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Gamers have completed 47 million mini-game tasks amounting to 36 years categorising cells.

The climate won’t wait for us to sort out coronavirus, but rich people are still destroying it

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In wake of Covid, leading figures call for bold green measures to boost economy

World leaders are running out of time to forge a green recovery from the Covid-19 crisis, with only a year to go before a crunch UN summit that will decide the future of the global climate, leading experts have warned.

Progress on a green recovery, which would reduce emissions while repairing the damage from the pandemic, has been hampered by the need for an emergency rescue of stricken economies around the world and the resurgence of the coronavirus in Europe, the US and some other countries.

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Life-cycle assessments of food packaging often omit the impact and possible toxicity of plastics leaking into the environment. Excluding these factors gives plastics an unjustified advantage. Trisia Farrelly, Senior Lecturer, Massey University Hannah Blumhardt, Senior Associate at the Institute of Governance and Policy Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Takunda Y Chitaka, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of the Western Cape Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Rabobank is looking for a Senior Manager, Climate Risk to join its Enterprise Risk Management Team on a full-time permanent basis and will be responsible for embedding climate change risk within Rabobank Region Australia, New Zealand.

This is a position within a small dedicated team to lead audits and investigations to verify compliance with the ETS requirements.

Liberal MP says there is ‘real concern’ if the Coalition signed up for the net zero commitment as the PM continues to field questions on climate policy

Scott Morrison says Australia would like to achieve a net zero emissions reduction ambition “as quickly as possible” – but one of his own backbenchers has declared signing up to net zero would be an act of “political suicide”.

The Australian prime minister has faced sustained questions about the government’s climate commitments since Joe Biden was projected as the winner of the American presidential election at the weekend.

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NZ MPI has two fixed term opportunities for Operations Analysts to join our Climate Change Operations team and support the forestry aspects of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and the Permanent Forest Sink Initiative (PFSI).

Goldwind inks deal with TransGrid for the connection and construction of connection assets for 79-turbine Coppabella Wind Farm.

The post Coppabella wind farm set for construction in NSW after deal with Transgrid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The defeat of Donald Trump and the green push by NSW leaves Scott Morrison virtually friendless - at home and abroad - in his resistance to zero emissions targets.

The post With Trump defeated, Morrison is now friendless at home and abroad on climate and energy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The reaction to New South Wales' $32bn renewable energy plan has been swift and overwhelmingly positive, from all sides of industry and the political spectrum. Well, almost...

The post Renewables industry rejoices as Australia’s biggest electricity state goes green appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia’s new chief scientist, Cathy Foley, says climate change is a problem with "no single solution," and one of the world's greatest challenges.

The post New chief scientist says climate change has “no single solution” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

NSW becomes the latest state to embrace price guarantees for clean energy projects, and the Berejiklian government sees them as key to lower energy prices.

The post Wind, solar and storage “price guarantee” key to lower costs for developers and consumers appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Independent MP Zali Steggall on Monday was set to introduce a bill that would commit Australia to net zero emissions by 2050 just as international focus on the nation’s climate policy is increasing after Joe Biden’s election win.

The long delayed Sunraysia solar farm receives its registration from the market operator and will begin production this week.

The post Sunraysia solar farm lands registration, to begin production Tuesday appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The "sci-fi" travel concept involves travelling in pods inside vacuum tubes at very high speeds.

The government is committed to building nuclear power stations to decarbonise the UK's electricity.

Tilt gets green light to lift output at Dundonnell wind farm, as it also nears decision on its first big battery investment in South Australia.

The post Dundonnell wind farm gets green light to expand, loose bolts blamed for blade fall appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Retailers are increasingly using AI to try to predict and encourage what customers purchase.

How the Indian government launched ‘Project Tiger’ to save the animals from extinction