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The creature lived more than 90 million years ago and its remains were found poking out of the mud.

Plans to install a 500MW wind farm 20km off the coast of Perth are being investigated by UK outfit Flotation Energy.

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Neoen ends 2021 in Australia by achieving full-scale commercial operations at the Bulgana Green Power Hub, a 204MW wind farm paired with a 20MW/34MWh battery in Victoria.

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ARENA opens up to $40m in funding to expressions of interest from projects that promise to materially reduce the levelised cost of solar.

The post Ultra-low cost solar “stretch goal” gets federal funding boost appeared first on RenewEconomy.

This role will be accountable for setting the bank's climate strategy and commitments with respect to Financed Emissions, Sustainability Funding Target and Green Opportunities.

The Senior Adviser (Carbon Neutral Programme) within Strategy and Planningwill support, plan and deliver initiatives within MPI's Carbon Neutral Programme strategy and the SLT's priorities internally and externally.

Australia’s stunning solar year that was 2021 ended with a final flourish, after December delivered a record for utility-scale PV generation.

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Korea Zinc’s boosts bid to make its Australian operations greenest in the world, in deal with Swiss "giga-scale" energy storage company, Energy Vault.

The post Sun Metals taps gravity energy storage tech in shift to “green zinc” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Years of ill-conceived farming practices have contributed to India's worsening air pollution.

An industry group is calling for more funding for home improvements to help bring down the cost of heating homes.

Hollywood’s primer on climate denial illustrates five myths that fuel the rejection of science – including a favourite of Australia's federal government.

The post “Don’t Look Up:” Hollywood tackles the myths that fuel climate denial appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Surfing’s benefits to well-being aren’t often studied in economics terms. This is a major gap in our knowledge we’re now trying to fill. Ana Manero, Research Fellow, Australian National University Alaya Spencer-Cotton, Research assistant, The University of Western Australia Javier Leon, Senior lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast Neil Lazarow, Senior Research Consultant, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Social enterprise wins grant to send out composting worms that can turn waste into high-grade fertiliser

It used to be that the early bird would get the worm, but households, schools and even prisons can now have the invertebrates delivered free to their door – if they get a wriggle on.

A Nottingham-based initiative, the Urban Worm Community Interest Company (UWC), is on a mission to “worm up” the UK by kickstarting an urban worm farming movement that can create high-grade fertiliser from banana skins and old socks.

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Government refusal to link carbon market to EU’s has led to higher cost for British businesses

British businesses are paying substantially more to produce carbon dioxide than their EU rivals because of the government’s refusal to link the UK carbon market to the bigger European market after Brexit.

The difference is putting UK industry at a significant competitive disadvantage to European rivals, at a time of soaring energy prices, but does not result in any additional benefit to the environment.

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To protect game birds, the government has decided it’s fine to kill crows and jackdaws

With a zillion images of themselves to choose from, many taken by a reverent state photographer, Boris and Carrie Johnson used a picture of their dog, Dilyn, for their recent Christmas card.

If unlikely to appeal to the current pope, the pet is, they presumably concluded, more generally inoffensive, ostensibly uninvolved in the family’s tireless requisitioning of free luxury goods and, on a more positive note, a pointed reminder of the household’s remaining claim to virtue. Or if that’s putting it too strongly: to their formal recognition as sentient beings.

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The TV adventurer says he hopes the honest stories in his shows mitigate their environmental impact.

Globetrotting presenter hopes ‘value’ of programmes offsets their carbon footprint

Explorer and television presenter Simon Reeve is troubled by the carbon footprint of the travel documentaries he makes and sometimes feels a hypocrite, he has confessed.

Talking candidly about his climate change guilt and also reflecting on his unhappy teenage years on Sunday’s Desert Island Discs, Reeve accepts that his journeys to Australia, Cuba and the Caribbean with the BBC have given him a damaging environmental record.

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Government scheme to replace EU agricultural payments fuelled by ‘blind optimism’ and still lacking crucial details, say MPs

The government’s plans for a post-Brexit scheme to support British farming are based on little more than “blind optimism” and risk increasing the UK’s reliance on food imports, a parliamentary inquiry has warned.

The EU’s scheme of subsidies – known as the common agricultural policy (CAP) and worth £3bn-a-year to UK farmers – was one of the long-running complaints of Eurosceptics, who saw the ability of Britain to draw up its own scheme of payments as one of the major benefits of Brexit. Ministers had said the new scheme would be used to increase the environmental benefits of agriculture.

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Israeli researchers say their fish – named after characters from Pride and Prejudice – reveal navigation is a universal ability

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It might be an imaginary character straight out of a Dr Seuss book: The goldfish who could drive. But it’s real. Incredibly, Israeli researchers created a robotic car and report that they taught six fish – named after characters from Pride and Prejudice – to navigate it on land.

It’s all in the name of science, of course. The team had been dreaming up ways to test fish navigation for a while, according to Shachar Givon from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, first author of a study published in the journal Behavioural Brain Research.

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Crises such as public health must be met by the state and there’s the Conservatives’ rub

Conservatives look like cranks today, not because of personal failings of this or that politician, but because they cannot deal with the crises of the modern world. It’s not that they don’t have answers – rightwing thinkers spit them out faster than a machine gun fires bullets. It’s just that their answers are irrelevant and, even in Tory terms, self-defeating.

All viable responses to global warming, vaccination, the job losses artificial intelligence will bring and failing public health enhance the role of the state. It must provide jobs and benefits to society’s losers, protect their health and drastically reconfigure markets to sustain the planet. Small states that allow sovereign individuals and companies to decide for themselves now feel as antiquated as Margaret Thatcher’s handbag and pearls.

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