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Th Australian Energy Market Operator says it is dealing with some 96 gigawatts of mostly wind and solar projects seeking to join the grid, but has made clear that its ability to accommodate much more new capacity will be limited if network constraints aren’t dealt with in a timely manner. Alex Wonhas, the former CSIRO...

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What can we do to address the water crisis facing regional centres?

Genome sequencing projects around the world are revealing promising new health insights.

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Small US fuel suppliers may be able to duck their compliance obligations under the Transportation and Climate Initiative's (TCI) proposed carbon market if its 10 member jurisdictions opt to use a federal designation in determining the programme's regulated entities, a regulatory source told Carbon Pulse.

A new REDD standard will look to incentivise national-scale emission reductions in high forest cover, low deforestation (HFLD) countries, and the resulting carbon credits will be designed for use in a variety of compliance and voluntary markets.

Malizia II, a high-speed yacht built to race around the world, will take the teen activist to the US.

The CEFC's latest annual report shows new investment shrank sharply last year, despite figures showing Australia now has the fastest rate of renewables deployment per person.

Clean Energy Finance Corp tipped record $1.3bn into renewable energy in FY19, says focus in 2019-20 will be on "important new frontier" of storage and grid stability.

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Fifty years on, the moon landing has a few things in common with Australia's move from coal to renewable energy. What we lack now is policy and vision.

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Exclusive: Queensland authorities believed penalty – a 20th of the maximum for a single infringement – would serve as a deterrent

One of Australia’s most contentious coalmines, New Acland, was caught drilling 27 illegal bores last year and fined $3,152 by the Queensland government, a figure an environment group has labelled “paltry”.

Documents obtained under Queensland freedom of information laws show the state Department of Environment and Science believed the Darling Downs miner had committed a “major” breach of environmental laws.

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Countries asked to flag plans for net zero emissions by 2050, but so far Australia is only talking about its 2030 target

The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, has written to all heads of state asking countries to outline their plans to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, but at this stage the Australian government is only engaging on commitments to 2030.

Ahead of a climate action summit in New York on 23 September, Guterres has reportedly asked leaders to flag plans they will set next year for 2030 emissions reduction commitments, and their plans to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

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Thursday's 38.7C in Cambridge is the hottest day ever recorded in the UK, the Met Office says.

More than 350 million trees have been planted in a single day to tackle deforestation, officials say.

Alberta offset prices could rise over the remainder of the year after the government suggested it will abandon a lower CO2 price in overhauling its large emitter trading programme, but several outstanding political and design-related factors leave some doubts.

Scientists are "extremely concerned" by a bacterium resistant to antibiotics of last resort.

Kiko Matthews, who cycled around the UK coast, says she collected 3.45 tonnes of rubbish from beaches.

Scientists and environmental campaigners warn of the dangers of lead ammunition to wildfowl and people

• Experts call for ban on lead shot as Waitrose overhauls sale of game

One hundred years ago this week the American ornithologist Alexander Wetmore published a paper reporting numerous incidents of wild waterfowl dying after swallowing lead gunshot, mistaking it for grit which they eat to aid digestion. He concluded that lead poisoning due to eating gunshot was a common occurrence and a “dangerous and usually fatal malady”.

On the same day in 1786, Benjamin Franklin wrote on lead poisoning in humans that “the Opinion of this mischievous Effect from Lead, is at least above Sixty Years old; and you will observe with Concern how long a useful Truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally receiv’d and practis’d on”.

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European carbon prices rose on Monday as traders looked to the start of a month-long supply squeeze, but some were wary over the rising risk of a no-deal Brexit.

Teenage activist to travel to US on racing yacht to cut environmental impact of travel

Greta Thunberg is to sail across the Atlantic in a high-speed racing yacht next month to attend UN climate summits in the US and Chile as part of a sabbatical year the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist will spend in the US.

“Good news! I’ll be joining the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, COP25 in Santiago … I’ve been offered a ride on the 60ft racing boat Malizia II. We’ll be sailing across the Atlantic Ocean from the UK to NYC in mid August,” Greta tweeted. The journey will take two weeks.

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