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While sentiment and confidence in Australia has improved thanks to significant climate policy progress, investors are waiting on the government to provide clear timelines on phasing out fossil fuels, a survey has found.

Physicists believe a new experiment could prove their existence and answer fundamental questions about our Universe.

Two long duration battery technologies will be tested on remote microgrids in trial of how alternatives to lithium can be used to integrate solar in off-grid communities.

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The vast majority of investors do not see nuclear power as a good investment, with less than one in 10 exploring this technology, new survey finds.

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Internal lobbying has added safeguards to a power for the resources minister to water down consultation requirements

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The Albanese government has kept a lid on dissent over changes to the approval process for offshore gas projects, but a late internal push has seen the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, regain a power to prevent consultation rules being watered down.

While the resources minister, Madeleine King, had labelled claims she was taking over environmental approvals a “conspiracy theory”, widespread opposition from the Greens, the crossbench, First Nations activists and environmental groups spurred an informal Labor pro-climate group into action.

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African Verreaux’s eagle owl to make final flyover during Easter holidays before move to Yorkshire Dales

Any night owl who has spent 30 years of working all day would be dreaming of retirement.

Such is the case for Ernie, an owl with a “big personality”, who will be quitting after delighting guests at Warwick Castle for three decades.

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Keir Starmer will need to make it affordable to be an artist, because the value of art is beyond financial metrics

Nineteen years ago now, I was asked to perform my standup high in the Colorado Rockies at the Aspen comedy festival, a trade fair for the American comedy industry patronised by wealthy locals. In super-affluent Aspen, I discovered, to my horror, economically uncompetitive service industry workers were homed in special “employee housing projects”, like castrated catering cyborgs from a Russian science fiction novel, sleeping in pods, dreaming of electric sheep. But today that system seems benign compared with the housing poverty of Sunak island.

In Aspen, the famous comedians were domiciled in luxury hotels. I was in a cheap motel on the edge of town, where I breakfasted daily with a quartet of equally undervalued underground comic book writers, regarded as witless savants nonetheless capable of providing content by the predatory industry vampires. Daniel Clowes told me the contents of his Oscar ceremony goody bag – the film of his Ghost World comic was nominated – were worth more than everything he had earned as a writer to that point.

Stewart Lee’s Basic Lee is at Cambridge Arts theatre 15-16 April

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Some farmers are getting almost double the value of back paddocks in land deals struck with renewable energy and storage developers.

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Most Australians prepared to pay for homes with solar and battery storage, but not so sure about EV chargers and full electrification.

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Colombia-based environmental crediting standard Cercarbono on Friday published the final version of its biodiversity protocol that will underpin crediting of 18 eligible activities across a number of ecosystems, though with a number of significant changes since its initial draft.

Renting in the countryside is outpacing London and other cities as house prices rise, a study finds.

Deploying direct air capture technology in Germany and capturing a modest amount of CO2 emissions from the atmosphere would consume a significant amount power, land, and water resources, according to a new study.

Traders added to their overall net holdings across carbon markets in North America amid a recovery in allowance prices from last week's rout, according to data published Friday by the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

The International Energy Agency (IEA)’s emphasis on the energy transition fails its responsibility to provide objective data, said two US Republican lawmakers, who questioned its recent work in a letter addressed to the intergovernmental agency.

Tour boat divers have long borne witness to mass bleaching events. Once reluctant to wade into discussions about global heating, they are now opening up

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“You can see it on their faces,” says scuba diving instructor Elliot Peters. “There’s definitely some remorse and sadness.”

Peters works at a resort on Heron Island in the southern part of the Great Barrier Reef and, in recent weeks, he’s had to tell curious guests why so many of the corals around the island are turning bone white.

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Two titans of the voluntary carbon market are retiring this year, Carbon Pulse has learned.

The global LNG market is at risk of major transformation and possible bifurcation if the EU extends its carbon pricing policies to include imports of the fuel, according to a major global consultancy.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) new climate disclosure rules were reinstated by judges at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday.

Time is now up for the political majority that made the European Green Deal possible, with the bloc's 27 environmental ministers showing more and more signs of disagreement ahead of their summit next week.

Elizabeth Mrema, co-chair of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), is stepping down from her role amid a swathe of other leadership changes at the organisation.