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Cleve Hill, the £450m project producing 350MW, expected to receive go-ahead this week

Britain’s largest solar farm, capable of generating enough clean electricity to power 91,000 homes, is poised to receive the greenlight from ministers this week.

The subsidy-free renewables park is expected to reach a capacity of 350MW by installing 880,000 solar panels – some as tall as buses – across 364 hectares (900 acres) of farmland in the Kent countryside.

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The World Bank Group has launched a request for proposals (RFP) to buy almost 200,000 carbon credits to offset the organisation's emissions.

Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken ready themselves and their kit for Wednesday's flight to the space station.

These are the key phases in the first crew mission to go to orbit from the US in nine years.

BBC News profiles the space travellers who will launch in SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule on Wednesday.

California legislators should include budget language requiring regulator ARB to hold a rulemaking to consider improvements to the state’s cap-and-trade scheme, including a mechanism to address the allowance oversupply, according to legislative staff recommendations. A Carbon Pulse subscription is required to read this content. Subscribe today to access our unrivalled news and intelligence, as well […]

Doctors on the front lines are observing things that they have never encountered before - and it's a challenge.

His colourful history included escaping from a zoo and a rumour he once belonged to Adolf Hitler.

• 17% of 91,000 US dams classified with ‘high hazard’ potential
• Neglected infrastructure in focus after Michigan dam failures

More than 15,000 dams in the US would likely kill people if they failed, and at least 2,300 of them are in poor or unsatisfactory condition, according to recent data from the federal government’s National Inventory of Dams.

Related: When the '500-year flood' hit Michigan, residents had to weigh risk of escape in a pandemic

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Risen Energy joins 5B, Tesla, Enphase, and software billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes in bid to power bushfire-affected communities with stand-alone solar and storage.

The post Risen joins bid to deliver solar and battery storage for bushfire victims appeared first on RenewEconomy.

BBC News answers questions about the first orbital launch of astronauts from US soil in nine years.

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Justin Rowlatt joins a team of scientists looking for small space rocks in Antarctica.

The loon, which is on Canada's dollar coin, and the eagle, America's national bird, fought to the death.

WCI regulated parties added to their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) positions ahead of the Q2 auction, while speculators slightly trimmed their futures and options holdings, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data.

More than 30 species, including nine that are threatened, are being hunted unsustainably, report finds

More than 30 shorebird species that fly across oceans each year to visit Australia – including nine that are threatened – are being hunted during their long migrations, according to a study that analysed decades of records from 14 countries.

The study, which experts said filled a major gap in the world’s knowledge about the impact of hunting on declining shorebird numbers, found that more than 17,000 birds from 16 species were likely being killed at just three sites – Pattani Bay in Thailand, West Java in Indonesia and the Yangtze River delta in China.

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A review panel finds no technical reason to delay the first US orbital crew launch in nine years.

European carbon prices have probably hit their coronavirus-triggered bottom as panic selling by emitters has failed to materialise, analysts said, though the market risks more downside from another wave of lockdowns.

Despite some fine words about the environmental crisis, ministers are pushing ahead with a trade bill that threatens to damage the planet

The dust storms that devastated the US prairie during the Great Depression were the worst ecological disaster in American history. They were also, partly, manmade. Decades of farming in the Great Plains had rid the topsoil of its native grass, leaving nothing to prevent fields crumbling to dust when drought struck in 1931. Across the Dust Bowl in midwest America, millions of acres of farmland were swept away in brown blizzards. Forced off the land, hungry families headed west in search of new jobs and lives. The dust blew so far east that it settled on the White House lawn.

Almost 90 years ago the US president’s response was not to lie about the scale of disaster or blame others. Instead, Franklin D Roosevelt launched one of his New Deal’s signature relief programmes: the Civilian Conservation Corps. Its mission was to put unemployed Americans to work. More than 3 million people planted 3bn trees, built shelter belts across the Great Plains to reduce the risk of dust storms, and created 700 state parks. FDR’s legacy survives, but his policy is venerated more in name than in deed.

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Ban on use of subcontractors and fines of €30,000 for slaughterhouses breaching new labour regulations a ‘historic moment’, say campaigners

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The German government has announced a series of reforms of the meat industry, including a ban on the use of subcontractors and fines of €30,000 (£26,000) for companies breaching labour regulations, as slaughterhouses have emerged as coronavirus hotspots.

A number of meat plants across the country have temporarily closed after hundreds of workers tested positive for Covid-19 in recent weeks.

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