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CEFC Annual Report for 2018-19 tabled in Australian Senate, fulfilling important part of CEFC transparency, information sharing and regulatory obligations.

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The Department has launched a new website for the Physical Environment Analysis Network (PEAN). The website describes pioneering uses of government data to explore gas price impacts, agriculture development opportunities, and more.

Women’s photography of greater sea snake, once believed to be an anomaly in the Baie des Citrons, help scientists understand the ecosystem

A group of snorkelling grandmothers who swim up to 3km five days a week have uncovered a large population of venomous sea snakes in a bay in Noumea where scientists once believed they were rare.

Claire Goiran from the University of New Caledonia and Professor Rick Shine from Australia’s Macquarie University were studying a small harmless species known as the turtle‐headed sea snake located in the Baie des Citrons, but would occasionally encounter the 1.5 metre-long venomous greater sea snake, also known as the olive-headed sea snake.

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Australian regulators told to learn from the UK example, and avoid shifting to a 'capacity market' that acts as a subsidy for fossil fuel generators.

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Advertisers that tell a good story can persuade the public of all sorts of things. But some messages are disingenuous and misleading. Sergio Brodsky, Sessional Lecturer, Marketing, RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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South Australia government begins search for new electricity supplier to replace cancelled contract with solar tower power plant planned for Port Augusta.

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US smart solar tech outfit Nextracker "very bullish" on Australia's big solar market, as it pivots from NEM-connected to commercial, industrial and off-grid projects.

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Upbeat Tesla says it has turned the corner, and now aims to sell 20 million cars a year and become a giant distributed global utility, combining EVs, battery storage and solar.

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The New Zealand government has backed down on plans to bring agriculture into its emissions trading scheme, agreeing instead to work with the sector to develop a separate carbon pricing mechanism for farmers by 2025.

Rok Rozman competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Now he has kayaked across six countries to help defend rivers against dams.

California regulator ARB granted under 89,000 offsets (CCOs) this week, marking its lowest weekly issuance since spring 2018, according to data released Wednesday.

Two ANU energy experts say Australia's overall emissions could fall over the next three years, thanks to wind and solar investments, and so much more could be done.

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House Democrats on Wednesday laid out evidence that the oil behemoth ExxonMobil had known since the 1970s about the potential for a climate crisis and intentionally sowed doubt about it. One of those testifying was Martin Hoffert, a scientist consultant for Exxon Research and Engineering in the 1980s. Responding to the New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Hoffert testified that in 1982, Exxon scientists predicted how carbon dioxide levels would rise and heat the planet as humans burned more fossil fuels

• Exxon sowed doubt about climate crisis, House Democrats hear in testimony
  

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Lightsource BP to build its first solar plant in Australia, a 200MW facility in NSW that will supply cheap power to Snowy Hydro.

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Prof Ian Shanks used his daughter's toy microscope to build a prototype for the device in the 1980s.

Singer Ellie Goulding spoke at the One Young World summit encouraging young people to stay positive.

Australia's renewables revolution proves that there's cause for hope in our emissions reduction goals. But we cannot rest on our laurels. Andrew Blakers, Professor of Engineering, Australian National University Matthew Stocks, Research Fellow, ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Forecast suggests rainforest could stop producing enough rain to sustain itself by 2021

Soaring deforestation coupled with the destructive policies of Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, could push the Amazon rainforest dangerously to an irreversible “tipping point” within two years, a prominent economist has said.

After this point the rainforest would stop producing enough rain to sustain itself and start slowly degrading into a drier savannah, releasing billions of tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere, which would exacerbate global heating and disrupt weather across South America.

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US chemists have turned plastic into motor oil, but the scientific battle to break down the tide of plastic waste continues.