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We need genuinely dispatchable power stations to complement the growing capacity of wind and solar PV. Coal and other baseload power stations cannot fill that role.

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Trump's own EPA says his climate plan will worsen health of millions of kids, cost $US50 billion

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Evergen, the provider of Australia’s only CSIRO developed intelligent energy management system, has announced that it has commenced a process to secure a new majority shareholder to drive the continued success and expansion of the business in the rapidly evolving energy sector.

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Two small wind farms in Victoria have had the highest capacity factors in the country, and more than 60% in the last two months.

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Sydney Airport signs innovative deal with Origin to supply 75 per cent of its electricity needs through a wind farm in western NSW.

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If this happens, India will become the fourth country to launch humans into space.

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Maggots fed on waste food and larvae used as food on fish farms, promising revolutionary changes

The black soldier fly Hermetia illucens already numbers millions in Britain, but if you meet one in the wild it will have escaped. It is of the newest and most productive creatures farmed in these islands. So far it is being kept in controlled conditions so that its larvae can be fed to a large variety of pets – reptiles and birds, but mostly fish.

The most ambitious projects involve feeding the maggots on tons of waste food and then using the larvae as the main source of protein for fish farms. The attraction is that the larvae grow incredibly fast, gaining up to 5,000 times their own body weight in a couple of weeks. The larvae contain a large array of nutrients absorbed from the food that would otherwise be dumped.

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The $444 million awarded to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation has been criticised as a politically calculated move. But governments have been asking what the reef can do for them ever since colonial times. Rohan James Lloyd, Adjunct Lecturer, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The third quarterly WCI auction of 2018 cleared far above the floor price as buyers snapped up all current and future vintage units available, in line with trader and analyst predictions and quelling any lingering concerns that the linked market’s first sale this year without Ontario would hamper demand.

The US EPA released its proposed rulemaking to replace the Obama-era Clean Power Plan (CPP) on Tuesday, giving states more leeway on regulating coal-fired power plants but still considering whether trading would be an eligible compliance mechanism under the new programme.

Stop the Cull group says it will not threaten cull organisers but rather disrupt them

Animal rights activists have published what they claim is a comprehensive list of farmers leading the badger cull complete with addresses, phone numbers and a map.

The Stop the Cull group has suggested its supporters get in touch with the scores of cull organisers it says it has identified to express their opposition, “sabotage” their time by making misleading phone calls or arrange demonstrations outside their farms.

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Plan would boost output from coal-fired plants and lead to as many as 1,400 premature deaths a year

The Trump administration has put forward a greenhouse gas emissions plan that could boost output from coal-fired power plants rather than push them towards closure and result in as many as 1,400 premature deaths each year.

Related: Andrew Wheeler: 'point man for Trump' focused on undoing Obama's EPA agenda

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A project, more than a decade in the making, sees young eagles released in a bid to boost declining numbers.

There's hopes that a new project in Scotland will re-introduce Golden Eagles in England and Wales.

The history of the lemurs, the most endangered group of mammals, is more complex than we thought.

Scientists say they have definitive evidence for water-ice on the surface of the Moon.

New Zealand carbon allowances took another step towards the price ceiling in Tuesday trade, adding pressure on the government to act quickly to raise the fixed price option.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday narrowly survived a snap leadership challenge from climate sceptic Peter Dutton, but the latter is expected to try again and if he succeeds, climate change would likely slink even further down on the government’s agenda.

Where people and wild animals share the same space some form of management seems to be unavoidable. What does it take to ensure the welfare of animals in the wild?