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Wildlife photos: Squabbling mice top 'people's poll' award
Energy oligopoly using market power to profit under cover of rooftop solar
New data shows rooftop solar displacing coal power in NSW, but the big utilities have used their market power to also push more gas into the market and boost prices and profits.
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Conservative but green independent MP Zali Steggall could break the government’s climate policy deadlock
Australia’s least reliable coal generators are the oldest, and the youngest
Victoria's brown-coal generators account for most outages, but the main grid's newest coal generator proves to be the least reliable with the most breakdowns.
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Industry emissions surge to record high as “safeguard mechanism” fails
A new report by energy and carbon market analysts, RepuTex, indicates that emissions from Australia’s largest industrial facilities have surged to 60 per cent above 2005 levels.
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Wrecked Tesla Model X helps resurrect classic Cortina with electric makeover
Out of ruins of wrecked Model X has sprung forth an electric Cortina, resurrected to bring a classic car into modern age of electric mobility.
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“We’re out”: Big contractor dramatically quits Australian solar sector
Downer, one of the biggest contractors in the sector, dramatically quits solar construction business saying it is too hard and the risks too great.
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Wildlife photographer of the year: Lumix people's choice winner – in pictures
Sam Rowley’s Station Squabble, featuring a pair of mice fighting over a scrap of food at a London tube station, has been crowned winner of the wildlife photographer of the year: Lumix people’s choice award. The image, among 25 shortlisted for the competition, will be displayed in an exhibition at the Natural History Museum until 31 May
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Florida: $20,000 reward offered after two dolphins found stabbed or shot dead
- Officials say dolphins had what looked like bullet wounds
- Dead mammals found in waters off Naples and Pensacola
US federal authorities have offered a reward of up to $20,000 after two dolphins were found with gruesome and life-ending injuries along Florida’s Gulf coast in recent weeks.
Related: DDT and other banned chemicals pose threat to vulnerable dolphins on Great Barrier Reef
Continue reading...Rural sector US offset projects in need of further support, experts say
California, intervenors see no legal basis for DOJ lawsuit challenging ETS linkage
Virginia House passes RGGI bills with Democratic dissent
W.A. adds more Tesla “community batteries” to shared storage trial
Synergy and Western Power extend "shared storage" trial to two more W.A. suburbs, after initial Tesla community battery install proves a huge success.
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'Rosalind Franklin': Europe's Mars rover heads for fit checks
222 scientists say cascading crises are the biggest threat to the well-being of future generations
Amazon: Parts of rainforest 'emitting more CO2 than they absorb'
Climate activists must play leading role in COP26 talks, says Sturgeon
Campaigners concerned about lack of urgency over talks due to be hosted in Glasgow
Climate protesters and youth activists must play a leading role in the UN climate talks to be hosted in Glasgow this year, Nicola Sturgeon has said, as she vowed to find ways to include civil society more fully in the negotiations.
“It’s very important that we make sure COP26 is inclusive. I want a broad range of events to help ensure that everyone feels they have a part to play in this,” Scotland’s first minister said at a conference in London. “That’s the kind of movement we need to create around this, that can be a hugely powerful voice for change.”
Continue reading...Scottish study reveals 'significant long-term impact' of flooding
Stress, financial hardship and ill-health among lasting effects, researchers find
Chronic ill-health, loss of financial stability and anxiety brought on by heavy rainfall are just some of the enduring effects of flooding on individuals, according to the first UK study to examine the long-term impact on communities.
As the aftermath of Storm Ciara brings disruption to Scotland and the north of England, the report highlights the importance of ongoing support for flooded households and communities.
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