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It is the first time physical evidence of the 1651 Battle of Worcester has been discovered.

Commemorations were held today where, 30 years ago, Prime Minister Bob Hawke launched Landcare at the junction of the Murray and Darling rivers.

NZUs traded up to NZ$25 ($15.73) on Tuesday for the first time since late May as the bullish outlook from imminent regulatory changes outweighed restrictions from the fixed price option.

Hills Shire council said it had received 40 complaints over three years about the magpie, and several people had been injured

A local council in Sydney’s north west has said a decision to shoot dead a “particularly aggressive magpie” that had allegedly swooped and injured people for years was “not taken lightly”.

The Hills Shire council had received 40 complaints over the past three years, with confirmed injuries, including people sent to hospital as a result of being swooped by the magpie on Old Windsor Road in Bella Vista.

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Can the palm oil industry improve its impact on the environment?

Depths of lakes that hold about 90% of US’s freshwater spiking to record levels, from 14in to nearly 3ft above long-term averages

This summer, as rain relentlessly poured down on the Great Lakes region, Detroit declared a rare state of emergency. The swollen Detroit River had spilled into the low-lying Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood – an event not seen near this scale since 1986.

Volunteers sandbagged the area as the city’s overwhelmed sewer system spilled raw sewage into the river, which connects Lake Huron and Lake Erie. Across the channel from Jefferson Chalmers, water damaged the historic boathouse on Belle Isle, an iconic 982-acre island park that remains partly shut down because of flooding.

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Galicia has agreed to a cull of the creatures, which are turning up in unusually large numbers and feasting on the region’s key export

Galicia, in north-west Spain, has declared war on an apparently inoffensive creature that is putting livelihoods under threat.

The region’s shellfish farmers say that an unusually large population of starfish has begun devouring their crop of mussels, cockles and clams. They recently obtained permission from the regional government to cull the starfish, and divers have been hauling up hundreds of kilos a day.

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Risen Energy (Australia) has signed a large-scale exclusive distribution agreement with One Stop Warehouse, Australia’s largest solar distributor.

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New study shows solar is cheaper than electricity prices throughout Europe, and even with storage it's still cheaper in some countries. Policy makers need to catch up.

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Australia’s leading Data Centre-as-a-Service provider is pleased to announce that it has earned top global acclaim from respected Global Analyst and Growth Partnership Company, Frost & Sullivan.

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Everyone knew that a large increase in wind and solar was going to force down electricity prices. Few thought it would happen in late winter 2019.

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Juwi chosen to complete 30MW expansion of Australia's first grid-scale solar farm, replacing failed RCR Tomlinson after nine month hiatus.

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Australian zinc bromine flow battery maker signals continued focus on telco and other industrial and remote energy storage markets, after “pivotal" year of strategic growth.

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Concern in New Zealand that trend of taking photographs with penguins and other creatures is having impact on feeding, breeding and birth rates

At the International Penguin Conference in New Zealand, the experts were worried. Among sobering discussions about the perils of the climate crisis and habitat loss, the unlikely issue of wildlife selfies photobombed the agenda, with increasing concern that the celebrity-fuelled search for that perfect shot is affecting animal behaviour.

Professor Philip Seddon, the director of Otago University’s wildlife management programme, said: ‘We’re losing respect for wildlife, we don’t understand the wild at all.”

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Only a third of scientists are women but Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn wants young women to persist.

The Australian Medical Association says the evidence is clear – climate change will increase mortality rates and even lead to worse mental-health.

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The Green Climate Fund (GCF) struck a deal late last week on how to refill its coffers, smoothing the path for the UN’s main climate finance instrument to continue channelling cash to poorer nations.

Drought and Water Minister David Littleproud has warned of more pain for Murray-Darling Basin communities and the risk of more fish kills.

A large, successful Macro fund is looking to add a Carbon/ Climate Change Market Analyst to their team.