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Tests show promising results against two cancer types but more research is needed, scientists say.

Margaret Atwood among those supporting Writers Rebel group set to protest in London

A number of famous novelists, poets and playwrights including Margaret Atwood and Zadie Smith have lent their support to an Extinction Rebellion campaign against the political influence of rightwing thinktanks fighting against climate action.

On Wednesday evening the Writers Rebel group will demonstrate outside 55 Tufton Street in London, a venue known to host meetings of thinktanks and lobbying outfits linked to climate science denial and the oil industry.

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Shipment from Amsterdam has been approved despite health concerns, FoI request reveals

Sewage sludge containing human waste from the Netherlands has been passed for import to the UK, to be used on farmland as fertiliser, despite concerns over the safety of its use.

Spreading the sludge on farmland is banned in the Netherlands, where incineration is preferred, but allowed in the UK. Dutch water authorities are eyeing the UK as a possible destination for their sewage, after problems at an Amsterdam incineration company left them lacking disposal options.

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Winners will be announced on 13 October at a virtual awards ceremony. The exhibition at the Natural History Museum will open on 16 October

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Five curlew fledglings are released near Lough Neagh after they were saved as eggs in late spring.

NERA offers seed funding for 'hydrogen technology clusters' to accelerate commercialisation and skills building within Australia's hydrogen industry.

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Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility backs 10MW solar and battery power station south of Darwin, and a neighbouring gas plant.

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Australia may be sailing perilously close to being cast by Biden’s team with other climate resisters Brazil and Saudi Arabia

This month the US Democrats wrapped up polling in Pennsylvania, a north-east industrial state that four years ago went to Donald Trump by 44,000 votes. Among other things the polling found that voters didn’t like Trump’s deregulation of methane. Voters supported a phasing out of fossil fuels.

This is happy news for Democrats given that Biden has already committed to impose “aggressive new methane limits” on gas and oil operations by presidential executive action on day one of his presidency. This was set out in his clean energy and environmental justice plan. It embraces decarbonisation as part of an economic rebuild.

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Victoria kicks off new VRET auction process that will take its own operations to 100% renewable and will seek 600MW of new solar and wind farms.

The post Victoria seeks 600MW wind and solar to power hospitals, schools and trains appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The ACT government will build the first all-electric hospital, allowing it to run entirely on renewable energy.

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Labor to oppose efforts by Coalition to push CEFC into fossil fuel projects, as energy minister Angus Taylor gets wires crossed on the corporation's gas investments.

The post Battle lines drawn over future of CEFC, as Taylor gets wires crossed on gas appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Four more electric vehicles are now available to Australian drivers, including the longer range Nissan Leaf, the Kia e-Soul, the Fiat 500e and Peugeot E208.

The post Four new electric cars are now available for Australia – as grey imports appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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BHP signs five year renewables deal with CleanCo that will deliver half of the power needs for its metallurgical coal mines in Queensland.

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Expansion of the so-called Tesla big battery at Hornsdale in South Australia is complete, and it will now begin to provide crucial inertia services to the grid.

The post Neoen completes expansion of Tesla big battery at Hornsdale appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Researchers in China saw big reductions in organisms that play a crucial role in recycling carbon and nitrogen

Microplastic pollution causes significant damage to populations of soil-dwelling mites, larvae and other tiny creatures that maintain the fertility of the land, research has found.

The study notes that discarded bags, cups, threads and other forms of plastic waste are concentrated more in the earth than the oceans, with similarly dire consequences for the abundance of species that live below the surface.

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The successful candidate will work as part of an experienced team, under the direction of the Air Resources Supervisor I, utilizing technical skills and scientific concepts to perform APS duties that include review, evaluation, and development of emissions calculation, reporting, and verification methods for use in a GHG reporting and verification program.

The Superb Lyrebird is famous for its song and dance, but what is less known is their extraordinary role as world-class ecosystem engineers. Alex Maisey, PhD Candidate, La Trobe University Andrew Bennett, Professor of Ecology, La Trobe University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Voluntary carbon offset prices are steady this year as demand largely keeps up, but the COVID-19 pandemic’s disproportionate impact on international air travel and changes to the global aviation offset mechanism CORSIA are exerting bearish pressure, a project developer said Tuesday.

RGGI market participants largely anticipate the September auction will settle underneath the secondary market, although aggressive compliance buying could potentially see the quarterly sale eclipse current price levels.