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Like all predictions, these should be taken with a grain of salt ...

At the beginning of every year, trend forecasters the world over put together expensive reports predicting what the future will bring. As a trend forecaster myself, I’ve read literally hundreds of predictions in the past few weeks made by the likes of McKinsey, WGSN and countless others so that you don’t have to. So, what do these professional speculators of the future think the next few years hold?

Many of the themes are predictable: automation, artificial intelligence, climate crisis and climate-related migration, virtual reality and augmented reality, China’s rising power, cryptocurrencies, Zoom, remote work and people agitating for their rights.

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Freezing temperatures have been recorded across the usually hot southern US state.

Conservationists and traditional owners want to ensure there is enough money to rehabilitate area when Glencore mining ends

Traditional owners and conservationists have launched legal action against the Northern Territory government over its decision to cut $120m from a bond held as insurance against any future environmental damage from the contentious McArthur River lead and zinc mine.

Lawyers for Jack Green and Josephine Davey Green, residents of the remote community of Borroloola, will argue the territory government’s November 2019 decision was unlawful.

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The unusual rock formations are scattered across the landscape of Egypt’s White desert, about 300 miles from Cairo

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The environment doesn’t need bureaucrats and inner city do-gooders knitting gluten-free leg warmers for houseless wallabies!

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JinkoSolar recently signed a large project in India with the two largest local EPC companies to deploy nearly 500MW of Tiger Pro high-efficiency modules.

The post Tiger Pro ensures the perfect combination of system safety and economy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

NSW network kicks off two-year community battery trial that aims to soak up consumer generated solar and use it to push down energy prices and help stabilise the local grid.

The post Ausgrid installs “first of many” community batteries on Sydney network appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AEMC seeks more time to consider 'complexities' of a call from large energy incumbents to force smaller generators to play by the same energy market rules.

The post Big Energy wants to bring small wind and solar generators to heel appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Research measuring how water flows between living kauri trees and a leafless stump adds evidence that trees use their underground root systems to support each other. Sebastian Leuzinger, Professor, Auckland University of Technology Martin Karl-Friedrich Bader, Senior Lecturer in Ecology, Auckland University of Technology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australian company will fast-track the production of a seaweed supplement that can almost entirely eliminate methane production by sheep and cows.

The post How a seaweed supplement can eliminate most emissions from cows and sheep appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Tilt Renewables completes turbine construction at Waipipi wind farm in New Zealand, breaking that country's long drought for large-scale wind projects.

The post Tilt completes Waipipi wind farm, breaks five-year drought for New Zealand appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AgriProve is looking for someone to administer and manage its portfolio of soil carbon projects under the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF).

Carbon Link is seeking a Carbon Farming Project Officer who is passionate about addressing the climate crisis and driving the transition to regenerative Agriculture.

If you're doing something (even if you know you probably shouldn't), you're more likely to think lots of other people do it too. You also likely overestimate how much other people think it's OK. Brock Bergseth, Postdoctoral research fellow, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The blossoms grow in eastern Australia, from the Blue Mountains to north-eastern Victoria. Their seeds can lay dormant for years, requiring exactly the right conditions to germinate – a year after bushfire followed by rainfall

• Dust bowls and deluges: the harsh beauty of South Australia

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Solving global warming would be “the most amazing thing humanity has done”, says the billionaire.

As artificial intelligence systems get more prevalent, some of us already have computers as managers.

Take a flight along phase one of the high-speed rail network – from London to Birmingham.

Wind surpassed coal as primary generation source in 2020 for Southwest Power Pool, the grid that supplies a vast territory stretching from Texas to the Canadian border.

The post Wind tops coal as number one generation source on major US grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AGL and Origin have failed to really embrace decarbonisation as opportunity. They have chosen to ignore the low cost of wind and solar for the supply of bulk energy,

The post Neither AGL nor Origin have convinced investors they have a future appeared first on RenewEconomy.