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A bright spot in a dark year: Australia's main grid reaches 25 per cent share of renewable energy over the last 12 months.

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Wind and solar have upped their share of the market over the past month. And there's another 7GW to be added.

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After the Black Summer bushfires, heavy rains extinguished many fires but turned high quality water in our rivers to sludge. This is how we better prepare for next time. Paul McInerney, Research scientist, CSIRO Anu Kumar, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Gavin Rees, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Klaus Joehnk, Principal research scientist, CSIRO Tapas Kumar Biswas, Senior scientist, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

New report finds transitioning Western Australia to 90% renewables by 2030 would create an average of 5,000 jobs a year – even during an economic slump.

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The department is looking to fill climate policy-making roles in the Climate Change Division and the International Climate and Technology Division.

The Clean Energy Regulator is looking for an analyst/modeller to contribute to analysis and provide insights into key trends in the renewable energy and carbon markets.

Australian Energy Market Commission delays decision on rule change request seeking to establish a framework for a minimum technical standard for rooftop solar.

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A big chunk of ice breaks away from the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf - 79N, or Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden.

Polestar 2 leaps into third place in Norway's new car sales in first month of deliveries, just behind the Audi E-tron and the electric Mercedes.

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Garden Island micro-grid plagued by teething issues and panel failures, and has now been disconnected because of major work at the naval base.

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We should paint more wind turbines black but mainly to find out how birds respond to them.

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The head of the industry body is urging government to create new green jobs to lift productivity.

UK government said it failed on two-thirds of targets, but RSPB analysis is bleaker – and suggests UK is moving backwards in some areas

The UK has failed to reach 17 out of 20 UN biodiversity targets agreed on 10 years ago, according to an analysis from conservation charity RSPB that says the gap between rhetoric and reality has resulted in a “lost decade for nature”.

The UK government’s self-assessment said it failed on two-thirds of targets (14 out of 20) agreed at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya, Japan, in 2010, but the RSPB analysis suggests the reality is worse. On six of the 20 targets the UK has actually gone backwards. The government’s assessment published last year said it was not regressing on any target.

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The European Commission will propose raising the EU's 2030 emissions reduction target to “at least 55%”, while exploring a one-off supply cut as a way of aligning the ETS with the new goal, according to a leaked draft due to be presented over the coming days.

Solar power contributes 94 per cent of South Australia's state demand at midday on Sunday, as state government looks to use electric vehicles as a "solar sponge".

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New thinking is needed because of economic turmoil since 2008 and environmental concerns

For years, those on the left in Britain have been arguing that the government should be more aggressive in its use of state aid to revitalise those parts of the country affected by industrial blight.

Now, at last, we have ministers prepared to have a bare-knuckled fight with the EU over their right to intervene on behalf of those living where the factories and the coalmines used to be, but they grew up as disciples of Margaret Thatcher, who insisted that tough state aid rules be included in the rules for the single market. Ah the irony of it!

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Blockading newspapers may cross a line for some, but is the PM a bigger criminal?

My old university friend, the American geographer William Dyer, accepted my Skype call at a research station on the pebble shores of the Antarctic Sound. Once, it would have been too remote to receive messages and yet here I was, laughing at the Sub Pop Records baseball cap that fixed him temporally and culturally. Will had wanted to be free, free to do what he wanted to do. And he had wanted to get loaded and have a good time. But Will, a better man than I, discovered a conscience. And now he was watching ice melt.

Will had been the first person to tell me about climate change, one long whiskey night in 1986, but the idea that the world was warming was absurd, just like his claim that one day we would piggyback on a worldwide military computer network to communicate face to face. And yet here we were doing just that and Will was in a shrinking southern ice field documenting exactly the kind of destruction I had doubted.

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The government is urged to do more to get people to wear reusable, washable face coverings.

From the Strait of Gibraltar to Galicia, orcas have been harassing yachts, damaging vessels and injuring crew

Scientists have been left baffled by incidents of orcas ramming sailing boats along the Spanish and Portuguese coasts.

In the last two months, from southern to northern Spain, sailors have sent distress calls after worrying encounters. Two boats lost part of their rudders, at least one crew member suffered bruising from the impact of the ramming, and several boats sustained serious damage.

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Europe is a far more important export market for the UK, as business leaders know – bigger even than the US

There was a consistent message from business leaders to international trade secretary Liz Truss’s claims that she had signed a “historic” deal with Japan to lower tariffs and gain access to previously restricted markets.

Thank you, they said, but could you please sign a deal with the EU because that is our most important export market.

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