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The AbCF is seeking a multi-skilled Indigenous person to be based in Cairns with a proactive personality, who rolls up their sleeves and gets stuck into complex projects that often involve juggling multiple deliverables and working with many different stakeholders that require strategic ways of working and communicating.

Single-use plastic from take-out food is a big source of pollution in oceans and rivers, scientists say.

We must find a way to embrace shipping, the ocean and our place in the world without shackling ourselves to unpayable foreign debt

Growing up in Sri Lanka in the 1990s, it was drilled into me from an early age that my island was destined to be a maritime hub. At school, I was taught that Sri Lanka was once the heart of the maritime Silk Road, a network of trade routes that connected the east and west from 130BC to the mid-1400s.

My textbooks were filled with tales about how Sri Lanka’s strategic positioning and rich natural resources were so prized that it was consecutively colonised by the Portuguese, Dutch and British empires for almost four centuries.

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The 10-year-old was snorkelling at Five Finger Reef near Coral Bay when a two-metre bronze whaler bit him on the foot

A young boy has been flown to hospital after a shark bit him on the foot while he was snorkelling near Coral Bay in Western Australia.

The 10-year-old was attacked by a two-metre bronze whaler at Five Finger Reef, south of the remote town, about 11am on Friday, the state’s Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development said.

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The 58MW Crookwell 3 wind farm will go ahead in Goulburn after a power purchase agreement underpinning the project was signed by Telstra.

The post Telstra inks new wind farm PPA as it prepares to launch energy retail offer appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Tobias Geiger from Westwind talks about the challenges of bringing the country’s biggest wind project to market.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Australia’s biggest wind farm takes shape appeared first on RenewEconomy.

One cold winter doesn't negate more than a century of global warming. We need the political leadership to set the world on a safer path. Ill-informed tweets by government senators won't help. Nerilie Abram, Professor; ARC Future Fellow; Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; Deputy Director for the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, Australian National University Martin De Kauwe, Senior lecturer, UNSW Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Neoen delivers scathing review of ESB market reform proposals, saying they have been rushed and should be abandoned before doing more harm.

The post “Not worth the harm:” Neoen says ESB reforms should be abandoned appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Two massive offshore wind projects proposed for either side of Bass Strait, as the technology pipeline grows to more than 25GW in Australia.

The post Two massive offshore wind farms proposed for Bass Strait appeared first on RenewEconomy.

RenewEconomy launches its Offshore Wind Farm Map of Australia, the latest in a series of important map references for clean energy technology.

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Australia has huge pipeline of green hydrogen projects, but subsidies will be needed to bring cost down to targeted $A2 per kilogram.

The post Australia has 38GW of green hydrogen in pipeline, but major cost falls needed appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Developing nations put scientific research into sustainability than richer countries, a Unesco report finds.

An international group of scientists has called on Norway to halt plans for acoustic experiments on minke whales.

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Many petrol stations will close over the next 20 years, accelerating the shift to electric cars.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices continued their months-long bullish trend on the secondary market amid further financial inflows, as RGGI Allowance (RGA) values also rose throughout the week after the Q2 auction settled close to the $8.00 mark.

Bitcoin mining has formally entered its greenwashing phase. Things are getting messy, and they're going to get even messier - and we pay the price.

The post Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey are dead wrong: Bitcoin does not incentivise clean energy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The reservoir will be at its lowest since the 1930s when the Hoover dam was built, and officials expect levels to get worse

Levels in Lake Mead – the largest US reservoir by volume – fell to historic lows on Thursday, as the region continues to face the effects of a devastating prolonged drought.

Stationed on the main stem of the Colorado River in the Mojave along the Arizona-Nevada border, Lake Mead was formed with the construction of the Hoover dam, which generates electricity for areas in Arizona, California and Nevada. It provides water for urban, rural and tribal lands across the south-west.

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The four Transportation and Climate Initiative Programme (TCI-P) jurisdictions released a final Model Rule on Thursday for implementing the proposed regional US fuel sector cap-and-trade programme, making several changes to the scheme but keeping the overall regulatory structure largely intact from a previous draft.

Renewables form an ever-greater share of the electricity mix. But elsewhere in the energy sector – in transport, industry and buildings – emissions reduction is very slow. Hugh Saddler, Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University Frank Jotzo, Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.