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Construction commences at 25MW Katherine Solar Farm as Northern Territory begins shift towards target of 50% renewables by 2030.

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Everything you need to know about the battery electric vehicles available in Australia - their price, range and performance checklist.

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Solar industry intensifies calls for Victorian government to review “absolute monster” of rooftop solar rebate, amid reports of failing businesses and frustrated consumers.

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The Royal Society tells the Tory leadership candidates the UK collaborates more with the EU than the US.

A small surcharge on dog food could massively improve conservation for Australia's native dingos and wild dogs. Neil R Jordan, Lecturer, UNSW Rob Appleby, PhD student at the Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

As more of us worry about our carbon emissions, how can you offset your air travel?

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Alberta will likely keep the C$30/tonne compliance charge in its proposed overhaul of the Canadian province’s trading programme for large emitters, a shift from the ruling United Conservative Party’s (UCP) original plan to lower the CO2 price below the federal ‘backstop’ rate next year, a government official said Wednesday.

Experts believe false readings occurred because radar interpreted insects as raindrops

Huge swarms of flying ants that hit England’s south coast were mistaken by weather satellites in space for clouds of rain.

The Met Office’s radar captured what it described as “insect clutter” over the counties of Hampshire, West Sussex and Dorset on Wednesday morning. They were also spotted in East Sussex and Kent.

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A new photography book captures the environmental threat to America's coastal region.

With many regions in the country still in drought, the situation has reached crisis point for dairy farmers in the Riverina region of southern NSW.

A Utah-led lawsuit challenging the legality of both California’s cap-and-trade programme and a bill that sets emissions performance standards for baseload generation is on hold as funding for the case has not become available, multiple sources told Carbon Pulse.

A proposal for 270m tall wind turbines on Robbins Island has ruffled some feathers – but here's why towering turbines are here to stay. Con Doolan, Professor, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, UNSW Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Blowing trillions of tonnes of snow on to ice sheet could halt its collapse, researchers say

Spraying trillions of tons of snow over west Antarctica could halt the ice sheet’s collapse and save coastal cities across the world from sea level rise, according to a new study.

The colossal geoengineering project would need energy from at least 12,000 wind turbines to power giant seawater pumps and snow cannons, and would destroy a unique natural reserve. The scientists are not advocating for such a project, but said its apparent “absurdity” reflects the extraordinary scale of threat from rising sea level.

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A proposed compromise on Oregon’s failed WCI-modelled cap-and-trade bill would have retired allowances for power supplied to heavy industries for at least the first two years of the scheme, according to language seen by Carbon Pulse, while lawmakers are planning their next moves for advancing the ETS.

Onlookers watched as a huge pod of dolphins - known as a super- or megapod - swam alongside them.

Demand response finally allowed in wholesale markets, but like the switch to 5-minute settlements, will be delayed at behest of retailers, while households won't be allowed to play.

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Chennai is India's sixth largest city, but its residents are relying on trucks and trains to bring them water.

EUAs fell to a three-day low before climbing back into positive territory on Wednesday, halting their slide from an 11-year high earlier this week as buyers emerged following this morning's bumper auction.

The birds, whose numbers once dropped to just 22 in the wild in the early 1980s, have two new chicks: Nos 1,000 and 1,001

Nestled among the red-rock cliffs of Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon, California condor chicks No 1,000 and 1,001 blinked into this world. Their birth signalled success for a decades-long program to bring North America’s largest bird back from the brink of extinction.

As a result of hunting, diminishing food and dwindling territory, the number of birds in the wild numbered just 22 in the early 1980s. Lead poisoning was also a major killer, caused by inadvertently ingesting bullets that hunters left inside dead animals that the enormous birds, which have a wingspan of 9.5 feet and weigh up to 25lbs, scavenged for food.

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