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Redirecting half of EU member states’ money that currently goes to subsiding fossil fuel heating to heat pumps could fully decarbonise heating in the EU by 2040, an NGO concluded in a report published on Monday. 

Coal power outages, extreme weather, and abundant solar are combining to make Australia’s electricity market the most volatile in the world, new research finds.

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Renewables accounted for more than 50 per cent of generation over a 24 hour period on Australia's main grid for the first time this past weekend.

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Understanding how animals think, learn and interact with one another can inform the science of ecology, as predator and prey shape their world. Eamonn Wooster, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University Erick Lundgren, Postdoctoral fellow, Aarhus University, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The deal comes as Rio Tinto deals with the fallout from damage caused to another heritage site.

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Net zero, nature protection and “rollout rage” feel like a toxic mix. Yet we have to find a quick way to deliver renewables projects we urgently need.

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State energy minister Tom Koutsantonis discusses green hydrogen plan, filling the "gap" on renewables, transmission, storage and prices.

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If Australia is to meet its net zero targets it must move fast and build massive industrial infrastructure. But those projects are provoking fierce hostility. Is there a way through the green dilemma? Peter Burnett, Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Newly announced closures of Glencore’s copper and zinc mines in Mt Isa will add to a huge number of former mines in Australia. A 2020 study by Monash University’s Resources Trinity Group found more than… Mohan Yellishetty, Co-Founder, Critical Minerals Consortium, and Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University Peter Marcus Bach, Senior Research Scientist, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, and Adjunct Research Fellow, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

At one point in September nearly 100% of eastern Australia’s demand could have been met by renewables, says energy operator Aemo

For a half hour in the middle of a Saturday last month, enough renewable energy was available to meet all but 1.4% of eastern Australia’s entire electricity demand – the closest to reaching 100% clean power in the grid’s history.

Renewables also supplied 38.9% of average demand across the national electricity market (Nem) in the September quarter, the most for any third quarter, according to a report by the Australian energy market operator (Aemo).

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South Australia reaches another landmark in the transition to renewables, setting a new record for "potential" wind and solar - a stunning 264 pct of state electricity demand.

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The growth in renewables over the past year has had a major impact on Australia’s main electricity grid, with wholesale prices tumbling from their 2022 peaks, and grid demand and coal output sent to record lows, according to the latest update from the Australian Energy Market Operator. The latest Quarterly Energy Dynamics report published by […]

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Margaret Ann Splawn, a London-based carbon markets veteran, remains unconscious in hospital after a cycling accident two months ago.

Joanna Lumley’s call to free UK elephants has exposed flaws in conservation claims

Every afternoon at London Zoo until the early 1970s a table laid with cups, saucers and a teapot would be set out for the chimpanzees. An amusing set piece was anticipated: chimps throwing crockery at each other and jumping on chairs. But there was an early complication.

Chimpanzees are exceptionally good at mastering tools. They quickly learned to use the pot correctly and would sit politely at the table, taking afternoon tea.

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South Australia announces winners of landmark green hydrogen tender that will play key role in state's advance to 100 pct renewables and plans to "ship sun beyond our shores."

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The UK has some of the world's most powerful tides - and is well placed to exploit their power.

As if things weren’t bad enough, Storm Babet sounds like it’s out of a dark Scandinavian play. It’s enough to have us weeping into our starched aprons

So, this is how the world ends – not with a bang but with the cold clicking of claws belonging to the 10-inch-wide mitten crabs that are terrorising the freshwater population of England. These rapidly proliferating creatures have cute fuzz-sheathed pincers that look like Victorian ladies’ winter muffs, but they can pin down a prawn and rip off its shell with nary a tremor. Before the mitten crabs, the scare was about bedbugs. Before that it was evil AI and killer robots. This is all in the past three weeks.

It’s as if the sheer misery, violence and horror of the headlines have infected us with such despair that we’re fixating on anything, big or small, that can do us harm, because it’s all feeling just a little bit like the Third World War, isn’t it?

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The Philippines Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has formalised a biodiversity and climate change agreement with a major renewable energy firm in a bid to drive larger private-sector investments into nature-based solutions.

Government and gas-focused industry body resist conclusion that heat pumps are ‘only viable’ option for heating UK homes

The government and sections of UK industry will continue to back the prospect of using hydrogen for home heating, despite a clear verdict against the technology from the UK’s infrastructure watchdog.

The National Infrastructure Commission advised this week, after an exhaustive investigation of the technology, that hydrogen was not suitable for heating homes. The report was unambiguous: “The Commission’s analysis demonstrates that there is no public policy case for hydrogen to be used to heat individual buildings. It should be ruled out as an option to enable an exclusive focus on switching to electrified heat.”

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The government announces new recycling rules but critics say the system is "fundamentally broken".