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Federal government's HomeBuilder package slammed as “wasted opportunity” to push for basic efficiency measures that could slash living costs and emissions at the same time.

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Energy Transition Hub under threat of closure as union calls on Melbourne University to back climate and clean energy issues, and stop taking funds from fossil fuel industry.

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Pangolins are illegally traded, linked to the coronavirus pandemic and driven to extinction in some areas. That's why it's vital to reintroduce this threatened species back into the wild. Alexander Richard Braczkowski, Research Associate, Griffith University Christopher O'Bryan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland Duan Biggs, Senior Research Fellow Social-Ecological Systems & Resilience, Griffith University Raymond Jansen, Professor: Zoology & Ecology, Tshwane University of Technology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Blueprint Institute, co-founded by former Coalition ministerial advisors and backed by ex-LNP ministers, calls for renewables investment to be central to post-Covid recovery.

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That very sunny place, Great Britain, sourced 11.5 per cent of its grid demand from solar in the month of May, and burned no coal. Contrast with Australia.

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The proposed 2,000MW Star of the South project – what would be Australia’s first offshore wind farm – says it can cover the loss of an early exit of Yallourn, one of Victoria’s three remaining brown coal generators. Yallourn was not scheduled to close until around 2032, although the Australian Energy Market Operator has now...

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Sales of fossil fuel cars plunged again in Australia last month, but plug-in and hybrid sales increased, pointing to fundamental change in the market.

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California legislators included a cap-and-trade rulemaking requirement in a final version of the state’s budget on Wednesday after the Senate and Assembly reached an agreement on the proposal.

Basin communities can now access the science behind how and why water is being used to benefit the environment with the launch of a new public website.

Basin communities can now access the science behind how and why water is being used to benefit the environment with the launch of a new public website.

Russia's President Putin declares a state of emergency after 20,000 tonnes of oil leak into a river.

Campaigners demand the government prioritises the environment in any post-Covid-19 stimulus package.

Mounting opposition could sink a California budget proposal to require a cap-and-trade rulemaking by next year, while more moderate legislators could also soften the provision to limit its long-term impact, a source told Carbon Pulse.

EUAs held above €22 after hitting a seven-week high on Wednesday, consolidating the previous session's strong gains even as the energy complex failed to support the move.

A combination of compliance waivers under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and significant fuel demand destruction from the coronavirus pandemic this year could sink US biofuel credit prices by swelling the surplus bank, a consultancy said Wednesday.

Older records can tell us a lot about Australia's pre-industrial climate, before the large-scale burning of fossil fuels tainted global temperature records. Joelle Gergis, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Australian National University Linden Ashcroft, Lecturer in climate science and science communication, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

President lambasts power plant owner ‘for not reporting earlier’ incident bigger than Kerch spill

Vladimir Putin has ordered a state of emergency after 20,000 tonnes of diesel fuel spilled into a river inside the Arctic Circle.

The spill occurred when a fuel reservoir at a power plant near the city of Norilsk collapsed on Friday.

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Imposing a border carbon adjustment to EU imports cannot be combined with continued free EU ETS allocations for affected sectors, the EU’s top trade official Sabine Weyand said on Wednesday.

The judgment against the agency could lead to forestry operations being assessed under national environmental laws for the first time in 20 years

A landmark court judgment that a government forestry agency repeatedly breached conservation regulations has sparked calls for a review of an industry-wide exemption for logging under national environment laws.

Last week the federal court found VicForests, a body owned by Victorian taxpayers, breached a code of practice in a regional forestry agreement (RFA) between the federal and state governments covering the state’s central highlands.

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