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The latest render of Tesla's yet-to-be-unveiled electric ute goes all out in cyberpunk design.

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The Yeelirrie uranium mine is the latest instalment in Australia's long tradition of ignoring the dignity and welfare of Aboriginal communities in the pursuit of nuclear fuel. Jessica Urwin, PhD Candidate, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Leading solar manufacturer Hanwha to launch “next generation” 100% renewable electricity retailer in Australia, using software platform of UK-based Octopus Energy.

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Citizen-funded campaign to flag up illegal levels of toxic air to London buyers and renters

A citizen-funded advertising campaign against air pollution will target the property market with billboard slogans including “Location, location, lung disease” and “The neighbourhood’s gone to the docs”.

These will be accompanied by online ads and a website where homebuyers and renters in London will be able to look up levels of toxic air for the property they are considering. The campaign will launch in the capital in late May and there are plans to make it nationwide.

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Jellyfish’s sting carries enough venom to kill more than 60 people

An antidote has been discovered for the world’s most venomous creature, the Australian box jellyfish.

Researchers at the University of Sydney have found an antidote for the sting of the jellyfish – which carries enough venom to kill more than 60 people.

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A commercial thermal energy storage system by 1414° that converts biogas from a wastewater treatment plant has begun operating in South Australia.

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Greens leader Richard di Natale labels Coalition a disaster on climate and energy, and pushes Labor to go where it doesn't want to go - at least not yet.

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Socialist vote jumps in mining regions after deal to transition away from coal, manifesto calls for ‘consideration of planetary limits as conditions for economic progress’.

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ReNu Energy executes Term Sheets with Astronergy Solar Australia Pty Ltd for the acquisition of 2 x 5.8MW DC solar farm developments in South Australia.

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Shares in Tempo suspended amid cost over-runs at new solar project and departure of top executives, and as company turns to former head of failed RCR to help it out.

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US Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states should establish a cap-and-trade programme with a floor price that regulates fuel emissions high in the supply chain, several experts said at the Transportation and Climate Initiative's (TCI) first workshop on Tuesday.

EUAs remained above €26 on Tuesday as stronger auction demand lent support on the 2018 compliance deadline day to notch a huge 22% monthly gain.

A group of locals are the only thing preventing human-elephant conflict in a deforested area of Indonesian rainforest.

As Indonesian orangutans come into closer contact with humans, they are at increasing risk of capture.

Labour leader urges emissions cuts and boost for renewables in ‘green industrial revolution’

Jeremy Corbyn will urge MPs to take on their “historic duty” over climate change and back a Labour motion calling for the UK to declare a national environmental and climate-change emergency.

Speaking in the wake of climate strikes by young people and the wave of protests by Extinction Rebellion, the Labour leader will open an opposition day debate on Wednesday by also seeking a so-called green industrial revolution to transform the economy.

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The UK government has agreed to give a £100 million emergency loan to British Steel to help it buy enough EU ETS allowances to cover 2018 compliance, Sky News reported late Tuesday, citing unnamed sources.

Researchers now fear a range of high profile species, such as the Lemuroid Ringtail Possum, could disappear from the world's oldest rainforest within three years.

Adani has promised to fix its groundwater plan – but that might not be possible. Matthew Currell, Associate Professor in Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, RMIT University Adrian Werner, Professor of Hydrogeology, Flinders University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.