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America's audacious mission to "touch the Sun" has now got nearer to our star than any previous human-made object.

Brazil's highly biodiverse Cerrado is being destroyed for soybean production, conservationists say.

A WWF report blames "exploding consumption" for average losses of 60% among vertebrates since 1970.

The announcement of a new fast-charging network to link the major east coast cities will do much to encourage motorists to buy electric cars. But the power utilities need to get on board too. Iftekhar Ahmad, Associate Professor, Edith Cowan University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

New study commissioned by ARENA show Australia is "spoilt for choice" for storage options, and most are are lower cost than thought, and cheaper than fossil fuel alternative.

The post Batteries, hydro, hydrogen: What are Australia’s best options for energy storage? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

ACF aims to pour resources into three marginal seats to inflict electoral pain on major parties for policy failures

The Australian Conservation Foundation will target three marginal seats in Victoria and Queensland in a bid to push “middle Australia” to demand more action on climate change, its chief executive has said.

Kelly O’Shanassy made the comments at the National Press Club on Tuesday, unveiling the environmental group’s election action plan to break the political deadlock over climate change.

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The 2018 Living Planet report from the WWF has found that a shocking 60% of the earth's  mammals, birds, fish and reptiles have been lost  since 1970.  The findings have led the world’s foremost experts to warn that the annihilation of wildlife is now an emergency that threatens civilisation.

• Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds

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The World Bank won't touch it. But the Morrison government has indicated it will do pretty much anything to ensure the answer to whatever question asked – is coal.

The post Is this the Coalition swansong? Just one more coal plant for the road appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The more renewables – and particularly solar – capacity comes on-line, the lower the profitability for baseload generators. Just ask California.

The post Rise of renewables dooms baseload generation appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Goldwind Australia’s Cattle Hill Wind Farm to install cutting edge eagle detection technology, in effort to protect endangered Tasmanian Wedge-tailed Eagle.

The post Tasmania wind farm Australia’s first to use eagle protection technology appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Experts worry this will increase demand for the animals and jeopardise efforts to protect them.

Are we on the verge of too much solar? Probably, yes, if you’re the existing owner of an electricity generator. But probably not for everyone else. And certainly not if you are concerned about global warming.

The post Too much solar? Too much for whom, exactly? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Ndevr Environmental has achieved carbon neutral certification for its consultancy service.

The animals have been getting fishing nets stuck to them or rings trapped on their necks.

The delights of chocolate were first discovered in the Amazon rainforest about 5,000 years ago.

With an estimated two million new homes to be built in Victoria between now and 2050, Sustainability Victoria has released a new six-step guide to help Victorians design and construct energy efficient homes.

The post Six steps to an energy efficient home appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The huge loss is a tragedy in itself but also threatens the survival of civilisation, say the world’s leading scientists

Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970, leading the world’s foremost experts to warn that the annihilation of wildlife is now an emergency that threatens civilisation.

The new estimate of the massacre of wildlife is made in a major report produced by WWF and involving 59 scientists from across the globe. It finds that the vast and growing consumption of food and resources by the global population is destroying the web of life, billions of years in the making, upon which human society ultimately depends for clean air, water and everything else.

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A Powys captive breeding project aims to give water voles a fighting chance of a revival.

Assessment underscores threat to koalas and other native species

• Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds

Australia’s east coast has been compared to the Amazon as a “deforestation front” in a new global report by the World Wide Fund for Nature that underscores the threat to populations of koalas and other native species.

The Living Planet report, produced by WWF every second year for the past 20 years, says global populations of vertebrate species have declined 60% since 1970. But koala numbers have disappeared at a much faster rate – more than 20% a decade – to the extent they could disappear from the wild in New South Wales by 2050.

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The ‘acqua alta’ created havoc in Venice, as schools and hospitals were closed and citizens were advised against leaving their homes. The flooding, caused by a convergence of high tides and a strong sirocco wind, reached around 156cm on Monday

• Three-quarters of Venice flooded by exceptional high tide

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