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New report out of America’s Stanford University finds that adding carbon capture and storage technology to coal plants could have worse pollution outcomes than having none at all.

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Even species we see every day are sliding towards endangerment due to habitat loss

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Across parts of Australia, vast areas of native vegetation have been cleared and replaced by our cities, farms and infrastructure. When native vegetation is removed, the habitat and resources that it provides for native wildlife are invariably lost.

Our environmental laws and most conservation efforts tend to focus on what this loss means for species that are threatened with extinction. This emphasis is understandable – the loss of the last individual of a species is profoundly sad and can be ecologically devastating.

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Most coal plants in Europe facing massive losses because they cannot compete with wind and solar, and will require massive subsidies to stay open.

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The review will be led by Professor Graeme Samuel AC, supported by a panel of experts. A report will be presented to the Minister for the Environment within 12 months of commencement of the review.

The review will be led by Professor Graeme Samuel AC, supported by a panel of experts. A report will be presented to the Minister for the Environment within 12 months of commencement of the review.

Offshore wind is following solar P down the cost curve and could become next trillion dollar industry, with potential to exceed global demand for electricity.

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Leeton Shire Mayor Paul Maytom speaks with RN Breakfast on the need for a long-term plan on drought, linking drought policy and water reform to future climate change.

The Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley will today announce a review of the nation's environmental laws, as conservation scientists warn of an "extinction crisis".

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices would decline amid reduced demand if the Trump Administration’s suit challenging the WCI linkage with Quebec spurs a bifurcated market, according to analysts.

Aside from their intrinsic value, common bird species might be one of the only ways we connect with nature in our everyday lives. But these opportunities are under threat. Jeremy Simmonds, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Conservation Science, The University of Queensland Alvaro Salazar, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland James Watson, Professor, The University of Queensland Martine Maron, ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Healthier food choices almost always benefit environment as well, according to analysis

Eating healthy food is almost always also best for the environment, according to the most sophisticated analysis to date.

The researchers said poor diets threaten society by seriously harming people and the planet, but the latest research can inform better choices.

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Tens of thousands of people in California have been ordered to evacuate their homes as wildfires spread over the weekend. The Kincade fire in Sonoma County doubled in size on Sunday because of high winds, and wildfires broke out in Los Angeles near the J Paul Getty Museum. About 200,000 people are under evacuation orders across the state and millions are without power.

• California wildfires: millions without power as Kincade fire spreads – live

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A super telescope has begun the most detailed observation of the Universe ever undertaken.

The core of the Media Associate role is to work with partners and colleagues to source and analyse intelligence, using it to develop strategic communications interventions which push ambition in key countries ahead of the UN climate talks, COP26.

The European cement industry has failed achieve significant emissions cuts under the EU ETS, though decarbonisation is set to move up the corporate agenda with 2018 marking the first year the sector faced an allowance deficit.

My riotous childhood confidante has, in adulthood, become my talisman. All I have to do is follow the pink and grey trail

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One night I had a strange dream. I dreamed the pet pink and grey galah of my childhood gently lifted the little gate on her cage with her beak, and hopped out on to the ground. Her clipped wing forgotten or perhaps no longer relevant, she soared straight up into the subtropical sky over Carnarvon, the tiny town almost 1,000km north of Perth where I grew up, and flew in a giant circle overhead. On her way around, she dipped down to tear a petal from a hibiscus shrub and, with petal in beak, gave me a nod, as if to say thank you, or perhaps just “see you later”, because once she’d made a full circle she flew off into the distance, into freedom.

I woke up in a soulful glow suggesting creativity and alchemy.

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Liberal MP says program is ‘a little blunt’ but Barnaby Joyce says having a small population ‘doesn’t mean it is a small area’

Councils with fewer than 300 people are among those to have received millions of dollars in federal government drought funding, as the Coalition prepares to sign off on new measures to help drought-affected communities.

Cabinet is set to consider further drought assistance on Tuesday, including a proposal from the National Farmers’ Federation for council rate relief, two-year interest free loans, Newstart equivalent wages for farm workers, and top-up payments for isolated school students.

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Scientists say the possible homeland of all humans alive today is an area south of the Zambesi River.

Small compliance entities are seeking out California Carbon Allowances (CCA) ahead of the interim compliance deadline later this week, but traders say the demand is having minimal impact on prices.

The most detailed survey of the cosmos aims to shed light on the mysteries of its creation.