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Nissan sells 54,451 Leaf EVs as customers "embrace" the new model – but not in Australia, just yet.

APN Outdoor is addressing carbon emissions in the outdoor advertising industry

Commercial launch of the Terra HP fast charger places ABB at the forefront of EV-charging technology.

Last week, Australia’s largest generation unit tripped, sending frequency out of its normal band. What happened next explains why the smart grid has arrived.

Steven Zhou, General Manager for Huawei Smart PV Business Residential Solution, brought a new product launch to show the brilliant experience on residential PV solution to Australian solar market.

JinkoSolar announced today that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to partner with the Kazakhstan’s International Centre for Green Technologies and Investment Projects on solar power development.

Report says Hawaii could reach 100% renewables twice as fast as the current target suggests, and save billions along the way.

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The US EPA will begin treating CO2 emissions stemming from biomass combustion as carbon neutral, despite the agency’s own Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) having not settled on the issue.

Several stakeholders to the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard have urged regulator ARB to adopt an even stricter carbon intensity (CI) reduction target than in its latest proposal, while others have expressed concerns with the proposed third-party verification process and CCS protocol.

Carbon Pulse covered three North American carbon market conferences in the US and Canada over the past month. Here's a summary of the articles we filed from these events.

Global football governing body FIFA has teamed up with the UN to encourage fans travelling to this summer’s World Cup in Russia to offset their carbon emissions.

While recording sounds from whales and other marine life in remote areas, these machines collect information that can improve forecasting

Is it a bird? Is it a fish? No, it’s a robot. Scientists are deploying silent gliding robots to swoosh beneath the ocean waves, recording the singing of whales, clicks of dolphins, pitter-pattering of raindrops, humming of ship motors and crashing of waves during a storm.

These new torpedo-shaped robots are remotely controlled by pilots, using satellite to communicate. They are about the same size as a small person and can dive to depths of 1,000 metres (330 feet) and travel the seas for months at a time.

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A C$50 national carbon price will shave C$10 billion or 0.5% off Canada’s GDP by 2022, according to a parliamentary report published Monday.

Research into Queensland's Darling Downs area has found social stress caused by housing pressure, population shifts and the 'two-speed economy' of coal seam gas. Will Rifkin, Chair in Applied Regional Economics and Director, Hunter Research Foundation Centre, University of Newcastle Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Exclusive: Scientists say governments and corporations need to ‘legislate and incentivise’ to tackle ocean plastics

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Plastic has been found in ocean-floor sediments 2km below the surface in one of Australia’s most precious and isolated marine environments.

CSIRO scientists discovered the microplastic pieces while analysing samples taken hundreds of kilometres offshore at the bottom of the Great Australian Bight – a so-called “pristine” biodiversity hotspot and marine treasure.

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EU carbon prices lost ground for the third straight session on Monday, but recovered from an intraday three-week low as observers flagged the potential for further losses should EUAs break below a key technical support.

Hydrogen sulphide, the gas associated with the smell of rotten eggs, is detected in the atmosphere of Uranus.

Form of carbon incorporated into concrete created stronger, more water-resistant composite material that could reduce emissions

The novel “supermaterial” graphene could hold the key to making one of the oldest building materials greener, new scientific research suggests.

Graphene has been incorporated into traditional concrete production by scientists at the University of Exeter, developing a composite material which is more than twice as strong and four times more water-resistant than existing concretes.

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