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Fitted with a body camera, a sewer engineer tries to remove a blockage.

While Tony Abbott's London climate speech has been widely criticised, research suggests his views have long had a sympathetic ear in Australia's coal heartland. Vanessa Bowden, Associate Lecture in Social Enquiry, University of Newcastle Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

As the Clean Energy Target fades away, perhaps a Dispatchable Reliable Energy Target will be innocuous enough to pass the Liberal party room and the Senate. Alan Pears, Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The uptake of solar – by consumers and in large-scale solar farms – could be far quicker than anyone is currently contemplating. If this is managed well, with battery and other forms of storage, there will be little need for many of the remaining coal generators.

TAI report shows 64% of all party supporters in favour of policies to increase EV uptake – so what aren't governments doing?

The famous World Solar Challenge was won for the seventh time by the Netherlands’ Nuon Solar team.

Australia Institute wants free access to bus lanes after electric cars accounted for just 0.1% of new car sales in 2015

Tax breaks and free access to bus lanes should be used to help reverse Australia’s poor uptake of electric vehicles, a new report has said.

Australians remain deeply reluctant to buy electric cars, which accounted for just 0.1% of new car sales in 2015. Australia is increasingly falling behind other countries, particularly in Europe, where sales of electric cars represented 1.2% of new European Union car sales in the same year.

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The UK Government has announced an ambitious new Clean Growth Strategy to drastically cut carbon emissions and combat climate change.

UK-based Foresight Solar Fund Limited continues Australian buying spree, taking shares in three Queensland projects under development.

We will never have an effective broad-based emission reduction policy – no matter who is in government. Best to look at alternatives, like reverse auctions.

A UK-assembled satellite is set to go into orbit shortly to monitor air quality around the globe.

MPower tapped by Endeavour Energy to install 1MWh battery on network in NSW, in a trial hoped to save $1m a year on grid costs.

What will it take to build the ultra-fast internet of the future?

Clock ticks down on Victoria government's plans to have two large scale battery storage projects in place by January 1, with the winners still not known.

China is to stop or delay work on 151 planned and under-construction coal plants as Beijing struggles to respond to a flat-lining of demand for coal power.

What do you get when you bring together some of Australia’s most fervent climate science deniers with anti-Islam activists, fledgling right-wing political groups, and an American “free market” Libertarian?

New polling shows two thirds of voters would prefer to see governments increasing energy conservation rather than building new power stations.

Environmentalists hail decision that comes almost exactly a year after BP ditched its own scheme for the untapped basin

Chevron has become the second big oil company to abandon plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight, almost exactly a year after BP ditched its more advanced plans for the untapped basin.

Oil companies have compared the potential of the bight to the Gulf of Mexico, where there are thousands of oil rigs.

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After failure of Adélie penguins to breed, WWF calls for measures to ensure they do not face competition from fishing fleets for food

Only two Adélie penguin chicks from a colony of more than 18,000 breeding pairs have survived the Antarctic summer due to unusually extensive sea ice, prompting environmental campaigners to call for a new protected marine area.

The penguins in Terre Adélie in eastern Antarctica, which only reproduce on ice-free land, suffered a catastrophic breeding season after unseasonable growth in sea ice forced parents to travel further for food, causing their chicks to starve.

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New data from a NASA satellite show in unprecedented detail the flow of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Future satellites should even be able to detect the signatures of individual power stations. Pep Canadell, CSIRO Scientist, and Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Alex Held, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Cathy Trudinger, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Peter Rayner, Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne Vanessa Haverd, Research Scientist, Carbon Water Observatory, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.