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Report finds while 28 electric models are now on sale, including eight below $65,000, market share is still only 0.6% of new car sales

Sales of electric vehicles in Australia tripled in 2019 despite a lack of government support, according to the industry’s peak body.

The country’s network of electric vehicle charging stations was also growing, the Electric Vehicle Council’s annual report found, including a rise in the number of faster charging stations that let drivers recharge a car in about 15 minutes.

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UK National Oceanography Centre, which studied waters between Britain and Falklands, says action needed urgently

More than 10 times as much plastic has been found in the Atlantic ocean than previously estimated to be there, showing the the world’s plastic problem is likely to be much greater than realised.

New measurements of the top 200m of the Atlantic found between 12 and 21 million tonnes of microscopic particles of three of the most common types of plastic, in about 5% of the ocean. That would indicate a concentration in the Atlantic of about 200 million tonnes of these common plastics.

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The American Forest Foundation is seeking a highly motivated candidate for its Family Forest Carbon Program (FFCP) account manager position. The role can be based either in the NGO's Washington DC office or remote. The application deadline is Sep. 20.

EUAs continued to edge higher early on Tuesday, with a stronger auction and buoyant energy complex helping to consolidate the previous session's gains.

China’s Hubei province will issue 270 million CO2 allowances to its ETS participants for 2019, according to its newly released allocation plan, a significant jump from previous years as more than 30 new emitters are being brought into the scheme.

Crew members say there was a birthday party on the ship the day it ran aground, according to police.

The existential emergencies we face require a wholesale reimagining of how we live, work and play in urban spaces

It’s often been said that we’re living through an unprecedented moment. But in city centres, the coronavirus crisis has merely accelerated trends that have been unfolding for some time. In Leeds, where I live, many major banks and building societies, cinemas, shops and department stores declined or disappeared as society shifted online. The pandemic has caused the job market to contract, and many more people are now working from home. But in cities across the country, traditional office spaces have long been shrinking, as technology reduces the need for face-to-face contact and a growing number of self-employed people opt for co-working spaces.

Despite the economic boom that some UK cities have experienced in the last 20 years, the centre of Leeds, like many other city centres, has not yet recovered from industrial decline. Vacated banking halls have supplied glamorous homes for bars and restaurants in regeneration areas, and housing has returned to the centre, albeit in the limited form of small apartments and poorly designed student accommodation. But the continuing trend of “meanwhile use” and sprawling ground-level car parks across the city are evidence that supply still exceeds demand.

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Musicians, historians and literary scholars hope to find a soundtrack to the world of the Vikings.

The speedy Somali sengi had been lost to science until an expedition to Djibouti

A mouse-sized elephant shrew that had been lost to science for 50 years has been discovered alive and well in the Horn of Africa.

The Somali sengi mates for life, can race around at 30km/h and sucks up ants with its trunk-like nose. But it had not been documented by researchers since 1968.

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Researchers say their findings allow for a "better-informed judgment" of the birds.

The last scientific record of the "lost species" of elephant shrew was in the 1970s.

A former Abbott business adviser, who once called for Snowy Hydro to privatised, and who has been a trenchant critic of wind and solar, has been appointed to the Snowy Hydro board.

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Bioluminescent plankton light up the waves at Fountainstown Beach, just south of Cork City.

A draft of the updated Reef 2050 Long-Term Sustainability Plan has been released for public comment. The six-week public consultation period closes on 30 September 2020.

Developers behind huge mobile games are encouraging players to think about the environment.

Investment in new wind, solar and storage projects slumps again in second quarter, due to growing grid problems and lack of federal policy.

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A mesh-metal tower used to measure wind conditions at the proposed Delburn wind farm in Victoria has been toppled in an incident being investigated by police.

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Goldwind Australia to consider use of biofuels, or hydrogen, to fuel new hybrid gas project that has received NSW government backing.

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It may represent the world's fastest energy transition, but is AEMO's step change scenario to 94% really such a stretch target?

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WA government calls for proposals for 'carbon for conservation' projects, that help protect national parks while storing carbon.

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