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New tool integrated into APVI Live Solar Map, allows solar system owners to estimate how their PV generation will track over the rest of the day.

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Wind overtakes hydro as largest source of renewable energy as electricity sector emissions continue to fall and South Australia beats 50 per cent wind and solar share.

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Climate scientists ask Theresa May to make her "legacy" a target to cut greenhouse gases to zero.

A fungus has been genetically modified with spider venom to kill the mosquitoes that spread malaria.

Some 13,000 sq km removed from conservation areas since 1997, researchers say

Australian governments have slashed the legal protection of nature reserves in favour of business growth, a global study reveals.

The country is one of 73 dropping the ball on land protection, according to the study, which was published in the journal Science on Friday.

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The approval of the finch management plan will leave just one major hurdle, a groundwater-management plan, to be approved before construction can begin.

The Republican-controlled Ohio House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday to subsidise two nuclear plants slated to close in 2021, but the latest version of the legislation would eliminate the state’s renewable portfolio standard (RPS), which incentivises clean energy.

Over the past 18 months, a string of Asian countries have told Australia they'll no longer accept Australia's plastic waste for recycling.

AEMO sets out guidelines for solar register as it tries to capture detail of solar installations, which are heading to 56GW and will be biggest energy source in country.

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California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices rose this week amid increased buying after the most recent WCI auction fell within market participants’ expectations, while RGGI Allowance (RGA) dipped in front of their own quarterly sale.

Work related to groundwater research will need to be signed off as opponents say new government papers show mine is ‘not ready to go’

Adani will not be allowed to dig any coal from its Carmichael mine until it gets further federal government approval – despite the Coalition’s pre-election green light for parts of the project.

With Adani’s controversial project looming as a central issue in the federal election campaign, the Coalition made political capital in Queensland out of the decision in April by former environment minister Melissa Price to approve Adani’s groundwater management plans.

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India's re-elected prime minister has paved the way for Queensland coal to power Bangladesh. Quentin Beresford, Professor of Politics, Edith Cowan University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Thousands of years of history tells the same story over and over: you ignore soil at your peril. Anthony Dosseto, Associate Professor, University of Wollongong Alex Francke, Research Fellow, University of Wollongong Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

European carbon prices dipped in a quiet session on Thursday to remain locked in a narrowing channel, as the market braced for new allowance supply to mushroom next week.

Exported waste, intended for recycling, is being sent back to Canada by the Philippines.

While EU carbon’s increasingly rangebound trade is pointing to an impending breakout, more experts are breaking with those technical conventions and expecting prices to remain near current levels in the coming months.

My friend Walter Menzies, who has died of a brain tumour aged 69, made a profound contribution to the cause of sustainable development, driven by his fascination with people and places. He was a twinkly-eyed, mischievous, inspiring and determined doer. “Sustainable development is the only credible way of organising our environment, economy and society,” he stated uncompromisingly in a collection of 30 years of his writings.

He and I met when I was reporting for the Guardian in the north and he was chief executive of the Mersey Basin Campaign, a pioneering project set up by Michael Heseltine after the 1981 Toxteth riots. Heseltine wanted the river cleaned up. The campaign was so successful that fishermen caught cod across the river from Liverpool’s Pier Head and seals were seen lazing on sandbanks at Warrington.

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Day-to-day operation of the Rosalind Franklin Mars rover will be run out of a facility in Turin.

Exclusive: report reveals investment in the sector has halved in recent years

The number of jobs in renewable energy in the UK has plunged by nearly a third in recent years, and the amount of new green generating capacity by a similar amount, causing havoc among companies in the sector, a new report has found.

Prospect, the union which covers much of the sector, has found a 30% drop in renewable energy jobs between 2014 and 2017, as government cuts to incentives and support schemes started to bite. It also found investment in renewables in the UK more than halved between 2015 and 2017.

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