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The 256mw Kiamal solar farm - the biggest solar project in Victoria, and one of the most heavily delayed in the country - finally sending power to the grid.

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A 75MW solar farm and big battery planned for near Toongabbie in Victoria will go ahead after being waved through the approvals process by the state government.

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People living in the Brazilian Amazon are facing the twin dangers of the coronavirus and forest fires.

The best performing wind farms in Australia in August all had capacity factors of more than 50%, and all located in and around electorate of federal energy minister.

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Sea and airborne surveys show how Antarctica's mighty Thwaites ice stream can be melted from below.

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Record-setting California temperatures increased the deployment of CO2-emitting electricity generation through the first week of September, though the recent heatwave has yielded few impacts on California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices.

Malabar Resources has won state government approval to build a 25MW solar farm on a former open cut coal mine in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales.

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Covid may temporarily cut emissions, but the world will still likely blow past the carbon budget for a 1.5-degree future in 2028.

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Green hydrogen could help slash the long-term carbon footprint of global air travel in the coming years, while more stringent carbon abatement targets and a decreased reliance on traditional biofuels will also be necessary to increase the pace of emissions reductions, a conference session heard Tuesday.

Claim drove hundreds of thousands of people to search remote corners of US, sometimes with tragic consequences

Antiquities dealer and author Forrest Fenn, who gained fame after claiming to have hidden a treasure chest filled with gold, jewels and other valuables that drove hundreds of thousands of people to search remote corners of the US west for the riches – sometimes with tragic consequences – has died. He was 90.

Police confirmed Fenn died on Monday of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Energy company will provide car, charging station as well as insurance and registration for flat fee, as research points to upfront cost as deterrent

AGL, one of Australia’s largest energy companies, has launched the country’s first subscription service for electric cars in a move that the EV industry hopes may boost the nation’s low uptake rate.

The company announced a pilot phase for the new scheme, which also includes installation of charging stations at customers’ homes, to cover Sydney and Melbourne.

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The EU carbon market might not be the best policy for cutting road transport emissions but it could be more useful for the shipping sector, the bloc’s climate chief Frans Timmermans said Tuesday.

We have a deep connection with this bird, and it is finally shaking off its reputation as a symbol of darkness

Of all the world’s birds, the raven has the deepest connection with humankind. It was the first bird mentioned in the Bible, sent out by Noah to search for land. Ravens are central to Norse and Native American mythologies, as symbols of wisdom as well as agents of prophecy. And they feature prominently in literary works from Chaucer, via Edgar Allen Poe, to Game of Thrones.

Whenever I see a raven flying above my Somerset home, uttering that deep, guttural call, I feel the weight of that long connection between bird and human. But I also feel a sense of hope; for in recent times, the raven has finally begun to shake off its reputation as a symbol of darkness.

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You will be a key member of our team assessing companies and financial institutions on climate change. This part of our work has had a major impact on the global climate agenda so far and we are expanding our coverage of industry sectors, policy areas and geographies. You will work within teams focused on the Corporate Lobbying and FinanceMap work streams and report to a Director or Program Manager in one of these teams.

About half of environmental scientists working for government had been prohibited from communicating scientific information. Don Driscoll, Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University Bob Pressey, Professor and Program Leader, Conservation Planning, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University Euan Ritchie, Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Noel D Preece, Adjunct Asssociate Professor, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Methane is a live-fast, die-young greenhouse gas but its impact on the climate can last for hundreds or even thousands of years Zebedee Nicholls, PhD Researcher at the Climate & Energy College, University of Melbourne Tim Baxter, Fellow - Melbourne Law School; Senior Researcher - Climate Council; Associate - Australian-German Climate and Energy College, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Specific groups the Business Development Manager will work with include offset project developers, voluntary and compliance buyers, corporate representatives, other participants in the carbon market, associations, fellow environmental nonprofits and other players in carbon reduction initiatives.

European carbon prices slid along with the wider energy and equity markets on Tuesday, flirting with yesterday's two-week low as increased supply from the daily auctions weighs heavier.

A third of government and industry-employed ecologists and conservation scientists had work unduly modified, study finds

Australian scientists say they are prevented from speaking openly about their work and their advice is being suppressed by government and industry when it comes to the impact of logging, mining, land-clearing and the climate crisis, new research suggests.

A study by the Ecological Society of Australia, published in the journal Conservation Letters, surveyed 220 scientists across government, industry and academia on the extent to which their work had been suppressed.

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