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Australia risks becoming dumping ground for world's worst polluting vehicles because of absence of fuel and vehicle efficiency standards, according to BloombergNEF.

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Hazelwood's eight smokestacks brought down by controlled explosions, as decommissioning of one of world's dirtiest coal plants reaches new milestone.

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Sun Cable proposes 100MW/200MWh big battery for Darwin, to lower costs and make local grid more reliable, as precursor for world's biggest solar and storage project.

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Huge spinning machines arrive in South Australia to herald the demise of the state's gas generators, and lay the pathway to 100 per cent renewables.

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Survey suggests British motorists are ready to change their behaviour to protect the environment.

Film-maker Chris Lewis has captured a blaze of red dust covering a beach in Geraldton, Western Australia, as ex-Tropical Cyclone Mangga batters the southern part of the state. Lewis said the dust had travelled 'hundreds of kilometres away' to meet the sea. The ex-tropical cyclone has damaged homes and left thousands without power

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• Entire Western Australia coast to be battered by 'once-in-a-decade' storm
  

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Researchers have discovered an alarming new threat to one of the most incredible wildlife migrations on Earth. Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Tilt Renewables adds three new big battery projects in Victoria to its development portfolio as it seeks its own "firming" options that will offer better value than market contracts.

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Over the weekend a low-pressure system hung over Sydney which created swells of up to 10 meters. Daredevils headed to ocean pools and beaches to take advantage of the wild weather

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Siemens Gamesa secures a 30-year, full-scope contract to service Senvion turbines at the Murra Warra wind farm in Victoria, Australia.

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After spending most of their lives in the soil, periodical cicadas will come out in three US states.

Bullet trains are back on the agenda. But a new analysis shows that rather than helping cut emissions, such a project would drive them up for at least 24 years. Greg Moran, Senior Associate, Grattan Institute Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Bushfires and Covid-19 highlight connection between human health and natural world, states letter by almost 200 doctors and scientists

Leading health professionals, including a Nobel laureate and a former Australian of the Year, say the government must put human health “front and centre” in a new generation of environment laws in the aftermath of the Covid-19 and bushfire crises.

The Nobel prize-winning immunologist Peter Doherty and the epidemiologist and former Australian of the Year Fiona Stanley are among 180 professionals who have warned the government that Australia’s “failing” environmental laws will fuel further public health crises.

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The Grade I-listed Megalosaurus statue has been in Crystal Palace Park since the Victorian era.

Cleve Hill, the £450m project producing 350MW, expected to receive go-ahead this week

Britain’s largest solar farm, capable of generating enough clean electricity to power 91,000 homes, is poised to receive the greenlight from ministers this week.

The subsidy-free renewables park is expected to reach a capacity of 350MW by installing 880,000 solar panels – some as tall as buses – across 364 hectares (900 acres) of farmland in the Kent countryside.

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The World Bank Group has launched a request for proposals (RFP) to buy almost 200,000 carbon credits to offset the organisation's emissions.

Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken ready themselves and their kit for Wednesday's flight to the space station.

These are the key phases in the first crew mission to go to orbit from the US in nine years.

BBC News profiles the space travellers who will launch in SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule on Wednesday.

California legislators should include budget language requiring regulator ARB to hold a rulemaking to consider improvements to the state’s cap-and-trade scheme, including a mechanism to address the allowance oversupply, according to legislative staff recommendations. A Carbon Pulse subscription is required to read this content. Subscribe today to access our unrivalled news and intelligence, as well […]