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RCR’s scope of works for the project includes engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of the expanded Solar Farm, with an immediate project start and targeted completion in Q2, 2019.

Over summer there were 16 major breakdowns at Victoria’s three brown coal plants, which saw hundreds of megawatts of capacity withdrawn from the grid almost instantly.

A scientific cruise next year will look for Ernest Shackleton's famous lost ship given the opportunity.

An international expedition next year will try to reach the site of a major new iceberg.

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The incumbent will be responsible for development and implementation of U.S Forest Compliance Offset Protocols, as well as other Protocols, for the reporting and verification of voluntary GHG emissions reductions by offset project developers to support the Cap-and-Trade Program.  

IHS Markit's Energy Wide Perspectives team have an exciting opportunity within the Climate and Carbon team as a Senior Analyst. This position will be based from the IHS Markit corporate headquarters in London.

The nine RGGI member states submitted comments to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ) website on Monday, suggesting that the state’s cap-and-trade-programme include a tighter allowance budget and share more regulatory alignment with the Northeast US carbon market.

European carbon prices lifted on Monday as observers eyed a resumption of gains ahead of the annual compliance deadline in the wake of the first weekly price decline of the year.

Light-coloured roads and rooftop gardens are planning measures being employed to combat rising urban temperatures

With summer still apparently a long way off, it seems premature to be worrying about heatwaves but they are becoming as great a threat to life as winter cold. Predictions are that, in summer, most European cities could become as much as 10C hotter by the end of this century, testing the old and very young who both have trouble regulating body temperature.

Related: Urban heat islands: cooling things down with trees, green roads and fewer cars

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Across large ares of Australia, rocky outcrops are being obliterated to open up more land for farming. But many of these "bush rocks" are refuges for fragile ecosystems. Damian R. Michael, Senior Research Officer, Australian National University David Lindenmayer, Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Achieving newly-proposed emission reductions goals as part of California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) remains uncertain due to both market and regulatory concerns, which could impact the viability of the clean fuel standard as a whole.

Securing rights to cultural flows would provide employment and skills for Indigenous communities along river system

• Murray-Darling: when the river runs dry

When the water levels of the Darling river fall, local elders in Wilcannia, New South Wales, say, the crime rate spikes, particularly juvenile crime.

It seems like an odd correlation until the elders explain just how important the river is to their everyday lives.

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Analysis shows 94% of the 5,000 estimated koala deaths due to habitat loss from 2012 to 2016 occurred outside the state’s heavily developed south-east

Environmentalists estimate that tree clearing in regional and rural Queensland is now 15 times more destructive to the state’s koala populations than urban sprawl.

Development, and the loss of koala habitat for housing and infrastructure, was considered a key reason why the koala was added to the “vulnerable” species list in 2012.

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The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) proposed new amendments on Friday for its electricity sector cap-and-trade programme intended to operate in parallel to RGGI.

Cambridge University researchers find human cancer drugs could halt the extinction of the marsupial.

A fossil find from Saudi Arabia adds to growing evidence that modern humans left Africa earlier than supposed.

The A’I Cofan in the Amazon fight back against small-scale miners invading their land and new, large-scale concessions upriver

Three A’I Cofan men were staring down at a pit of rocks, dead foliage and filthy water where two gold-panners were working. Beyond was a sluice and hoses running down to the rushing, green waters of the River Aguarico. To the right, there was mud, more rocks, more equipment, a makeshift tent and camp. Behind, to the left, a Hyundai excavator and a track running downriver.

No more than two weeks before, no track had existed and all this had been primary forest. Now that was gone. Only an area about 110 x 50 metres, you might say, but this is how gold rushes start.

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Official files show government expects 973,000 households to face increased daytime noise

More than 2 million people would be exposed to additional aircraft noise if Heathrow builds a third runway, according to a government analysis.

Ministers have argued that Britain’s biggest airport will affect fewer people with noise in future, due to quieter planes. But government calculations suggest a new runway would still have a negative impact on nearly a million households, or 2.2 million people.

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Australia has issued nearly 1.1 million carbon credits over the past two weeks, with around 40% of them going to landfill operator LMS Energy, data from the Clean Energy Regulator showed.