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Adani's attendance at a Hanoi “energy roundtable,” facilitated by the Australian government, signifies the desperate challenge it faces getting Carmichael coal project off the ground.

Clean energy accelerator program signs up record number of innovative start-ups, with some great ideas on how to charge EVs, cut waste to landfill, and help consumers get cheaper, cleaner power.

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California regulator ARB's planning on how to set post-2020 emissions caps and new offset requirement in the state's carbon market could have negative implications for future GHG reductions, several experts said at a hearing on Thursday.

UPC to advance biggest solar development in NSW and country’s biggest wind farm in Tasmania after bringing in a major new investor.

California carbon prices edged higher following Wednesday's announcement that the second quarterly WCI auction had sold out.

More speculators partook in RGGI's quarterly auctions in 2017 while compliance-oriented entities increasingly turned to the secondary market for their allowance needs, according to the programme’s annual report published Thursday.

WHO database lowers Beijing’s particulate ranking from 40th worst in world to 187th, as coal plants flagged as key culprit

Beijing is slowly shedding its image as the world’s most polluted city. In 2013, it ranked as the 40th worst city for the particulate PM2.5 in the World Health Organisation global database. Four years on, thanks in part to a crackdown on polluters, it stands in 187th place.

Air pollution in the 62 Chinese cities tracked by the WHO dropped by an average of 30% between 2013 and 2016. China’s air pollution problems are often blamed on the country’s rapid industrial growth but the problems probably date back to the 1950s.

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South Africa’s cabinet on Thursday approved the government’s proposed carbon tax bill, bringing the long-delayed legislation a step closer to becoming reality.

New research highlights the role of sea turtles and dugong in the dispersal of seeds and maintenance of seagrass meadows, an important marine habitat and the primary food source for both animals. Samantha J Tol, PhD Candidate, James Cook University Alana Grech, Assistant Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University Paul York, Senior Research Scientist in Marine Biology, James Cook University Rob Coles, Team leader, Seagrass Habitats, TropWATER, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The seal named Relashio was close to death when he was rescued.

The seal named Relashio was close to death when he was rescued.

Vast troughs are identified in one of the last places to be explored on Earth - under the ice at the South Pole.

Vast troughs are identified in one of the last places to be explored on Earth - under the ice at the South Pole.

Britain may be denied full access to the EU's Galileo satellite navigation system on security grounds after Brexit.

Britain may be denied full access to the EU's Galileo satellite navigation system on security grounds after Brexit.

The UK steps up its war of words with the EU over being shut out of new satellite navigation system.

European carbon prices jumped to a fresh seven-year high on Thursday, before recovering from a brief intraday drop under €16.

Fossil records suggest only flightless birds survived when T rex was wiped off the Earth

Birds had to rediscover flight after the meteor strike that killed off the dinosaurs, scientists say.

The cataclysm 66m years ago not only wiped out Tyrannosaurus rex and ground-dwelling dinosaur species, but also flying birds, a detailed survey of the fossil record suggests.

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Access to the EU's emissions trading registry will be suspended for 48 hours in early June to allow for a software upgrade, the European Commission announced on Thursday.