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More climate sleight-of-hand from federal Coalition, with $500m of existing aid money for the Pacific to be diverted into renewables, disaster resilience.

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China PV giant launches new high performance module in Melbourne, in strategic bet that “race to the bottom” on PV prices is coming to an end in Australia.

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US wind power prices driven below $20/MWh as the end of Federal tax credits and Trump's trade war looms over US energy economy.

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Most of the major "gen-tailers" in Australia have hit the pause button on renewables, hiding behind Coalition policy. It will likely turn out to be a bad idea.

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Victoria Labor government makes good on election promise to boost the state’s renewable energy target to 50 per cent by 2030, with the introduction of a new bill.

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Leading fine particle specialist Reynolds Soil Technology (RST) has launched into the renewable energy industry with solutions for unique problems encountered by solar and wind farms.

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Black rats are originally from India and brown rats are originally from China. Peter Banks, Professor of Conservation Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Cold fronts swept south-eastern Australia, bringing snow and freezing temperatures. While snow is expected to decrease with climate change, cold snaps are likely to keep coming. Andrew King, ARC DECRA fellow, University of Melbourne Blair Trewin, Climate scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology Linden Ashcroft, Lecturer in climate science and science communication, University of Melbourne Sonya Fiddes, PhD Candidate in Climate Science, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Brisbane based RedEarth will expand local manufacturing facilities as it aims for $70M in locally made battery sales.

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First major wind farm in Saudi Arabia claims world record low cost of electricity at under 2c a kilowatt hour.

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Doctors are calling for greater action to combat air pollution as people living around freight routes say their health is being affected.

More contractors have been hit by damages claims from delays in connecting renewable energy projects to the grid.

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The Minister for Science, Industry and Technology discusses Australia's current recycling crisis and the Morrison Government's strategy to deal with it.

Report finds 2018 was the fourth-warmest on record since the mid-to-late- 1800s and sea levels were the highest on record

The gases heating the planet in 2018 were higher than humans have ever recorded, according to an authoritative new report from the American Meteorological Society and the US government.

Greenhouse gas levels topped 60 years of modern measurements and 800,000 years of ice core data, the study found. The data used in the 325-page report is collected from more than 470 scientists in 60 countries.

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"Numbers seem to indicate that in India and across the world, the water used in agriculture is at least double, if not three times what is needed," says Dr Ajay Mathur.

In the wake of decades of violence, ex-guerrillas in Colombia are making conservation part of the path to peace. Jaime Gongora, Associate Professor, Animal and Wildlife Genetics and Genomics, University of Sydney Federica Di Palma, Director of Science, Earlham Institute Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

About 450 overseas pests have been introduced to US forests, a climate crisis resource, due to international trade and travel

About 40% of all forests across the US are at risk of being ravaged by an army of harmful pests, undermining a crucial resource in addressing the climate crisis, new research has found.

Tree-damaging pests have already destroyed swathes of US woodland, with the American chestnut virtually wiped out by a fungal disease and elms blighted by Dutch elm disease. About 450 overseas pests that damage or feed on trees have been introduced to US forests due to the growth in international trade and travel.

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A new rule will allow officials for the first time to weigh the economic cost of species protection.

Hamerkop’s aims is to rapidly expand access to climate finance to enable climate change mitigation and adaption actions by supporting NGOs, governmental and international development organisations as well as the private sector.