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Rio Tinto, BHP and BlueScope collaboration on making iron ore suitable for processes that don’t use coal, it's becoming even clearer carbon capture and storage will not play a meaningful role in steel decarbonisation.

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Solar for Apartments aims to help around 5,000 apartment owners and renters to install rooftop solar by addressing two key barriers to uptake: cost and complexity.

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Snowy Hydro CEO says boring machine Florence needs to tunnel about 15 metres a day to keep Snowy 2.0 on track and says a fourth boring machine could be on the cards if the going gets tough again.

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Survey respondents overwhelmingly prioritised saving a human life – even if that person had been repeatedly told to evacuate and even if, as a consequence, a snail or shrub species became extinct. John Woinarski, Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University Stephen Garnett, Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Sea-bird counts after avian flu show serious declines in three species, the charity RSPB says.

Sea bird counts after avian flu show serious declines in three species, the charity RSPB says.

A Tokyo-based sustainable investment platform has teamed up with a technology and advisory firm to launch what they say will be Japan’s first investment fund for nature-based carbon credits, with a target size of 10 billion yen ($67 million).

A UK pesticide producer did not look at key health records in its Parkinson's study, legal papers show.

An Australian environmental group has received federal government funding to train AI models how to accurately recognise and identify up to 120 native species.

World must spend at least $A18 trillion on renewables and the grid to meet climate targets, and most can come from scrapping fossil fuel plans.

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Report by RSPB and British Trust for Ornithology finds H5N1 has killed three-quarters of great skua and 25% of northern gannets

The UK has lost more than three-quarters of its great skuas on surveyed sites since bird flu struck, according to the first report quantifying the impact of H5N1 on seabird populations.

The deaths have happened over two years, since the outbreak of H5N1 in 2021. The UK is internationally important for seabirds, home to most of the world’s 16,000 pairs of nesting great skuas.

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Government plans to deliver SMRs ‘lack clarity’ say environmental committee, and will likely fail to meet clean-energy goal of 2035

MPs have warned that a planned fleet of small nuclear reactors are unlikely to contribute to hitting a key target in decarbonising Britain’s electricity generation, as the government opened talks to buy a site in Wales for a new power station.

The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) said that ministers’ approach to developing factory-built nuclear power plants “lacks clarity” and their role in hitting a goal of moving the grid to clean energy by 2035 was unclear.

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At least three homes in Dana Point, California are under threat after a portion of the cliff they're on gave way.

At least three homes in Dana Point, California are under threat after a portion of the cliff they're on gave way.

Meeting the global goal to triple renewable energy by 2030 will cost $2 trillion per year on average, including $100 billion per year in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to research published on Tuesday.

EUAs are the worst-performing regional energy commodity of the year to date, as prices have buckled under a lack of demand and the weight of selling pressure by speculative investors and utilities alike.

The Alberta Technology and Emission Reduction (TIER) programme published on Monday over a dozen updated benchmarks, tightening allowable emissions levels and raising compliance obligations through to 2030 across multiple sectors.

RGGI allowance (RGA) values retreated amidst high transaction volumes heading into the first auction of the year, following three weeks of unprecedented record prices and lower activity.

Coalition Senators flag concerns that Chinese inverters used in solar panels, batteries and EVs pose threat of foreign interference.

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced Monday funding of up to $100 million towards pilot-scale testing in the development of commercially viable CO2 removal technologies.