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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

The Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP) has an opening for a graduate-level, policy intern based in Washington, D.C or remote.

The Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP) has an opening for a graduate-level, policy intern based in Washington, D.C. 

CCAP is seeking a proactive, creative policy thinker with outstanding analytic ability capable of leading and innovating the organization’s carbon markets program.

Protesters block a road near Parliament and are planning a "walk of shame" near the Bank of England.

An more ambitious EU 2030 GHG reduction target makes sense amid the coronavirus crisis and is due to be proposed by the European Commission within weeks, the EU executive’s climate chief Frans Timmermans said on Tuesday, as lawmakers struggle to agree on how much higher the goal should be.

Swedish researchers measure the scale of peatlands, and the amount of carbon stored in them

How much of the Earth’s landmass is made of peat? We know that peatlands store as much as a quarter of all soil carbon, and if this were to be released we would face climate havoc. Until now, however, no one had made a comprehensive map of where peatlands occurred and how deep they were.

Related: Ultimate bogs: how saving peatlands could help save the planet

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Thousands of Extinction Rebellion protesters have descended on Parliament Square in London, leading to at least 90 arrests, as the group kicked off 10 days of civil disobedience to demand government action on the climate crisis.

• Police arrest dozens of Extinction Rebellion protesters in London
  

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The Climate Change Program Evaluation Branch of the Industrial Strategies Division has a position available for a motivated Air Pollution Specialist to conduct a variety of activities related to development, implementation, and analysis of the California Air Resources Board’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions programs, and principally California’s Cap-and-Trade Program (Program).

California regulator ARB voided nearly a third of the offsets from a Wisconsin-based livestock project under review on Tuesday after concluding the dairy digester was not in regulatory compliance.