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Victoria says response to Australia's largest renewable energy auction has been extremely strong and expects prices to be "very competitive".

Britain's carbon emissions have sunk to the level last seen in 1890, helped by reduced coal use.

Guidelines for round 2 of the Solar Communities Program are now available. Round 2 of the Program will be open to applications from 13 March 2018 to 31 May 2018.

Guidelines for round 2 of the Solar Communities Program are now available. Round 2 of the Program will be open to applications from 13 March 2018 to 31 May 2018.

From this auction, the agency will be able to purchase between 25 and 100 per cent below the benchmark price.

University to install 1.2MW of solar and a 0.5MW/2MWh vanadium flow redox battery system, cut its grid electricity consumption by 40%.

EXCLUSIVE: Neoen, operator of the Tesla big battery, now plan a "hydrogen superb" in South Australia with 150MW of solar, 150MW of wind, a 50MW hydrogen electrolyser and up to 400MWh of battery storage.

A paper in Nature Climate Change presents the results from a new modelling exercise using six different “integrated assessment models” (IAMs) to limit global temperatures in 2100 to below 1.5C.

South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory contribute a combined total of just 6.3% to the nation's total scope 1 emissions. Can you guess the common denominator?

Bational register of Australia’s home battery installations would cost around $10m, but would remove potential huge "blind spot" and could improve power system security.

The creation of climate models with open source code, available for anyone to use, has improved scientific collaboration and helped research get more efficient. Martin Jucker, Maritime Continent Research Fellow, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Less than 50% of Australia’s original wilderness still exists, thanks to the colonialist view that development of land means eliminating native vegetation

Kate (not her real name) and her husband have run cattle grazing properties in central Queensland for more than 30 years. On remote and isolated properties like that, communities are close-knit and neighbours rely on each other to survive.

But Kate says her neighbours hate her family. Their crime? Not cutting down enough trees.

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The next phase of the Iris project to streamline European air traffic management is initiated.

Four dementia scientists share this year's 1m euro prize for their pivotal work.

Tax exemption for all-new zero-emission electric taxi brought forward in boost for new greener cabs

Prospects for London’s new electric taxi have been boosted after the Treasury brought forward a £1,550 tax exemption to this April.

The British-built, zero-emission capable taxi had been liable for a luxury car tax, introduced in 2017, of £310 per year for five years, deterring cab drivers from upgrading to the greener vehicle.

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Sudan, whose future was "not looking bright", rallies slightly as his carers treat his wounds.

A family found the message, dropped in 1886 by a German ship, on a remote beach in West Australia.

Diver Rich Horner has captured video of himself swimming through water densely strewn with plastic waste and yellowing food wrappers, with the occasional tropical fish darting around.

The footage was shot at a dive site called Manta Point, a cleaning station for the large rays on the island of Nusa Penida, about 20km from the popular Indonesian holiday island of Bali.

• 'Plastic, plastic, plastic': British diver films sea of rubbish off Bali

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The aircraft carrier USS Lexington went down in the 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea, with 216 lives lost.

Tonya and Kym Illman discovered the oldest known message in a bottle washed up at a WA beach.