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One of the UK's most endangered songbirds is no longer on the brink of extinction, the RSPB says.

Jenny Paradiso was last night named the 2016 Australian Telstra Business Women’s Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Impact Investment Group has backed Australian start-up nu-tility, becoming a major shareholder in Australia’s first fully integrated energy solutions provider.

NGOs gearing up to battle Trump on a host of issues, including climate change, may have more public support than ever.

JinkoSolar has posted a set of strong Q3 financials that serve to highlight the current challenges facing the solar industry.

Climate denier Marc Morano got himself kicked out of UN climate talks in Marrakech. But something about the incident was not right.

Sydney Renewable Power Company is offering 519 unlisted shares to community and retail investors keen to invest in a 520kW solar array on Sydney’s new International Convention Centre.

High solar tariff helps Australia's first community-owned retailer reach major milestone, as it plans geographic expansion and push into new concepts such as peer-to-peer trading.g

As the world awaits Trump's call on Paris, China answer's his 2012 claim that climate change is a Big Chinese Hoax.

A third structure is found within the famous Kukulkan pyramid in eastern Mexico, experts say.

Two international reports name Australia among a small number of G20 nations whose climate change efforts are falling well short of other countries.

Australia earns "fossil of the day" award in Marrakech after using climate talks to lobby for Adani coal mine. ACT, meanwhile, calls for coal moratorium.

Marrakech communique commits countries including Australia to reducing emissions from the oil and gas industry

Australia has signed an international agreement committing to reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas industry, and calling for other countries to do the same, sparking claims it is being hypocritical and could “seriously damage our reputation in climate talks”.

The Marrakech communique, signed this week at the first meeting of parties to the Paris agreement in Morocco, commits a coalition of countries including Australia to take measures to reduce methane emissions in the oil and gas industry.

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Two reports place the country near the bottom of the league for emissions level, use of renewables and action to combat global warming

Australia has been singled out again as a climate laggard, being ranked fifth-worst for emissions and policies among developed countries and among the six worst countries in the G20 when it comes to climate action.

In the climate change performance index, released overnight at the UN climate talks in Marrakech, Australia comes ahead of only Kazakhstan, South Korea, Japan and Saudi Arabia.

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In its first World Energy Outlook since Paris, the International Energy Agency makes clear that commitments to the pact equal near full decarbonisation of energy around 2040 – and that means Australia, too.

JinkoSolar today announced the completion of the sale of all of the 55% equity interest it indirectly held in Jiangxi JinkoSolar Engineering Co

Jinko Solar’s PV modules are 100% in compliance with IEC62804 double 85 anti-PID Standards.

Energy minister Josh Frydenberg raises concern with American counterpart over US activists seeking to stop Adani’s giant Carmichael coalmine

Australia has used a summit on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to lobby the US energy minister in support of the development of one of the world’s largest coalmines.

The move, by the Australian environment and energy minister, Josh Frydenberg, at the Marrekech meeting, won Australia the “fossil of the day” award, announced daily by the Climate Action Network to the countries that perform the worst at UN climate talks.

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A new report has found illegal poaching and trafficking of wildlife continues to rise as Asian demand reaches new heights.

Scientists at Rutgers University in New Jersey are trying to identify what kinds of music different bird species prefer by using a specially designed bird feeder.