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The opposition has still produced nothing to back up its widely disputed claim that Australia could have an operational nuclear industry before the 2040s

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Journalists are obsessed with the new. We cast around every day to tell audiences something they don’t know. That’s the job.

Sometimes, when we get it right, we reveal information that’s substantial and deserves exposure and scrutiny. Sometimes we aim for a different type of revelation – one that comes from picking apart and giving context to claims that are demonstrably not true, but have been repeated so often they have become a regurgitated part of public debate. This fact-checking role can feel repetitive and, frankly, exhausting. But it’s also part of the job.

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Owner of the biggest wind farm in Western Australia says more than 1.7 GW of new capacity is planned across five different projects.

The post Owner of W.A.’s biggest wind farm eyes another 1.7 GW across five new projects appeared first on RenewEconomy.

With the release of the official Democratic platform on Sunday, both major US political parties have now made public they priorities regarding climate, energy, and the environment if they emerge victorious in the November presidential election, although both documents largely aligned with established party policy preferences.

Transmission giant expresses doubt about offshore wind, says big remote inland renewable zones away from population centres might be better idea.

The post Network giant says huge inland renewable zones might be better idea than floating offshore wind appeared first on RenewEconomy.

UK researchers hope swarms of up to 30 aircraft using AI could put out flames before they spread.

The Bolivian human rights agency has issued a statement in support of the vice presidency’s contest to a court decision that effectively legalised carbon trading in the country after a years-long prohibition.

US spacecraft company SpaceX launched a methane-detecting satellite on Friday that aims to track methane “super emitters” in partnership with a greenhouse gas-monitoring non-profit.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced Monday up to $127.5 million in federal funding to support the development of CO2 capture, removal, and conversion test centres for cement manufacturing facilities and power plants.

Numerous bills, including those that address CO2 removals (CDR) and the voluntary carbon market (VCM), have stalled in California’s legislature and do not appear likely to become law before the legislative session ends in August.

Just months after landing government support to keep its Eraring coal fired generator open, Origin cancels two solar projects due to "rising costs" and "unfavourable conditions".

The post Origin cancels two solar projects due to rising costs and “unfavourable conditions” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The test was carried out by a German firm who hope to launch the UK's first vertical rocket into orbit.

The New Zealand government will dramatically cut the volume of NZUs available at auction from next year, and will maintain the auction price floor, in line with the Climate Change Commission’s recommendations, it announced Tuesday.

Cities have a large and mostly untapped power source: the rooftops of commercial buildings. Bruce Mountain, Professor and Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Study finds ‘statistically significant association’ between exposure to fine particles in coalmine fire smoke and aging of lungs, equal to 4.7 years

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Retired secondary school teacher Howard Williams remembers watching “a gumtree literally explode from the heat”.

It was the beginning of the Hazelwood coalmine fire, which broke out on 9 February 2014 in the middle of a hot, dry summer.

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A handful of trades kept the voluntary carbon market ticking over last week, with the slim pickings mostly confined to low-volume deals, as brokers grow more inclined to promote two-way markets to attract corporate interest.

A handful of trades kept the voluntary carbon market ticking over last week, with the slim pickings mostly confined to low-volume deals, as brokers grow more inclined to promote two-way markets to attract corporate interest.

Germany’s coalition government has agreed a diminished draft budget for its national climate and energy transition fund for 2025, and attracted criticism for optimistic assumptions about emissions trading revenue.

They threaten our drinking water and refuse to budge. But non-lethal methods are the only advisable ways to deal with the infestation

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There are eight pigeons living on my shed roof. That itself is a small victory: it has taken two years, 60 metres of anti-bird mesh, daily patrolling for and disposing of eggs and countless hours running around waving a rake to get them out of the shed. They nested in our hay, ruining the top row of bales. They pooed on everything. When we purchased this property, we inherited piles of guano half a foot deep. We haven’t yet relaxed enough to remove the drop cloths.

Now the pigeons are sitting on the eaves, clogging up the gutters (which also supply our drinking water) with poo, and pooing in the stock troughs. When my horse was hospitalised with gastroenteritis, I blamed the pigeons until my vet said that while they do carry salmonella (wonderful!), Mickey would likely be much sicker if he’d caught something from them.

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A network of battery-backed mini solar farms installed on Australia's commercial and industrial rooftops could help usher out coal, and remove the need for big transmission upgrades.

The post Business power: Batteries and solar could help kick out coal with less new transmission, if price is right appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A carbon standard's biochar registry has received a conditional endorsement from the International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA), the industry trade group announced on Monday.