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Australia joins a consortium of countries supporting a Solomon Islands hydro project, set to cut the country's reliance on diesel by two-thirds.

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Less than 3GW of new renewables plus "big battery" storage and demand-side generation could replace Victoria's Yallourn coal plant by 2023, a Reputex report claims.

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Head of global industrial giant Siemens says he "unaware" of contract to support rail line to Adani coal mine in Queensland.

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Esther Abram, giving Green Manager from the Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network (AEGN), shares her experience of partnering with the department.

Esther Abram, giving Green Manager from the Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network (AEGN), shares her experience of partnering with the department.

Shell signals major push into large scale solar in Australia with purchase of stake in Esco Pacific, following buyout of ERM Power.

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Australia criticised for blocking role at COP25 talks, sacrificing Australia's international reputation for a temporary reprieve on Kyoto carryover.

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Revolving door between federal parliament and fossil fuel industry continues to spin, this time with former treasurer Wayne Swan named as director of coal generation company.

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Scott Morrison’s vandalism of climate talks is helping push the world towards 3°C warming. How good will the cricket be then?

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Landslide debris from the collapsed Anak Krakatau volcano is imaged on the seabed for the first time.

Morrison government criticised for planning to use accounting loophole to meet emissions target

Disagreement over Australia’s plan to use an accounting loophole to meet its climate target will spill into 2020 after a United Nations conference in Madrid failed to reach consensus on rules to implement the global deal.

As talks dragged past the scheduled Friday close into Sunday afternoon, Australia was accused of “cheating” and named by other countries and conference observers as one of a handful of nations that thwarted a deal on the rulebook for the Paris climate agreement.

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A summary of Carbon Pulse's reporting from the COP25 climate talks in Madrid, which set a length record as negotiations finally wrapped up on Sunday afternoon (it was meant to end Friday evening!).

After Sydney mining investor David Glasheen lost millions in the 1987 stock market crash, he decided to make a drastic change.

One of the biggest water-carting projects in Australian history has just begun in the Queensland town of Stanthorpe.

As Australia confronts a catastrophic bushfire season, a coalition of medical professionals have declared the situation a "public health emergency".

After two weeks of tense talks at the annual UN climate conference in Madrid, nations have left the meeting deeply divided on key issues.

Global climate talks in Madrid have ended with a compromise deal, after negotiators from around the world came perilously close to leaving without an agreement.

Deutsche Bahn says activist’s tweet implied she had not been offered a seat on journey home

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been criticised by a German rail firm for what it said was her implication that she had spent a journey without a seat on an overcrowded train.

The teenager tweeted a photograph of herself looking pensively out of the window of her German train on Saturday, writing: “Traveling (sic) on overcrowded trains through Germany. And I’m finally on my way home.”

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The 22 groups link the bushfire smoke to climate change, saying lives are being put at risk

Some 22 groups representing health and medical professionals in Australia have issued a joint call to act on a “public health emergency” caused by smoke from the catastrophic bushfire season in New South Wales.

In Sydney and others areas of NSW communities have been exposed to air pollution up to 11 times worse than “hazardous” levels.

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A conference marked by squabbling and deferral yielded little progress despite protests

Governments at the UN climate talks in Madrid responded to the growing urgency of the crisis with a partial admission that carbon-cutting targets are too weak, but few concrete plans to strengthen them in line with the Paris agreement.

Two weeks of talks ended on Sunday afternoon with a formal recognition of the need to bridge the gap between greenhouse gas targets set in 2015 in Paris and scientific advice that says much deeper cuts are needed. Current targets would put the world on track for 3C of warming, which scientists say would ravage coastal cities and destroy agriculture over swathes of the globe.

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