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Offshore wind turbines grow bigger and more powerful by the year, but the Hunter zone's height rule will limit developers to current-day technology.

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Tesla is poised to launch a new electricity supply venture in the UK, based around its Powerwall batteries, in its push for 100 pct renewables and global domination.

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A Florida hunter has wrestled and caught a 19ft Burmese python, the longest-ever documented in the state.

South Korea this week signed a number of bilateral deals with Laos on the development of large-scale solar and landfill projects, as Seoul is seeking to leverage the Article 6 mechanism of the Paris Agreement.

The New Zealand government has agreed to reconsider the current price settings and controls of its ETS, after it admitted in the High Court that it made a mistake leaving them largely unchanged at the end of last year.

Growing ship numbers and reductions in the industry’s total emissions add up to big emission cuts per ship – as much as 60% by 2030 and 91% by 2040. The days of fossil-fuelled ships are now numbered. Christiaan De Beukelaer, Senior Lecturer in Culture & Climate, The University of Melbourne Tristan Smith, Reader in Energy and Transport, UCL Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Owners of Vales Point coal fired power generator push out closure date by four years after "reassessing" technical life of the plant.

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As annual three-week survey kicks off, there are signs weather has taken toll on populations of common species

Last summer’s drought may have reduced butterfly populations this year because grasses and flowers that would usually feed caterpillars withered and died in the heatwave, scientists say.

People are being urged to help researchers understand the impact of extreme weather on British butterflies by counting the number and species they see this summer as part of the world’s largest insect survey.

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Powerful new magnets have revived efforts to build a quiet propulsion system for ships and submarines.

Strategic deployment of direct air capture and storage (DACS) technology can help bring costs down from current levels, though they are unlikely to drop below $100/tonne of CO2 without strong policy support like integrating removals into carbon markets, according to a journal article published Thursday.

A flurry of activity after the close of the secondary market on Wednesday and into Thursday trade, in light of the ARB announcing the next cap-and-trade public workshop date, lifted California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices to year-to-date highs, while Washington Carbon Allowances (WCAs) rose slightly in light transaction activity through the week.

Locals struggle to believe the plant's treated radioactive water is safe to pump into the Pacific Ocean.

If Chandrayaan-3 succeeds, India will be the first to land near the Moon's little-explored south pole.

Any application will need to go to the secretary of state before a solar farm can be installed.

A Virginia regulatory agency granted the reinstatement of utility Dominion Energy’s request to recoup the costs of tens of millions of RGGI allowances on Wednesday via an extra charge on customers’ bills before the state's planned exit from the power sector carbon market this year.

California regulator ARB during the forthcoming cap-and-trade rulemaking should implement an Emissions Containment Reserve (ECR) to help address allowance oversupply in a predictable manner, a collection of environmental organisations, business groups, and utilities said in public comments.

Carbon credit certifier Verra released a new methodology on Thursday to quantify emissions reductions from activities that avoid food loss and waste (FLW) by keeping food in the human supply chain.

Oil major ExxonMobil announced on Thursday it has purchased a US-headquartered carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) solutions company with a vast network of CO2 pipelines across the South.

A Washington lawmaker on Thursday said New York should not emulate the Evergreen State’s 10% allowance purchase limit for compliance entities at cap-and-trade auctions, noting he hopes to revisit the rule in the next legislative session.

Two oil majors will pay a combined €12.6 billion for the right to build wind farms in the North and Baltic seas in world’s largest ever offshore wind auction.

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