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Queensland property groups join forces to install solar and smart technology on 15,000 investment properties across the state, offering bill crunching PV to landlords and renters.

New IEA report reveals a striking resemblance between the path electric vehicle penetration is currently on, and the path solar PV has been charting.

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We need more focus on e-bikes and low speed EVs. My dream is a fold-up e-scooter with an integrated bag so it can become a wheelie bag on public transport.

The world-famous specimen is the world's best-preserved example of the extinct bird.

Stakeholder comments on potential updates and revisions to California’s cap-and-trade programme after 2020 have revealed a rift over the levels at which the state should set its various price tiers and how it should address overallocation in the scheme.

The gender gap in science subjects like physics is likely to persist for hundreds of years, study suggests.

The new director-general of the National Trust says the charity needs to reach out to people in urban areas.

North American carbon markets were relatively low-key this week, with east coast prices moving up 3% on a brief surge of buying interest, while WCI prices stagnated amid a lack of interest in outright futures.

Once upon a time, Erin Rhoads had no idea about what it meant to be eco-friendly. After watching one life-changing movie, she now lives a zero waste, plastic-free life.

The Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) on Thursday named a new co-chair, while the group’s managing body the World Bank announced a high-level forum on carbon pricing and competitiveness amid the release of a report on decarbonising the global power and chemicals sectors.

Invitation to comment on listing assessments for Dasycercus cristicauda, Pseudantechinus mimulus and Mesembriomys macrurus. The public consultation period will be open until 1 June 2018.

Calls for state governments to invest in long-term recycling and sustainable waste solutions
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The body representing Australian councils is urging the federal government to take seriously China’s effective ban on accepting shipments of plastic for recycling, warning it should not ignore potential implications for trade between the two countries.

The Australian Local Government Association is calling on state governments to stop treating hundreds of millions of dollars in landfill levies collected when rubbish was dumped as general revenue, and to instead invest it in long-term recycling and other sustainable waste solutions.

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How can you create public transport in the jungle without polluting it? The isolated Achuar peoples of Ecuador have created an ingenious solution.

How can you create public transport in the jungle without polluting it? The isolated Achuar peoples of Ecuador have created an ingenious solution.

• Latest in a string of investigations into Pruitt’s travel spending
  
• Trips included Disneyland and attendance at sporting games

The Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general will investigate agency administrator Scott Pruitt’s use of his official security detail on recent personal trips, the latest in a string of congressional, White House and internal investigations into his spending on security and travel.

The investigation comes at the request of Democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse, he announced on Thursday, a month after he asked Inspector General Arthur Elkins to look into Pruitt’s “unprecedented use” of his taxpayer-funded security detail documented in six weeks of obtained schedules and travel logs.

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We all know that tap water is better than buying bottled water, from an environmental standpoint at least. But what should you drink it out of? A single-use bottle, used multiple times, might be best. Trevor Thornton, Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Simon Lockrey, Research Fellow, RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

People across the UK have been enjoying unusually warm weather, but when can we call it a heatwave?

In an example of human natural selection, Asia's Bajau people have evolved bigger spleens for diving.

EU carbon prices fell to their lowest in a week on Thursday as a breach of a technical support level triggered selling despite a stronger auction.