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The outcome of the 2018 state election will have big implications for tackling climate change and rolling out renewable energy.

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APA adds solar farm to new wind project in Western Australia, making second on-grid solar-wind hybrid in the state.

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Labor and Greens say former PM could ‘put to bed’ why government money was given to private charity

Malcolm Turnbull could be compelled to appear at a Senate inquiry examining the government’s $443.8m grant to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation under a Labor and Greens push.

Although MPs cannot be compelled to answer questions in Senate committees, Turnbull’s decision to resign as member for Wentworth on Friday means he could be forced to front the inquiry examining the grant.

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Game-changing discoveries, medical breakthroughs, systems for sustainability, revolutionary inventions, inspiring leaders and schoolgirls - the winners announced tonight at the 2018 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, Australia’s leading science awards.

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Oregon industry groups on Tuesday told lawmakers they wanted protection or exemptions under a potential cap-and-trade programme to avoid rising economic costs.

Renewables account for nearly a fifth of all domestic electrical generation in US, beating nuclear and not far short of coal.

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Scientists find that goats are drawn to humans with happy facial expressions.

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Insects’ acquired taste for pesticide-laced food is similar to nicotine addiction in smokers, say scientists

Bumblebees acquire a taste for pesticide-laced food that can be compared to nicotine addiction in smokers, say scientists.

The more of the nicotine-like chemicals they consume, the more they appear to want, a study has shown.

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UK ministers set aside £92m to study the feasibility of a sovereign satellite-navigation system.

An excellent summer for moths so far may also yet bring us the Camberwell beauty from Finland and Scandinavia

A year of extremes has triggered some unexpected variations in butterfly behaviour, distribution and population. But before we look back, I’m still looking forward with hope.

The similarly hot summer of 1976 produced the last vintage season for our most exciting migratory butterfly: the Camberwell beauty. This big, powerful and completely gorgeous insect with wings the colour of crushed plums bordered with blue studs and primrose yellow will be blown in from Finland and Scandinavia if we are blessed with easterly winds in the next few weeks.

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Brazil has set itself a target of restoring almost 50,000 sq km of the Amazon rainforest by 2030. But it won't get there without changing its policies and how it engages with local people. Danilo Ignacio de Urzedo, PhD candidate, University of Sydney Robert Fisher, Senior lecturer, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

European carbon prices fell almost 3% on Tuesday to end the massive bull run that had seen EUAs gain as much as a fifth over the past seven sessions.

Prices for California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits on Monday fell out of the $180 range they had mostly resided in for the past couple months, while regulator ARB announced that it will vote on programme amendments in September to conclude the year's formal rulemaking process.

All but the cleanest vehicles to be banned from nine streets in Islington and Hackney

Two London councils are to ban all but the cleanest vehicles from some areas at peak times to help tackle the city’s air pollution crisis.

In the UK’s first scheme of its kind, only ultra-low emission vehicles such as electric cars, e-bikes, and the newest hybrids and hydrogen vehicles will be allowed on nine streets in Hackney and Islington from 7am-10am and 4pm-7pm on weekdays.

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The US Justice Department (DOJ) filed a brief on Monday arguing that the Supreme Court should not accept petitions to overturn a lower court’s ruling on an Obama-era ban on potent heat-trapping gases, reversing course on an environmental policy that the Trump administration initially sought to defend.

Almost £9m to be spent to protect wet and temperate forests from invasive species

A project to restore an endangered section of the British countryside – the Celtic rainforest in rural Wales – has been launched with funding from the Welsh government and the EU.

Almost £9m is to be spent trying to protect and improve the wet and temperate forests typically dominated by sessile oak, downy birch, ash and hazel, in an areacriss-crossed by tumbling streams and waterfalls.

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French Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot resigned on Tuesday, due in part to what he said was the country’s lack of progress towards tackling issues relating to climate change, biodiversity, and the environment.

New Zealand carbon allowances set yet another record high on Tuesday as policy fundamentals continue to suggest prices will go higher in the future.