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Delays in ESCRI battery on Yorke Peninsula blamed on complexity of project and commissioning hurdles also experienced by solar plants. It may have bitten off more than it can chew.

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GreatCell, formerly Dysesol, calls in administrators after failing to raise funds and the death of its lead scientist in a mountaineering accident.

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One of the most powerful Earth observation tools ever put in orbit is now gathering data about the planet.

European carbon prices sank back near €20 on Tuesday amid further Brexit-related developments and ahead of tomorrow's EUA options expiry.

Vanuatu’s foreign minister says worst offenders on global warming are blocking progress

The United States and other high carbon dioxide-emitting developed countries are deliberately frustrating the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland, Vanuatu’s foreign minister has said. His warning came as Pacific and Indian ocean states warned they faced annihilation if a global climate “rule book” could not brokered.

In a bruising speech before ministers and heads of state, Vanuatu’s foreign minister, Ralph Regenvanu, singled out the US as he excoriated major CO2-emitting developed countries for deliberately hindering negotiations.

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An art installation featuring 30 blocks of ice brought from Greenland has been unveiled in London.

Delaware and Rhode Island finalised regulations that would adopt RGGI’s post-2020 changes, and those new regulations will go into effect this month, documents show.

A group of councils in Western Sydney last week launched its regional "Turn Down the Heat" program, focussing on how urban design and infrastructure can cool the local environment.

California and Quebec are continuing discussions with New Zealand about potential linkage opportunities after spending more than a year discussing each other’s carbon schemes, according to an ARB official and documents.

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) prices traded at a record $200 on Monday, breaking through a barrier that had proved elusive even as values skyrocketed throughout 2018, market participants said.

Australia is likely to face widespread international disapproval if it goes ahead with a plan identified by observers that involves using more than 300 million surplus units from the Kyoto Protocol era to help meet a massive shortfall in the country's Paris Agreement target.

The mystery hole in a Soyuz capsule docked to the International Space Station caused a pressure leak.

List of waterways land users must obtain permits to pollute to be scaled back, which could also allow pollution in drinking water

The Trump administration is planning to strip Obama-era pollution protections from thousands of US streams and millions of acres of wetlands, in a move environmentalists warn will harm vital wildlife and could allow pollution into drinking water.

Related: Ex-EPA chief Scott Pruitt used personal email for government work

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• Seismic air guns could harm dolphins and whales
• ‘This action is unlawful and we’re going to stop it’

Environmental groups have sued the Trump administration over offshore drilling tests, which could harm hundreds of thousands of marine mammals such as dolphins and whales.

The lawsuit filed in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, claims the National Marine Fisheries Service violated the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act when it issued five permits for the use of seismic air guns.

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Minor quake near Cuadrilla site is on par with one in 2011 that led to moratorium

Residents of Blackpool have reported feeling tremors from a minor earthquake from nearby fracking operations that restarted two months ago.

The 1.5-magnitude earthquake occurred 1km underground at around 11.20am on Tuesday, after shale gas company Cuadrilla resumed fracking after a month-long hiatus. The site is about one mile south-east of Blackpool.

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South Korea is planning a number of amendments to trading rules for its emissions trading scheme in a bid to improve market liquidity and make the programme more effective.

Gilet jaunes protests cast shadow as concerns raised over backlash against rapid change

Scientists have laid down the gauntlet for political leaders as the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland, wrestles with the challenge of cutting emissions without sparking social tensions like those seen recently in France.

The UN climate talks – known as COP24 and the most important since the Paris agreement was signed in 2015 – aim to set a new rulebook for governments to reduce greenhouse gases and to raise ambitions, after warnings of dire consequences if global warming rises more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

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Thieves caused at least 60,000 litres of oil to spill into Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay.

Has President Macron's controversial fuel tax set back carbon taxes globally?

A woman walking near the coast on Lynstone Road in Bude, Cornwall, captures the moment part of a cliff collapses on to the beach

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