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Councils say residents also erroneously putting recyclable waste into plastic bags before disposing of them

Throwing soft plastics into the recycling bin is still the most common recycling mistake made by Australians, according to new research by Planet Ark.

A survey of 180 councils commissioned by the environment organisation for Recycling Week asked councils to identify what were the most common recycling mistakes made by their residents.

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The Solar Insiders team gets Fair Dinkum about solar, because that’s what we do, that’s who we are, that’s what we are about. Do you have a strawberry?

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What if the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine?

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Territory Generation unveils 5MW battery in "solar capital" of Alice Springs that is likely to deliver pay-back within four years.

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Latest Lazard report shows wind and solar now beating existing and fully depreciated fossil fuel generators on costs, and battery storage is also falling.

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One of Australia’s most important and distinctive rock art regions, Quinkan Country, has been added to Australia’s National Heritage List.

One of Australia’s most important and distinctive rock art regions, Quinkan Country, has been added to Australia’s National Heritage List.

The reality is that without human intervention, ecosystems will reshape themselves in response to climate change. The Queensland government has launched a climate plan for the state's ecosystems. Sarah Boulter, Research Fellow, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Exclusive: sticking point in negotiations likely to be increasing the capacity of the existing Goonyella to Abbot Point line to carry coal from Galilee Basin

The Queensland freight rail operator Aurizon is understood to be in discussions with Adani that will hinge on who pays for upgrades to the existing rail network, as the Indian mining company tries to resolve significant elements of its scaled-down plans.

Aurizon had planned to build a rail line linking the Galilee Basin to the Abbot Point port near Bowen, but confirmed last week it had “no plans” to pursue that proposal.

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Drilling at Preston New Road site in Lancashire has triggered 37 minor quakes in three weeks

A senior executive at the fracking company Cuadrilla privately said this summer it did not expect to cause earthquakes that would be serious enough to force it to halt operations.

But despite that confidence, the company has triggered 37 minor quakessince it started fracking for gas at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire three weeks ago.

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Exclusive: ministers seeking to make firms pay more towards recycling their own waste

Supermarkets, retailers and major drinks brands are set to pay tens of millions of pounds more towards recycling their used packaging under the government’s new waste strategy expected to be published this month, the Guardian understands.

Supermarkets and other major producers of packaging waste currently pay a small fraction of the cost of collecting and recycling the 11m tonnes of packaging waste produced in the UK.

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Undersea forests, bleached and killed by rising ocean temperature, might disappear in a few decades, experts warn

Children born today may be the last generation to see coral reefs in all their glory, according to a marine biologist who is coordinating efforts to monitor the decline of the world’s most colourful ecosystem.

Global heating and ocean acidification have already severely bleached 16 to 33% of all warm-water reefs, but the remainder are vulnerable to even a fraction of a degree more warming, said David Obura, chair of the Coral Specialist Group in the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

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Man in his 20s was at Pyramids beach when he suffered injuries to his leg and ankle

A bodyboarder has been flown to Royal Perth hospital after he was bitten by a shark at a beach south of the city.

St John Ambulance says the injured man is believed to have “suffered traumatic injuries to a foot and ankle.”

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Kon Karapanagiotidis, Banok Rind, Alisha Fernando, Leila Gurruwiwi, Jane Vadiveloo and Caroline Cabezas talk about the power of love, music, language and hope.

It was thought that cane toads couldn't survive, and certainly couldn't breed as far south as Sydney. That thought was spectacularly wrong. [repeat]

Kate Hughes describes some approaches to explaining risk and says scientists are notoriously poor at this important task.

Alison Crook describes the savings and benefits which come out of local community-based energy retailers.

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Thanks to David Attenborough, TV viewers are about to fall in love with the endangered African wild dog.

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) prices slunk back below $190 this week amid thin activity following data that showed the market to be more in a deficit than expected.