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World-first CO2 removal auction fetches average price higher than EU ETS
School students walk out in global climate strike
Three more die on Everest amid overcrowding near summit
Utility AGL biggest earner in Australia’s latest offset issuance
Severe water shortages looming for central and western NSW towns
Lift off for SpaceX rocket carrying 60 satellites
Adani approvals could be granted within weeks as Palaszczuk sets deadline
Queensland Premier issues expedited deadline for Adani environmental approvals, just days after company reaches agreement on water contamination breaches
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On the arsonist’s trail: inside Australia’s worst bushfire catastrophe
One day in 2009, fires swept across Victoria, leaving 173 dead. It became known as Black Saturday. When it emerged that not all of these disasters were natural, local detectives sprang into action. By Chloe Hooper
The patient had been in a coma for 12 days. Strange dreams were all he could remember. He dreamed he was in a red room, then a green room, and when, finally, he woke, the walls were orange. There was flame even in the paint colour, and he knew without being told that his wife was dead. He checked his hands and was surprised to find that his fingers – put back together now, bandaged – had been saved.
His children sat next to his bed while a young police officer had positioned his chair further away, towards the back of the hospital room. All of them were waiting to hear what had happened to him two weeks earlier, on the day of Australia’s worst recorded natural disaster. It would become known as Black Saturday: 400 separate fires had burned across the southern Australian state of Victoria, giving off as much energy as 1,500 atomic bombs.
Continue reading...Albo and the Green New Deal: Sounds like a name for a band, but is it good policy?
Labor under Anthony Albanese may look overseas in its search for a way to re-engage voters on climate change, and rebrand its policy suite.
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SpaceX puts up 60 internet satellites
How serious is Queensland about its 50 per cent renewable energy target?
"Crazy" new laws, along with delays to auctions and grid upgrades, is raising question about how serious the Queensland Labor government is about its 50% renewables target.
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How I discovered the Dalveen Blue Box, a rare eucalypt species with a sweet, fruity smell
As the dust of the election settles, Australia's wildlife still needs a pathway for recovery
Adani coalmine environmental approvals given three-week deadline
New timeframe for controversial Carmichael mine is ‘good news’, Queensland premier says
The Queensland government has placed a three-week deadline on the final environmental approvals for the controversial Adani Carmichael coalmine in Queensland’s Galilee Basin.
The assessment and management plan for the endangered black-throated finch is due next week, on 31 May, and a decision on the groundwater management plan is due on 13 June.
Continue reading...WA taps into boom for raw materials for EV and storage batteries
WA is set to capitalise on rapid growth in demand for battery storage, with a surge in exploration activity for raw battery materials.
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Latest global school climate strikes expected to beat turnout record
Organisers say more than 1.4 million young people are set to protest about the climate crisis
Hundreds of thousands of children and young people are walking out of lessons around the world on Friday as the school strike movement continues to snowball.
Climate strikes are planned in more than 1,400 cities in more than 110 countries. Organisers say the number of young people taking part is set to top the 1.4 million people who participated in the global day of strikes in March.
Continue reading...'Elusive and cryptic lizard': hunt on in Melbourne for endangered grassland earless dragon
Newly discovered species could soon be the first reptile on the Australian mainland to be declared extinct
A newly reclassified species of lizard that is native to areas now paved by Melbourne’s suburbs could become the first reptile on mainland Australia to be declared extinct.
A taxonomic survey of the grassland earless dragon, published in the Royal Society Open Science journal this week, discovered that the species classified as Tympanocryptis pinguicolla was in fact four species – one of which has not been seen since 1969.
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Japan switches on first new geothermal power plant in 23 years
Japan's 46MW Wasabizawa Geothermal Power Plant begins commercial operation, marking its first new large-scale geothermal power station in 23 years.
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Twin Creek wind farm and Australia’s biggest battery edge closer to approval
RES Australia plans for 183MW wind farm and a big battery in South Australia edge closer to reality, despite ongoing local opposition and concern about "extra frosts".
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