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California judge William Alsup put out a list of questions for a climate change ‘tutorial’ in a global warming case

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New cane toad traps that carefully imitate mating males successfully target breeding females. Males, meanwhile, will turn up for anything that sounds remotely like a toad. Lin Schwarzkopf, Professor in Zoology, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Neoen begins work on new Tesla big battery and 194MW wind farm that will provide 100% renewables to biggest glass-house in Australia.

The ACT electricity network owner, Evoenergy, has conducted the largest and most comprehensive demand management (DM) trials in Australia.

NSW pricing regulator flags a cut to state's solar feed-in tariff, linked to fall in wholesale power prices rooftop solar helped deliver.

New premier Steve Marshall is feeling the heat for placing the future of Tesla's battery plans in doubt.. Maybe now he will go the whole hog and target nearly 100,000 homes with storage.

Victoria government backed plan to convert disused Bendigo mineshafts into pumped hydro energy storage will undergo full feasibility studies.

Can Australia reach 50% renewables without compromising grid stability? The experts – and even the major energy stakeholders of business and industry – all say yes. We're just waiting on the right policy.

The Santos project would be exempt from complete fire bans and allowed to flare gas, even in catastrophic fire weather

Firefighters with decades of experience working around the bushfire-prone Pilliga forest say Santos’s controversial Narrabri gas project will create an unacceptable fire risk to workers at the site, as well as to surrounding properties.

Those firefighters, who have also opposed the project on other environmental grounds, say fires in the area can be so fast and ferocious that in some weather conditions the project site would need to be evacuated, since if a fire did start there would likely not be enough time to evacuate workers.

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Sundrop Farms and Nectar Farms have turned to wind, solar and battery storage to underpin their push for controlled "vertical farms".

The public is being asked to report damage to garden plants from visiting wild deer.

But there are opportunities to cash in on the "ocean economy", a major report for the UK government says.

There are calls for strong action, including criminal prosecution, following a fatal accident involving an Uber self-driving car

The Assistant Minister has approved the inclusion of Coastal Swamp Oak Forest of New South Wales and South East Queensland in the Endangered category on the list of threatened ecological communities, under the Environment Protection and...

The Assistant Minister has approved the inclusion of Coastal Swamp Oak Forest of New South Wales and South East Queensland in the Endangered category on the list of threatened ecological communities, under the Environment Protection and...

Dinosaurs may have evolved horns and frills to attract a mate, according to a new study.

Peers vote for the UK to remain in Euratom until a post-Brexit replacement deal is in place.

It's a scientific blitz of massive proportions, covering millions of hectares of bush across the Northern Territory and Western Australia in the first cross border survey of the species.

Australia Institute says commonwealth paid far more than initial price for Condamine-Balonne river system buyback

“Monty Pythonesque” is how the Australia Institute has described the federal government’s decision to pay $80m for a water buyback in the Condamine-Balonne river system in Queensland last year.

The Guardian reported this month that the company selling the water to the commonwealth, Eastern Australian Agriculture, had immediately recorded a $52m gain on the sale of its water in July 2017. The company itself had valued the water rights much lower in its accounts.

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The world's last male northern white rhino has died leaving only two females left to save the subspecies from extinction.