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Many shoppers assume that paper bags are best for the environment, but that's not necessarily the case.

The planet is steering dangerously close to becoming a 'hot house' if humans continue to emit carbon at the current rate.

The Mendocino Complex blaze has become California's biggest ever fire. By Monday afternoon the fire had destroyed 87 residences and 82 other structures, and news agencies reported seven deaths so far across California.  Covering an area of 443.4 sq miles, the fire has surpassed the scale of the Thomas fire, which broke out in 2017

• Mendocino Complex fire becomes California's biggest ever

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After walking past bags of rubbish in Oxford, artist Simon Mandarino decided to illustrate the issue in a rather more visual way.

Australian owned, designed and manufactured floating solar solution launched into market after 4 years R&D, bringing under-utilised renewable energy option into budget for many organisations.

Singapore-based energy traders with ENGIE Global Markets (EGM) have extended their specialist weather insights contract with MetraWeather (Australia) Pty Ltd.

Musk tweets about a mini electric car. Twitter goes wild.

Will the states agree to "thoughtfully do nothing" about climate change and sign up to the NEG? Turnbull says they must listen to the energy experts. But which ones?

Australia’s big three gen-tailers continue their orgy of money making at the expense of consumers, with the owner of the ageing Yallourn brown coal generator trebling its profits.

Elon Musk lets his "super kick-ass" AI technology out of the bag, bringing automated driving a step closer.

Money was awarded at a meeting with Malcolm Turnbull and Josh Frydenberg, with no tender process

Labor has called for a $444m government grant to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation to be returned.

It comes after the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, defended the decision to award the money to the small private foundation and said it had been subject to “a very thorough process”.

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Two Norwegians conduct a race, or more truthfully an economy trial, between a Hyundai Kona Electric and a Tesla Model X, using different charging networks.

This year alone corporations around the world have purchased 7.2 GW worth of clean energy, surpassing 2017’s 5.4 GW, which is a record in itself.

The deadly Mendocino complex fire in the north may be the second-largest in state history

Plumes of smoke towered over flame-engulfed mountains in northern California on Monday as firefighters grappled with what may be, by some measures, the second-largest wildfire in state history.

At a community hall in a small farming community 121 miles north-east of San Francisco, Renato Lira, an American Red Cross disaster services worker, looked through photos on his phone of the fire he had just driven through to set up an evacuation center. As he flicked, his screen turned red.

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Management at a speculative gold mining company would blush at some of the outrageous claims made in the modelling the ESB “leans heavily on” to justify the NEG.

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Agriculture minister David Littleproud tells ABC audience he doesn’t ‘give a rats’ whether climate change is man-made

The agriculture minister says linking the drought affecting much of Australia to man-made climate change is a “big call” and he does not “give a rats if it’s man-made or not”.

David Littleproud made the comment on the ABC’s Q&A program on Monday, which was filmed in Lismore in the northern rivers region of New South Wales. His comment was booed by the audience.

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New York’s Independent System Operator (NYISO) on Friday published its draft recommendations for adding a carbon price to the state’s wholesale power markets next decade that would deduct the cost of RGGI allowances purchased at quarterly auctions.

The National Energy Guarantee faces a crunch test this week. And if the climate wars of the past few decades are any guide, Australian policies more often sink than swim when the waters get choppy. Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Researchers warn that even limited climate warming could trigger conditions not seen in a million years.