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AEMC rule changes would give consumers more control over the energy market, and reduce the ability of generators to exploit their market power. This could be a huge win.

76 UK Tesla Owners won over crowds at a popular UK car racing event, with offers of test drives, and an all-electric victory lap.

High Fields, Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire: These exhausted hay meadows, now owned by the National Trust, are on the way to being restored

Climbing up from the top of Coombs Dale, I turn up a rough road known as Black Harry Lane. I don’t know the origins of the name; my hunch would be that it’s related to the region’s distant lead-mining past. There was an 18th-century highwayman called Black Harry, who was gibbeted nearby, but he was named after the packhorse road, not the other way round.

On a warm summer’s evening, there is nothing malevolent about the place. The verges are thick with flowers: meadow crane’s-bill, a flower that when I notice it reminds me I’m home, its commonplace purple threaded with the subtler, paler scabious. The track itself has needed heavy repairs in recent years, thanks to off-road enthusiasts, whose local reputation, like that of highwaymen, is mixed.

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Alinta seeks offers for renewable projects 50MW or bigger to help deliver 1000MW of wind and solar by 2020, helping it "make good" on its recent shortfalls.

During this total eclipse, Earth's natural satellite will turn a striking shade of red or ruddy brown.

Fast Cities Australia secures $7m to start work on a 42 station EV fast-charging "national backbone" which it says will "calatyse" Australia's electric vehicle industry.

The modelling for the National Energy Guarantee appears agenda driven, and should be released before the COAG meeting for the sake of clarity.

A pathogen is killing kauri trees in New Zealand and now threatens an ancient, sacred giant. The response to the biosecurity incursion pales in comparison to recent threats to agricultural crops. Matthew Hall, Associate Director, Research Services, Victoria University of Wellington Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Today, Goldwind, hosted a Local Industry Briefing event in Bothwell to share further details about local opportunities for the Cattle Hill Wind Farm project.

Numurkah solar farm, which will help power Laverton steel works and Victoria trams, reaches financial close, with developers Neoen wondering why Australia is not more ambitious about renewables.

Friday night's lunar eclipse will last longer than any in the 21st Century.

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This position serves as one of the agency’s statewide experts in climate change mitigation policy; providing technical analysis, consultation, and policy development, in addition to interacting with other state and national experts in climate change policy, stakeholder groups, and elected officials. The successful candidate will evaluate and develop climate change policy recommendations for DEQ’s senior management team and director, as well as participate in the development of legislation and regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) prices overcame a slight retreat in prices this week to reach another record on Thursday, after market participants digested reports that the US federal government may end the state’s higher fuel economy and zero-emissions vehicle (ZEV) standards.

North American carbon prices and volumes rose modestly along both coasts this week as the WCI market shrugged off the introduction of a bill to rescind Ontario’s cap-and-trade programme, while increased buying helped lift RGGI allowances.

EU carbon prices held above €17 on Thursday, briefly dipping below that mark earlier in the session on a weak auction and sliding power prices before a late recovery sent EUAs back towards the previous settle.

Sudden weather change after weeks of drought could cause flooding and crop damage

Farmers across many parts of the UK are bracing themselves for thunderstorms and outbursts of heavy rain after weeks of drought and high temperatures.

The sudden change in the weather, expected to affect eastern areas hardest but spreading to the north and Midlands over Friday, is likely to cause problems of flooding and potential crop damage.

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As the northern hemisphere endures record breaking temperatures,  scientists and meteorologists are looking at the possible causes. Climate change is partly responsible, but the summer has also featured unusual jet stream activity, which is bringing the subtropical heat north 

• UK ‘woefully unprepared’ for deadly heatwaves, warn MPs

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Approval of Chinese nuclear technology in the UK would act as a springboard to the rest of the world

China wants to become a global leader in nuclear power and the UK is crucial to realising its ambitions.

While other countries have scaled back on atomic energy in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, state-backed Chinese companies benefit from the fact that China is still relying on nuclear energy to reach the country’s low-carbon goals.

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The remaining wilderness areas, mostly in the remote Pacific and at the poles, need urgent protection from fishing and pollution, scientists say

Just 13% of the world’s oceans remain untouched by the damaging impacts of humanity, the first systematic analysis has revealed. Outside the remotest areas of the Pacific and the poles, virtually no ocean is left harbouring naturally high levels of marine wildlife.

Huge fishing fleets, global shipping and pollution running off the land are combining with climate change to degrade the oceans, the researchers found. Furthermore, just 5% of the remaining ocean wilderness is within existing marine protection areas.

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