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The AEMO has furthered its push for major and rapid reform in the West Australian electricity grid, citing events on the Good Friday holiday that it said were so challenging it has dubbed the day as "Bad Friday."

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Scale of huge Pilbara wind and solar project targeting "green hydrogen" grows to 15GW, with potential to generate equivalent of one fifth of Australia's current electricity demand.

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The native birds were bleeding from their mouths, according to rescuers at One Tree Hill near Adelaide

Nearly 60 native birds have died after they fell out of the sky in front of horrified onlookers and a nearby primary school in a suspected case of mass poisoning in South Australia.

Bird rescuers said it was like “something out of a horror movie” as dozens of birds fell, bleeding from their eyes and beaks at One Tree Hill near Adelaide.

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Species’ expansion threatens South Australia’s habitat and biodiversity, report says

Animals including koalas and kangaroos could be culled in parts of South Australia, where high population numbers are damaging the landscape.

A report from a parliamentary inquiry has recommended the state’s environment minister make an immediate decision to declare koalas, western grey kangaroos, long-nosed fur seals and little corellas overabundant in some areas.

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The Clean Energy Council has joined the numerous voices calling for an urgent review of the Victorian Solar Homes Program, describing it as "ridiculous" that the month-by-month quota of 3,333 systems is filled within three days.

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Much of Germany's power is still made by burning coal. Activists have occupied a forest in protest.

The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape has been added to the World Heritage List making it Australia’s 20th World Heritage property and the first to be listed solely for Aboriginal cultural values.

The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape has been added to the World Heritage List making it Australia’s 20th World Heritage property and the first to be listed solely for Aboriginal cultural values.

An Indian state has launched the world's first "cap and trading" programme to curb air pollution.

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The Canadian federal government has solicited a report to determine the potential for different offset protocols to supply credits to the country’s ‘backstop’ large emitter trading programme.

Some 58 metres of sea level rise is locked up in Antartica's ice sheets, and it's melting faster than expected. Nerilie Abram, ARC Future Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences; Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Australian National University Matthew England, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow; Deputy Director of the Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC); Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Climate System Science, UNSW Matt King, Professor, Surveying & Spatial Sciences, School of Technology, Environments and Design, University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

UK emitters will be subject to a £16/tonne carbon tax from Nov. 4 if Britain leaves the EU without a deal at the end of October, the government said on Thursday.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices declined by double-digits amid thin volume on the secondary market, as RGGI allowance (RGA) prices rose slightly during the holiday-shortened week.

The EU won’t showcase a deeper collective emission cut goal at September’s UN Secretary General climate summit, officials said on Thursday, dashing hopes that the bloc’s leaders could return to the table this summer to agree a net zero 2050 goal.

Phil Barlow on how Tanzania has recently banned all plastic bags with great success. Plus Helen Evans on learning from her own granddaughter

Re your article about “Plastic City” on the outskirts of the Philippine capital of Manila (The villagers who are forced to live with the world’s waste, 9 September), we have just returned from Tabora town in Tanzania, having worked as volunteers for 10-week periods over the past 20 years. Our final trip revealed an amazing and extraordinary fact that Tanzania has recently banned all plastic bags, with not a black plastic bag to be seen in the streets, which hitherto was a common sight in the ditches, on the roads and in fact everywhere. These black bags were given to you in the market and from small roadside stalls selling fruit and veg, clothes and much more.

In May this year Tanzania passed a law making the use of plastic bags an offence with a hefty fine or imprisonment. The law was implemented within a month, ie on 1 June, and the effect was immediate, with all stalls and shops using a new paper-based bag in varying sizes and colours.

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Highly contagious virus can live for months in processed meat and would have ‘devastating implications’ if passed to live pigs

African swine fever has been picked up in meat seized by port authorities in Northern Ireland, the first time the ASF virus has been detected in the UK.

Officials confiscated more than 300kg of illegal meat and dairy products from airport passengers’ luggage in June. Samples tested by the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute in Belfast confirmed traces of the virus, which is highly contagious and can survive for several months in processed meat.

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EU carbon allowance auction volumes will be cut by around 37% in the final four months of 2019, sale hosts EEX announced late Thursday, as the MSR removes a further 117.6 million EUAs from the market this year.