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Acclimatise is looking for a self-motivated Senior Consultant in Climate Finance with strong technical knowledge of climate change adaptation and resilience, combined with hands-on experience in navigating the operational modalities of climate funds and developing investment-grade adaptation projects.

Inspired by long-distance tracks such as Canada’s 15,000-mile Great Trail, a proposed 4,970-mile trans-Brazil hiking trail would provide a continuous coastal corridor from its southern border with Uruguay to its northern frontier with French Guiana

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E3G is looking for an experienced practitioner to lead E3G’s day-to-day engagement with the UK government on COP26, coordinate a London-based hub for non-state actor engagement in the run up to the COP and manage E3G’s internal COP26 working group.

Phasmids hailing from New Zealand become asexual after arriving in the UK

A New Zealand stick insect that migrated to the UK more than seven decades ago has given up having sex and become asexual, prompting biologists to wonder about the use of sex at all – especially in Britain.

The Clitarchus hookeri is native to New Zealand but migrated to the UK sometime between 1910 and 1935, catching a ride on shiploads of New Zealand plants that were transported to the sub-tropical Tresco Abbey Garden on the Scilly Isles islands off the coast of Cornwall.

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ENERGY NEXT 2020 to be held from the 14-15 July 2020 at Sydney’s International Convention Centre.

The post Reed Exhibitions Australia & Clean Energy Council launch 2020 energy event appeared first on RenewEconomy.

NASA data reveals global toxic air pollution hotspots over Victoria’s Latrobe Valley and Lake Macquarie and the Hunter Valley in NSW – homes to Australia's old coal plants.

The post Ageing coal plants put Australia on map of global air pollution hotspots appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AEMO's plan to layout a pathway to largely decarbonise the Australian grid by 2050 is hugely significant.

The post Finally, Australia is about to have a plan to de-carbonise the grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Hearing the New South Wales government rush through two import gas terminals approvals is like revisiting the fantasy world of Mary Poppins.

The post Federal government needs to stop the magical gas merry go round appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Here are seven ways the Victorian government (and opposition) can supercharge the community response.

The post Seven ways to supercharge community action on climate appeared first on RenewEconomy.

VCAT upholds local council decision that 200MW Bookaar Solar farm should not go ahead in south-west Victoria, due to "deficiencies" of planning application.

The post Back to drawing board for 200MW Victoria solar farm, as VCAT dismisses appeal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia’s massive and increasing fossil fuel industry has made it the world’s third-biggest exporter of carbon emissions, with its share set to rise further without new government policies, a report said Monday.

Another milestone for Palisade Investment Partners' 112MW Granville Harbour wind farm, which promises to deliver a one-third increase to the state’s wind power capacity.

The post First foundations laid at Tasmania’s Granville Harbour wind farm appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Coal-fired stations in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley and NSW’s Lake Macquarie region among biggest hotspots for deadly sulphur dioxide, report finds

Power stations in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley and New South Wales’s Lake Macquarie region have been named on a list of the world’s biggest hotspots for toxic air pollution.

A new report by Greenpeace, published on Monday, used satellite data published by Nasa to analyse the world’s worst sources of sulphur dioxide (SO2) pollution, an irritant gas known to affect human health and one of the main pollutants contributing to deaths from air pollution worldwide.

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Eduard Pernkopf created an "atlas" of anatomy by dissecting the bodies of Nazi political prisoners.

The cows on this floating farm in the Netherlands are helping find ways of making food sustainably

Scott Morrison's approach to climate change during last week's Pacific Forum has been described as "very insulting and condescending."

A report has found the lower Darling River is slowly drying out and is at risk of suffering ecological collapse due to poor water management.

Researchers say eradication of feral cats is required to reduce the prevalence of the parasite and the disease

Feral cats are not just predators that kill large numbers of Australian wildlife, they may also be spreading parasitic disease to native animal species, according to new research analysing the impact of cat populations in South Australia.

The study, published in the journal Wildlife Research, examined Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii), a cat-borne parasite that can cause the disease Toxoplasmosis in a range of species.

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Australia Institute says claim Australia is only responsible for 1.2% of emissions hides real contribution to climate crisis

Australia’s role as a leader in the global fossil fuel trade is underscored by a report that finds it is the world’s third biggest exporter and fifth biggest miner of fossil-related emissions.

While political debate sometimes emphasises that Australia is responsible for 1.2% of global emissions at home, the analysis by progressive thinktank the Australia Institute says it trails only Russia and Saudi Arabia in exporting fossil fuels.

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Farms are on the front line of climate change - vulnerable to extreme weather events - so farmers are coming up with new and surprising ways of tackling the problem.