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Researchers from Australian National University set new solar record, notching up highest ever efficiency levels for perovskite cells above a certain size, at 21.6%.

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The teen climate change activist arrives in New York City after a 15-day trip across the Atlantic Ocean on a solar-powered boat.

Oz Minerals looks to wind and solar to provide up to 80% of the power needs for huge nickel and copper project planned for central Australia.

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The push to overturn the ban on nuclear energy will gather steam today with the first public hearing of a parliamentary inquiry into a nuclear power industry for Australia.

As Labor reviews the climate change policies it took to the election, the Party's national president Wayne Swan is issuing a chilling warning about the state of the planet.

California fuel consumption fell in May for the fourth consecutive month as diesel sales continue to deviate from 2018 levels, likely leading to lower annual compliance obligations in the WCI cap-and-trade scheme.

Offset registry Climate Action Reserve (CAR) is aiming to finalise its voluntary Canadian grassland offset protocol this fall after the Ontario government cancelled the entity’s WCI contract earlier this year, and the methodology could still be used in federal or provincial-run compliance markets. 

‘Everyone always asks me about Donald Trump,’ Greta Thunberg said in her press conference after arriving in New York following her journey on a yacht across the Atlantic. ‘I say “Listen to the science” and he obviously does not do that’, she continued, speaking to a cheering crowd.

The 16-year-old Swedish activist had travelled to the city to attend a UN summit on zero emissions after refusing to fly because of the carbon emissions caused by planes

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Scientists researching how coastal wetlands can help in the fight against climate change have taken out one of our biggest science awards.

The successor to the famous Hubble Space Telescope reaches a key milestone in its construction.

In coming weeks, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority will release its emergency response plan for this year's predicted long, hot summer that will hit already stressed rivers in the basin.

California regulator ARB granted under half a million California Carbon Offsets (CCOs) across three protocols this week and reduced the invalidation period on an additional 447,000 offsets, state data showed.

Crowds in New York await Sweden’s teenage environmental campaigner, who will set foot on dry land after her zero-carbon journey by yacht

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Water, water everywhere around New York City, where we are waiting for Greta Thunberg’s arrival breathlessly (literally, actually, as the wind has dropped, my colleague downtown tells me, which will affect her ability to enter the marina in lower Manhattan under sail).

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When Greta Thunberg was setting sail from Plymouth (in England, not New England) on August 14, my colleague on the spot that day, the Guardian’s global environment editor Jonathan Watts, reported that the activist didn’t intend to talk to with US president Donald Trump, even were the opportunity to present itself.

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The discovery of an ancient skull in Ethiopia underlines the complexity in the evolution of humans.

Long-tailed blues and eggs seen in large numbers but are unlikely to survive the winter

A fast-flying migratory butterfly from the Mediterranean is appearing in large numbers across southern England this summer as a result of global heating, experts say.

More than 50 long-tailed blues and hundreds of the butterfly’s eggs have been discovered in recent weeks, which is likely to result in an unprecedented emergence of the butterfly in Britain later this autumn.

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The 16-year-old campaigner arrives in the US after sailing for two weeks across the Atlantic.

In the fractious climate debate, criticism of young activists has sometimes spiralled into abuse.

XR says 750 people will occupy Deansgate in protest at city’s climate crisis contradictions

Hundreds of climate protesters plan to occupy one of Manchester’s busiest streets for four days this weekend to expose the “huge contradictions” of a city region that has declared a climate emergency while planning to massively expand its airport.

The Extinction Rebellion group says that from 10am on Friday at least 750 people have pledged to take over part of Deansgate, a popular area for shopping and entertainment that has illegal levels of air pollution.

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The Model 3 is certainly something different, and could change the minds of EV-doubters, and mark a shift in the lagging EV market in Australia.

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Fossil fuel burning is the big issue but continued forest cover loss will make climate targets harder to achieve, say scientists.