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As the scale of plastic pollution in the world's oceans becomes ever more apparent, could bottle deposit schemes help turn the tide?

Longterm decline is blamed on loss of hedgerows and insect prey but urban hedgehogs may offer a glimmer of hope, says a new report

The number of hedgehogs living in the British countryside has plummeted by more than half since 2000, according to a new report.

The popular but prickly character topped a vote in 2013 to nominate a national species for Britain, but it has suffered as hedgerows are lost and the invertebrates it feasts on diminish. However, the survey offers a glimmer of hope as losses in towns and cities appear to have slowed and the numbers patrolling nighttime gardens may be increasing.

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Photographer Sean Gallagher has set up a new Instagram feed called Everyday Extinction. Featuring work from 25 wildlife photographers, photojournalists and scientists, the project aims to highlight species extinction and celebrate biodiversity

• Warning: this gallery contains some graphic images

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Case brought by group from Hunter Valley town, which it says has been devastated by Peabody Energy’s Wilpinjong mine

In what is described as a landmark case, a New South Wales court will be asked to overturn a decision to extend the life of a coalmine on the grounds the state government failed to properly consider the impact on the climate.

The case is brought by a community group from the tiny Hunter Valley village of Wollar, which it says has been devastated by the development and gradual expansion of the Wilpinjong coalmine over the past decade.

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Most of us lack the expertise to evaluate climate science, but there are ways anyone can spot a badly reasoned argument. Peter Ellerton, Lecturer in Critical Thinking, Director of the UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Redflow has today received in Australia the first battery electrode stacks made by its new Thailand facility.

Having brought 2017 to a close on a comparatively stable note, the VEEC market began 2018 in a far more spectacular fashion. ESC market has also started in a positive frame of mind.

Tasmania's Liberal government promises to boost state energy security with $200k solar and battery storage "microgrid," if re-elected.

With water storages running low, residents of Cape Town get drinking water in the early morning from a mountain spring collection point.

AGL have paid penalties totalling $60,000 in response to infringement notices issued by the Australian Energy Regulator (AER).

ICYMI, there's a red Tesla Roadster flying through space, on a billion-year elliptic Mars orbit. Why? Well that's just how Elon Musk rolls.

Windlab's 100MW, $200m Lakeland Wind Farm set to be built south of Cooktown in Queensland, after winning state government approval.

Tilt Renewables to build another SA big battery, next to new solar farm and existing Snowtown windfarm, and a 300MW/1350MWh pumped hydro project near Adelaide.

As Day Zero looms and the South African city gets set to run out of water, experts say lessons learned during Melbourne’s brush with a similar fate may help avert a global crisis

In December 2017, Seona Candy drove through the vineyards of the Franschhoek Valley near Cape Town towards the banks of the Sonderend river. In the late 1970s, the waterway was dammed to create the biggest reservoir in South Africa’s Western Cape. Behind the thick walls of the Theewaterskloof dam lay the capacity to hold 480 million cubic metres of water, nearly half of Cape Town’s water supply.

“When I got there, it was mostly dust,” Candy says.

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Hedgehogs are continuing to decline in the UK, particularly in rural areas, according to a new report.

A Scandinavian system for recycling bottles is thought likely to be adopted in the UK.

Responding to growing market demand, LONGi will invest $309 million, including about $240 million in construction investment and roughly $68 million in working capital, to double the capacity of its cell and module factory in Andhra Pradesh from 500MW to 1GW respectively.

The rocket's payload is Elon Musk's own Tesla, and two of the three rocket segments have landed.

Greensmith Energy, a part of the technology group Wärtsilä, has successfully completed two grid-scale energy storage systems in partnership with E.ON Climate & Renewables in Texas.

South African City of Cape Town could run out of drinking water in a matter of months, and that's sparked the question if Australia is prepared for similar crisis.