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The wildlife and threatened species bushfire recovery Expert Panel has released a communique.

The wildlife and threatened species bushfire recovery Expert Panel has released a communique.

The Australian Government has made an initial commitment of $50 million for emergency wildlife and habitat recovery. This is a down-payment to support immediate work to protect wildlife, and work with scientists, ecologists, communities and land...

Relatives and co-workers live in fear after two monarch butterfly activists were found dead in Mexico.

Stella Wedell astounded to spot tape in exhibition of art made out of plastic marine debris

A music fan has been reunited with a cassette tape she lost while on holiday 25 years ago after it washed up on a beach hundreds of miles away.

Stella Wedell was 12 when she took the tape on a Spanish holiday to listen to songs by the likes of Pet Shop Boys, Shaggy and Bob Marley on her Walkman.

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Having run out of space on land, a solar array has been floated on the open sea of the Arabian Gulf to help power the Abu Dhabi resort island of Nurai.

The post Offshore floating solar array set to power Abu Dhabi island resort appeared first on RenewEconomy.

How close are we really to seeing solar cars? What would the benefits be, and for what price? And how far will they be able to drive?

The post Driving on sunshine: Solar cars could be closer than you think appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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US biofuel credit (RIN) prices continued their recent bull run this week as reports surfaced that the EPA will meet with Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) stakeholders over possible changes to the programme’s compliance waiver process, a response to a significant court decision last month.

Compliance-oriented entities markedly increased their RGGI allowance holdings during Q4 of 2019 amid higher trading activity and rising prices, according to the quarterly market monitor published Thursday.

White's seahorse in Sydney uses seahorse hotels as temporary residence while their natural habitats recover. David Harasti, Adjunct assistant professor, Southern Cross University Michael Simpson, PhD candidate, University of Sydney Rebecca L. Morris, Research Fellow In Ecological Engineering, University of Melbourne Ross Coleman, Professor, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Scientists say they have overturned the prevailing theory of how the planets in our Solar System formed.

With well-funded research, cold fusion has the potential to provide us with a sustainable source of energy, writes Prof Brian Josephson

Tim Flannery (The age of the megafire is here, and it’s a call to action, Journal, 7 February) writes: “As far as swift climate action is concerned, all good choices have gone up in smoke”.

That may not be the case, however. There has been abundant support by now for the claim made by Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons in 1989 to have observed nuclear fusion at ordinary temperatures, but the hope that such a fossil-fuel-free process might contribute usefully to energy production has not been fulfilled because it is very unpredictable, and we do not as yet know the conditions needed to produce large amounts of energy. Suitably funded research on a large scale might lead to a resolution of this issue.
Prof Brian Josephson
Emeritus professor of physics, University of Cambridge

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Experts are developing a better knowledge of the brain by studying tissue left over from surgery.

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• Average global temperature 2.5F above 20th-century average
• Antarctic has begun February with several temperature spikes

Last month was the hottest January on record over the world’s land and ocean surfaces, with average temperatures exceeding anything in the 141 years of data held by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Related: Antarctic temperature rises above 20C for first time on record

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• Effects of 2010 BP oil spill were 30% larger than calculated
• Satellite images unable to detect full extent of pollution in Gulf

The environmental impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico a decade ago was much worse than previously believed, according to a new study.

Related: Deepwater Horizon disaster altered building blocks of ocean life

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California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices slid this week as traders adjusted positions ahead of the first WCI auction of 2020, while a significant reaction in RGGI Allowances (RGAs) failed to materialise after Virginia legislators approved a bill to implement the state’s power sector ETS.

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