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US-based private fund Climate Trust Capital (CTC) teamed with green group The Nature Conservancy to close its largest carbon credit deal for an improved forest management project in Maine.

Oil spill disaster reduced biodiversity in sites closest to spill, report finds, as White House rolls back conservation measures

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster may have had a lasting impact upon even the smallest organisms in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have found – amid warnings that the oceans around America are also under fresh assault as a result of environmental policies under Donald Trump.

Lingering oil residues have altered the basic building blocks of life in the ocean by reducing biodiversity in sites closest to the spill, which occurred when a BP drilling rig exploded in April 2010, killing 11 workers and spewing about 4m barrels of oil into the Gulf.

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Plants share resources using an underground network called the "Wood Wide Web".

In this extract from Rising, Elizabeth Rush explains ‘sunny day flooding’ – when a high tide can cause streets to fill with water

• Rising seas: ‘Florida is about to be wiped off the map’

I spend the afternoon in Shorecrest, a neighborhood a couple of miles north of downtown Miami. To get there I leave the beach behind and drive past Arky’s Live Bait & Tackle, Deal and Discounts II, Rafiul Food Store, Royal Budget Inn, Family Dollar and Goodwill. As I continue north, the buildings all lose their mirrored glass and their extra floors, until most are single story and made from stucco.

Related: Flooding from sea level rise threatens over 300,000 US coastal homes – study

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South Korea on Thursday released a revised 2030 roadmap for meeting its Paris obligations, scaling back the amount of international carbon credits it plans to buy and instead imposing tougher emission reduction goals on domestic industry.

The UK is falling short in efforts to cut emissions in non-ETS sectors, but should not resort to buying foreign offsets to help meet its binding targets, the country’s climate advisers said Thursday.

Failure to build energy-efficient homes and clean cars risks UK missing its carbon targets, says government’s climate adviser

The homebuilding and carmaking industries “should be ashamed” of their efforts to tackle global warming, according to the UK government’s official climate change adviser.

Lord Deben, chair of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), said housebuilders were “cheating” buyers with energy-inefficient homes and that motor companies were holding back the rollout of clean cars.

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Australia is uniquely placed to take a leading role in this transformation, with all the natural and human resources needed to build EVs from scratch.

Carnegie and Tag Pacific to merge EMC and MPower to create leading regional renewables, storage and microgrid specialist.

The development of energy storage technology not only plays an important role in energy saving and emission reduction, but also do jobs in wildlife protection in remote areas.

China's BYD starts work on 24GWh battery plant, to meet demand from "new boom" and its own production goal of 60GWh total capacity.

JA Solar today announced that it has been awarded the "Top Brand PV Seal 2018" from EuPD Research in Australia.

The NRMA has today launched in Newcastle, one of approximately 40 fast- charging electric vehicle stations to be rolled out across NSW and the ACT.

As federal Coalition votes to support One Nation push for new coal generator, the best argument against it may be installing more rooftop solar. If parliamentary democracy can't deliver rational outcomes, then maybe energy democracy can.

BHP transforms a V8 4WD true blue Aussie ute to electric drive to work at it giant underground mine, and cops some flak from the nay-sayers.

This is an important move for the PV industry in which enterprises tend to emerge through new factories and investments, leaving an insignificant role for acquisitions.

British scientists discover a way of taking human fingerprints off seized pangolin scales.

Changes to the Product Stewardship (Televisions and Computers) Regulations 2011 have been made, as part of the review of the Product Stewardship Act 2011. These minor amendments to the regulatory framework ensure the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme does not impose undue costs and is fairer to importers and manufacturers of television and computer products.

Windlab CEO says renewables industry better of with no National Energy Guarantee at all, than with a NEG hobbled by 26% emissions reduction target.

Latest version of major UN science report concludes the upper temperature goal of the Paris Agreement does not represent a climate safe zone.