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European carbon prices dipped on Thursday, sinking back below €24 on a weaker auction result and softer oil prices.

Jinko Solar bolsters strong Q3 earnings result with bullish forecast of solar panel shipments between 18-20GW in 2020.

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Offset developers under contract with Australia’s Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) have delivered more than 425,000 credits to the fund over the past two weeks, while the Clean Energy Regulator this week issued just over 100,000 new credits, most of that to one big landfill project.

Simon Armitage hopes the Laurel Prize will promote discussion about "our environmental predicament".

The US company's new rocket prototype experiences a major failure during pressurisation testing.

Billionaires Mike Cannon-Brookes and Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest have raised tens of millions of dollars for a giant solar farm that would supply power to Singapore and Darwin.

Following a hundred-fold increase in usage, 'climate emergency' is chosen as the 2019 word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries.

The band won't go on a world tour until they can make their concerts "environmentally beneficial".

Campaigner says Conservatives might ban live exports and give more funding for fighting wildlife crime

Wildlife campaigner Dominic Dyer received a call last week from former Conservative environment minister Zac Goldsmith with an unexpected request: could Dyer advise on the foxhunting ban, and how might the Tories strengthen it in their manifesto?

The 2019 election may go down in history as another Brexit vote but the apparently marginal issue of animal rights could – once again – prove surprisingly influential.

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In the same decade we are supposed to be cutting emissions under the Paris goals, our coal production is projected to increase by 34%. Peter Christoff, Associate Professor, School of Geography, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australia can become a renewable energy exporting superpower, but timidity won't get us there. Scott Hamilton, Strategic Advisory Panel Member, Australian-German Energy Transition Hub, University of Melbourne Changlong Wang, Researcher, The Energy Transition Hub, University of Melbourne Falko Ueckerdt, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Roger Dargaville, Senior lecturer, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Residents say such storms now occur on a weekly basis, as topsoil from drought-ravaged farms is blown through the town

Follow latest updates on Victoria, NSW and South Australia bushfires

As Victoria issued a code red bushfire alert and Melbourne sweltered through a record-equalling November temperature, the residents of Mildura walked out of their homes at midday on Thursday to see a dust storm rolling in.

On a day of catastrophic fire danger and 40C heat, high winds swept the dry topsoil into the air and across the state. In Mildura, in far north-western Victoria, dramatic footage and pictures showed the sky turn an angry red.

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Leaked document says fishing surge in international waters poses long-term risks

Iceland has been accused of threatening the long-term sustainability of vital mackerel stocks after unilaterally increasing its catches in the international waters of the north-east Atlantic.

In a damning leaked document agreed at a meeting in London in October, the EU, Norway and the Faroe Islands lambasted Reykjavik’s decision to significantly raise its quota without consultation. Russia and Greenland were also criticised.

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COGATI is an extraordinarily complex beast, but its effect would be real and immediate – it would significantly reduce investment in large-scale renewables.

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Australia’s first national, not for profit legal watchdog for the environment launches today with a mandate to ensure environmental laws are observed and properly enforced.

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Energy ministers head to Perth for the first COAG energy council meeting in almost a year, with frustrations amongst State and Territory ministers high.

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Industrial cooling systems that utilise solar energy, thermal storage, smart technology and non-toxic refrigerants will be trialled at three major commercial sites.

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Star of the South names Danish wind power exectuive Casper Frost Thorhauge to head up the 2000MW wind farm proposed for waters off the south coast of Gippsland.

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Bushfires have hit areas near Adelaide and created a smoky haze blanketing the city.

New Zealand on Thursday began consulting on modelling the electricity allocation factor (EAF) for its emissions trading scheme, a process that could lead to industrial emitters receiving fewer free NZUs from 2021.