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Global renewables giant marks milestone 3.3GW of wind, solar and battery storage installed in Australia – hopes to make it 10GW by 2030.

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The cost of building a government-backed new gas plant in NSW has jumped to almost $1bn, with no word on whether green hydrogen will be in the mix when it comes online.

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The rare spectacle, not expected again until 2037, lit up the skies - here are the best views from around the world.

ARENA tips more money into RayGen's groundbreaking solar and storage technology as it eyes its first large scale projects.

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A photo of a stargazer fish is one of several highly commended in Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

Federal government confirms huge blowout in costs of Snowy 2.0, with $4.3bn already spent, as Snowy Hydro sets a new path forward for the beleaguered project.

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One beekeeper who came to the rescue described a cloud of "angry, confused and homeless" bees.

More than 440,000 people are still without power as Idalia, now a tropical storm, moves into Georgia.

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New or improved flood protection can give a false sense of security – the so-called ‘levee effect’. But climate change is unpredictable, meaning ‘residual risk’ always exists and must be planned for. Xinyu Fu, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Planning, University of Waikato Iain White, Professor of Environmental Planning, University of Waikato Rob Bell, Teaching Fellow, Environmental Planning Programme, University of Waikato Silvia Serrao-Neumann, Associate Professor of Environmental Planning, University of Waikato Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A vote on legislation which includes Brazilian President Luiz Inacio da Silva's draft emissions trading system proposal that was scheduled to take place in the Senate Environmental Committee on Wednesday has been postponed.

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US states can now draw on $350 million in grants from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to monitor and reduce methane emissions from their oil and gas operations.

The charity says its frustration at environment plans "led us to attack the people not the policy".

A coalition led by a California-based research centre and an incubator for engineered carbon removal have both received Department of Energy funding to advance direct air capture in the US. 

In an attempt to allay market confusion from contrasting conclusions reached by REDD+ stakeholders and academics last week, an offset ratings firm released an analysis on Wednesday explaining key shortcomings of one of the studies.

AEMO says country's ageing coal plants are getting less reliable, with the rate of unplanned outage rates likely to remain high as they battle with extreme weather.

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The unusual lunar phenomenon can be observed around the world on Wednesday and Thursday.

Forest fires are getting worse, burning almost twice the tree cover in the last 20 years compared to the previous two decades, according to new analysis.

Rising seas are pushing coastal ecosystems to the limit of endurance. Now international research reveals a “tipping point” will be reached if we allow more than 2 degrees of global warming. Neil Saintilan, Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.