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New study shows that solar plants can provide flexibility for grid operator that reduces use of thermal generators and battery storage, and delivers even lower emissions.

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The myth that coal power equates to grid reliability is not unique to Australia. Here's what happened when an old clunker was removed from the grid in northern Illinois.

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Bullying and harassment helpline could help people working in the sciences.

Hollywood director Ron Howard talked to the BBC about creating a realistic depiction of the first human colonies on Mars.

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A new study says that big hydro electricity projects in Europe and the US have been disastrous for the environment.

Current EU carbon prices around €16-17 per tonne are "acceptable" to Poland, the country’s energy minister said this weekend after urging for the European Commission over the past two months to intervene and cool the market.

The 33-year-old was bitten in Cid Harbour in the same waters where two tourists were mauled in September

A man who was attacked by a shark in Cid Harbour in the Whitsundays has died in hospital.

The 33-year-old Victorian man had been on a charter boat with friends on Monday and had gone paddle boarding and then swimming, police said, before he was bitten about 5.30pm.

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Quebec saw higher fuel emissions in the final two years of its cap-and-trade programme's second compliance period to cause a shortage of available allowance supply, making it a net buyer in the Western Climate Initiative (WCI), data shows.

Upper layer above northern hemisphere should be completely repaired in 2030s

The ozone layer is showing signs of continuing recovery from man-made damage and is likely to heal fully by 2060, new evidence shows.

The measures taken to repair the damage will also have an important beneficial effect on climate change, as some of the gases that caused the ozone layer to thin and in places disappear also contribute to warming the atmosphere. Phasing them out could avoid as much as 0.5C (0.9F) of warming this century.

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More and more people are adopting plant-based diets in Australia and other western nations. But also seemingly on the rise is resentment towards vegans and vegetarians. Tani Khara, PhD student in Sustainability, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The European Commission is urging EU states to file a difference to the rulebook on the UN’s CORSIA, a Commission official said Monday, a move that casts further doubt on the future of the aviation offsetting scheme.

European carbon prices held above €17 on Monday, recovering from an earlier drop spurred by a weak and somewhat peculiar auction result.

Rare sighting in the Canadian Arctic leads to concern they could become trapped as winter approaches

A rare sighting of sperm whales in the Canadian Arctic is the latest sign of a quickly changing ecosystem, say scientists.

Brandon Laforest, a marine biologist with the World Wildlife Fund, and guide Titus Allooloo were working on a project monitoring the effect of marine traffic on the region’s narwhal population when they spotted the pair of large whales just outside Pond Inlet, a community at the northern tip of Baffin Island in September.

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Governments should wait two or three years before setting a global aviation emission goal in case they "lose focus" on implementing the CORSIA offsetting mechanism, which is designed to limit emissions at 2020 levels, senior aviation representatives told a conference Monday.

Coloured eggs evolved millions of years ago in the dinosaurs and may have functioned as camouflage.

ICIS has added to its growing roster of analysts by hiring a veteran EU ETS expert.

Leaked memo shows managers were given 24 hours to name 75 staff to be redeployed to work on a no-deal scenario

The environment department has been accused of “panic” over Brexit after a leaked document revealed the emergency redeployment of staff to prepare for a no-deal scenario.

Managers at the Environment Agency (EA) were given just 24 hours to name 75 staff to be sent to the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). In September, the National Audit Office said Michael Gove’s department will not be ready for a no-deal Brexit, with meat and dairy and chemicals exports especially threatened.

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Spanish renewable energy developer FRV says Goonumbla solar project in NSW was one of the eight winning bids in the tender held by Snowy Hydro.

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The DNA secrets of a flower thought to have inspired a Greek legend have been cracked by scientists.