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Animal antibiotics are far cheaper than the human equivalent but fears are growing over their real cost

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How much money do pharmaceutical companies earn from animal antibiotics?

Pharmaceutical companies are earning about $5bn (£3.77bn) a year from producing antibiotics for farm animals, according to calculations by Animal Pharm, the agricultural business analysts. The European animal antibiotics market is worth about $1.25bn a year, and the US animal antibiotics industry about $2bn a year.

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Australia’s coal-fired generation capacity could be little more than a twinkle in Tony Abbott’s eye by as early as 2050, when renewables are forecast to provide 92 per cent of the country's electricity.

Labour says figures show government’s commitment to green energy is ‘nothing but an empty PR move’

New solar power installations halved in the UK last year for the second year in a row, as the fallout of government subsidy cuts continued to shake the sector.

Labour said the figures showed the government’s commitment to green energy was “nothing but an empty PR move”.

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New Zealand carbon allowances edged up from 6-month lows on Tuesday as some buyers stepped in to take advantage of the bargain prices.

The Clean Energy Regulator has announced the results of the seventh ERF auction.

Taronga Western Plains zoo has welcomed a new member into its fold –a female Asian elephant.  The calf was born of Friday 14 June and is now bonding with her mother, Porntip

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Nation is a leader in capturing tidal and wave energy, but companies are starting to leave due to lack of government support

Britain is throwing away its opportunity to rule the global wave and tidal energy sector due to lack of government support, a series of leading developers have told the Guardian.

The nation is currently seen as a world leader in capturing renewable energy from the oceans but some companies are already heading for new shores. This is putting other countries, such as France and Canada, in prime position to capitalise on the jobs being created by the emerging industry, the companies say.

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More logging will occur in NSW if conservation areas are rezoned by the state government. Oisín Sweeney, Senior Ecologist at the National Parks Association of NSW, Research Fellow, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

ASX-listed packaging giant Orora signs second renewable energy PPA in matter of months, this time with 228MW Lal Lal wind farm in Victoria.

Puan left an "incredible legacy" of descendants for the critically endangered species, keepers say.

Just as in almost every other industry these days, it pays to keep a close eye on what happens in the Middle Kingdom.

Massachusetts Senate unanimously passes energy bill promising to dramatically reshape the vehicles and fuels that power its transportation system.

James Hansen, who gave a climate warning in 1988 Senate testimony, says real hoax is by leaders claiming to take action

Thirty years after a former Nasa scientist sounded the alarm for the general public about climate change and human activity, the expert issued a fresh warning that the world is failing “miserably” to deal with the worsening dangers.

While Donald Trump and many conservatives like to argue that climate change is a hoax, James Hansen, the 77-year-old former Nasa climate scientist, said in an interview at his home in New York that the relevant hoax today is perpetrated by those leaders claiming to be addressing the problem.

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Claxton, Norfolk: Two plants make completely separate responses to the sun and draw an array of flying insects

At this time of year I love to watch the sun-oriented movement of my garden. By this I mean the way in which our oxeye daisies and cat’s-ear flowers turn in relation to the same source.

In what you might call their dormant state, at about 8am – when the day is bright but temperature neutral – the flowers of both, as well as most of my yellow rattle blooms, are all pretty much oriented north-east. Then, as the day fires up, the daisies and cat’s-ears drop their heads and tilt due east the better to catch the light.

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UNSW academics compare campaign against wind and solar and high renewable energy scenarios led by pro-nuclear lobbyists to efforts by the tobacco industry to sow fear and uncertainty and delay action.

CSIRO launches Energise app, to create “two-way communication channel” between energy experts and consumers.

The NEG does nothing. It won’t lower prices, it won’t reduce the large gentailer influence, it won’t bring about new investment. In short, it's fraud as far as policy goes.

A battery-powered plane is Norway's latest part of the country’s plan to combat climate change.

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