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15 hours of extremely hot weather added about $60/MWh to the average price for the entire March quarter last summer. Will it happen again this coming summer?

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Imports of waste oil from Asia, intended to cut carbon from transport, are linked to rising levels of deforestation

Indonesia's Terregra Renewables completes its first solar farm in Australia, with another on the way, eyeing attractive merchant market for electricity.

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The public knew little about this enigmatic man, but now we are gaining a glimpse of the real Neil Armstrong.

A new study from Monash University has found people's frugality and deep attachment to their electronic devices make them unwilling to let them go.

"Europe's GPS" goes offline as it grapples with a technical glitch in its ground infrastructure.

India's space mission to the Moon's south pole will not launch on Monday, due to a technical problem.

The NSW government has announced plans to remove feral deer from its list of official game animals. With careful monitoring, the resulting free-for-all could help curb their booming numbers. Thomas Newsome, Lecturer, University of Sydney Emma Spencer, PhD candidate, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The huge barrel jellyfish, as big as a human, was seen off the coast of Cornwall.

More than 45 animals in fields around Northamptonshire killed, butchered and stolen

At least 45 lambs and sheep have been “professionally slaughtered” in fields in Northamptonshire, with several left butchered for farmers to discover.

In the past week there have been four brutal attacks, the incidents occurring within 30 miles of one another.

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They’ve struck before, and they’ll hit again. Can we save our skins in time, or will we go the way of the dinosaurs?

Labour in power would change law to reveal imported emissions and ‘carbon leakage’

The UK will stop hiding its “true impact” on the climate by revealing its consumption of carbon emissions from across the world, Jeremy Corbyn was due to pledge on Sunday.

In an attempt to place his party at the forefront of the battle against the climate crisis, the Labour leader was due to say, is “even greater than we think” and demands an end to “passing the buck to poorer countries”.

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Ambitious export plan could generate billions and make Australia the centre of low-cost energy in a future zero-carbon world

The desert outside Tennant Creek, deep in the Northern Territory, is not the most obvious place to build and transmit Singapore’s future electricity supply. Though few in the southern states are yet to take notice, a group of Australian developers are betting that will change.

If they are right, it could have far-reaching consequences for Australia’s energy industry and what the country sells to the world.

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The submersible robot delivers baby corals to damaged areas allowing reefs to regenerate.

All the focus was on the Moon, the mission and the men – but what about the families back on Earth?

Australia's neighbour is one of the world's worst plastic polluters, and it's individuals who are doing the most work to clean up.

Other events included mass bike ride through A10, Olympic park traffic blocks as well as talks and panels in London Fields

Extinction Rebellion has staged a blockade in Dalston, east London, disrupting traffic at its busiest central junction. Car horns, sirens and swearing competed with drumming protesters, singing and hula dancing. On Saturday the group kicked off a weekend of activity ahead of its summer uprising this week, which aims to disrupt five major UK cities and shock people into action against the climate crisis.

About 50 protesters lined the road with banners reading “thank you for your patience” and “sorry for the disruption” in the hope of placating the public for the seven-minute intervals during which they blocked traffic. Some drivers were bored, others were furious.

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More living walls are being created in cities to tackle pollution, but keeping them alive can be a major challenge

When Andrea Carnevali’s son started at St Mary’s Catholic primary school in Chiswick he was alarmed to find that pupils were sometimes kept indoors at break times, despite a large playground.

The reason was the nearby six-lane A4 road, which has up to 100,000 vehicles thundering past the school each day. As evidence mounted about the impact of poor air quality on children’s health, the headteacher restricted time outside.

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One of the most important Russian space science missions in the post-Soviet era lifts off from Baikonur.

A farm in Portugal is showing how the ancient art of silvopasture – combining livestock with productive trees – may offer some real answers to the climate crisis

The land to the north of the village of Foros de Vale Figueira in southern Portugal has been owned and farmed through the centuries by Romans, Moors, Christians, capitalists, far rightists, even the military. It has been part of a private fiefdom, worked by slaves as well as communists.

Now this 100-hectare (247-acre) patch of land just looks exhausted – a great empty grassland without trees, people or animals, wilting under a baking Iberian sun.

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