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German utility Uniper held back on its hedging of forward power output for the second quarter in a row, its results showed on Tuesday, in potentially bullish news for carbon.

Australia’s emerging offset market is set to continue in low-key mode for the next year after the government budget released Tuesday halved climate spending and failed to replenish the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF).

The government says it plans to eliminate all avoidable plastic waste, including wet wipes.

The Kilauea volcano in Hawaii started erupting on May 3 and has so far destroyed 26 homes.

Scientists hope to learn how to build tiny jumping robots - by studying an extraordinary spider.

Australia is in pole position to lead the clean energy revolution, and should put a price on carbon to realise that potential, said leading economist Ross Garnaut.

Waltham Brooks, West Sussex: Newcomers are adding their voices to the morning chorus, alert to the emerging insects

The wind is brisk and cold, but the rain has stopped, the morning mist is dispersing and the sun is breaking through the cloud. My boots sink into mud and waterlogged grass with every step. I have to leap across submerged ditches and pools to avoid wading up to my calves through the water.

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Buyers of new-build homes at a property development in Perth’s northern suburbs offered solar PPA that promises to cut their daytime power costs by 40%.

California Energy Commission looking likely to approve move to rooftop solar compulsory on all new homes, condos, and apartments from 2020.

AEMO's modelling of the future grid influenced by more dramatic falls in solar and battery storage costs, big uptake of rooftop solar, electric vehicles, batteries and virtual power plants – and a question-mark over coal.

More than 60 leading companies in the Australian and global energy storage industry will come together at the Australian Energy Storage Conference and Exhibition (AES 2018) on 23-24 May to explore the innovative energy storage technologies currently in the market and look at what's next for the sector.

The solar rush continues, with two new solar farms at Longreach in Queensland and Manildra in NSW start exporting to the grid.

Australia rooftop solar installations top 100MW for the seventh month on a row.

It's time to take a closer look at current and forecast price for carbon offsets in the Australian market. The outcome may surprise.

How do trees face an incoming threat if they can't move, see, or hear?

The GCF Secretariat is seeking for a (Private Sector) Senior Climate Change Policy Specialist to support the strengthening of the investment programs of its Private Sector Facility with the view to improve the quality and climate rationale of future investments and to assist in the development of GCF’s private sector strategy by ensuring high climate rationale and high transformational potential.

A 1.5GW solar farm is being proposed for construction in south-east Queensland, as part of a massive new development application that would include two substations and a provision for battery storage. The Somerset Regional Council said on Friday that it had received the application for the solar PV power plant, proposed for a 2,055 hectare […]

As demand for natural gas continues to surge, huge extraction vessels are about to go into action.

As demand for natural gas continues to surge, huge extraction vessels are about to go into action.

NHS, schools, government and other services should use UK ingredients for food wherever possible, according to proposals

Food procured for Britain’s public sector after Brexit should be sourced from the UK wherever possible, the biggest farming organisation has said.

Promised sweeping reforms of food and farming have been cast by ministers as a flagship policy that will unlock some of the biggest potential benefits from Brexit. But farmers fear they will lose the £3bn-a-year taxpayer subsidy they enjoy under EU rules and be hamstrung by subsidised competition from Europe.

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