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Supplies from turbines will prove to be the next great energy revolution, IAE predicts

Erecting wind turbines on the world’s best offshore sites could provide more than enough clean energy to meet global electricity demand, according to a report.

A detailed study of the world’s coastlines has found that offshore windfarms alone could provide more electricity than the world needs – even if they are only built in windy regions in shallow waters near the shore.

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Nova Scotia Environment Minister Gordon Wilson introduced legislation on Wednesday to craft more ambitious GHG reduction targets for 2030 and 2050, along with planning a new climate change strategy for the Canadian province by the end of next year.

The first global atlas of earthworms has been compiled to help protect the fauna beneath our feet.

The Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) on Wednesday released a framework for jurisdictions to develop offset programmes across the country, with an aim of establishing long-term harmonisation and credit transferability.

Scientists shocked by data showing loss of hard corals at 100 locations across Whitsundays, Magnetic Island, Keppel Islands and Palm Islands

Coral coverage around some of the most popular tourist islands on the Great Barrier Reef has dropped by almost half in the last 18 years, according to a new study.

Scientists said they were “shocked” after analysing data from monitoring dives between 1999 and 2017 at 100 different locations across the Whitsunday Islands, Magnetic Island, Keppel Islands and Palm Islands.

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Lawyers for climate group in high court to fight police order stopping London protests

Lawyers for Extinction Rebellion are in the high court on Thursday to challenge a police order that last week effectively banned its supporters from assembling anywhere in London.

The order issued by the Metropolitan police last Monday under section 14 of the Public Order Act said XR activists “must cease their protest(s) within London”, in what was seen as an attempt to curtail the group’s two-week “October uprising”.

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EUAs slid early on Thursday as France's all-clear of its nuclear facilities prompted power market falls, adding to the Brexit-related weakness that has seen EUAs tumble 6% this week.

Researchers taught rats to drive tiny "ratmobiles" in exchange for food, which helped the rats relax.

The landfill gas arm of energy firm EDL has made good on nearly 460,000 carbon credits under government contract, while Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator this week issued a modest 150,000 new offsets.

Donald Trump says Paris deal would "punish the American people" as he hails US fossil fuel boom.

Most seabird populations, including kittiwakes, puffins and herring gulls, remain at risk.

A group of women in Noumea who swim and snorkel up to 3km five days a week have uncovered a large population of venomous sea snakes in the Baie des Citrons where scientists once believed they were rare. The citizen scientists, aged in their 60s and 70s, call themselves 'the fantastic grandmothers’. They swim with the 1.5-long lethal greater sea snakes, documenting the local population with cameras to take note of their breeding habits and share them with experts

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47 scientists and experts sign open letter urging NSW government not to overrule state laws requiring climate change impacts to be considered in the assessment of new coal mines.

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London-based energy storage specialists Highview Power to construct first large-scale and commercial "liquid air" storage facility.

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Chairman of the Australian Energy Market Commission, John Pierce, has announced the resignation of Chief Executive, Anne Pearson.

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CEFC Annual Report for 2018-19 tabled in Australian Senate, fulfilling important part of CEFC transparency, information sharing and regulatory obligations.

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The Department has launched a new website for the Physical Environment Analysis Network (PEAN). The website describes pioneering uses of government data to explore gas price impacts, agriculture development opportunities, and more.

Women’s photography of greater sea snake, once believed to be an anomaly in the Baie des Citrons, help scientists understand the ecosystem

A group of snorkelling grandmothers who swim up to 3km five days a week have uncovered a large population of venomous sea snakes in a bay in Noumea where scientists once believed they were rare.

Claire Goiran from the University of New Caledonia and Professor Rick Shine from Australia’s Macquarie University were studying a small harmless species known as the turtle‐headed sea snake located in the Baie des Citrons, but would occasionally encounter the 1.5 metre-long venomous greater sea snake, also known as the olive-headed sea snake.

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Australian regulators told to learn from the UK example, and avoid shifting to a 'capacity market' that acts as a subsidy for fossil fuel generators.

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