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The analysis could provide information on the animals genetics and the diseases that affect them.

America's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has published a new graph of record-efficiency solar modules. And guess who tops the chart?

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The project is billed as “a key milestone in New Zealand’s renewable energy development” as it looks to achieve 100% renewable energy generation by 2035.

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First all-electric vehicle assembled entirely in Australia to be launched next week in Sydney, bringing Australia a step closer to a home-grown EV industry

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The project will bring Deakin’s best and brightest students and academics together with ACCIONA’s personnel and resources to design and build a solar vehicle capable of competing at the highest levels.

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Making sure Victoria’s network can cope with residential demand for batteries and solar is a complicated business – but we’re not sitting on our hands.

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Valery Bykovsky, who holds the record for the longest solo spaceflight in history, dies aged 84.

European carbon prices posted a fourth straight day of gains Thursday, ending above €22 for the first time in a fortnight on what traders said looked like short-covering combined with technical buying.

Most Australians would be familiar with the mass spawning of corals that occurs in spring every year on the Great Barrier Reef. But along the tropical West Australian coastline, the mass spawning occurs in the autumn. In fact, it began just last night.

California Carbon Allowances (CCA) pushed through market expectations for the 2020 floor price this week, while RGGI allowances (RGGI) languished on the secondary market after their most recent post-auction rise.

Study debunks idea that parents find children’s concern about climate change irritating

In 2007, an article in the Wall Street Journal appeared with the headline “Inconvenient youth”. A pun on Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, it described parents being badgered by their children to drive less or install low energy lighting to help climate change. It even included tips and strategies for fed-up parents to deflect these suggestions. A new study challenges this narrative.

In 2015, a poster competition for Utah schools was launched to encourage teens to consider the air pollution implications of their driving privilege and to learn strategies to preserve air quality. Although the competition was directed at the teenagers, it soon became clear that they were talking to their parents and encouraging them to change behaviour too.

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Forest protection deals inked between African nations and a World Bank fund could reignite international emissions trade under the Paris Agreement and ICAO’s CORSIA offsetting scheme for aviation.

Chytrid fungus has caused declines in 501 amphibian species, according to a new analysis. Most of the damage happened in the 1980s, before the fungus itself was even discovered. Benjamin Scheele, Research Fellow in Ecology, Australian National University Claire Foster, Research Fellow in Ecology and Conservation, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

We have quantified the effects of twelve power station closures in five states. Local unemployment shoots up and comes down only slowly. Paul Burke, Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Frank Jotzo, Director, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Rohan Best, Lecturer in Economics, Macquarie University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Study reveals extent of chytrid fungus and how devastating it has been for frog, toad and salamander species worldwide

A deadly disease that wiped out global populations of amphibians led to the decline of 500 species in the past 50 years, including 90 extinctions, scientists say.

A global research effort, led by the Australian National University, has for the first time quantified the worldwide impact of chytridiomycosis, or chytrid fungus, a fungal disease that eats away at the skin of amphibians.

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The UK government has awarded £19.5 million in compensation to 60 companies for their 2018 costs relating to the EU ETS and the UK’s carbon price support, in an effort to shield them from carbon leakage risks.

Two US Democratic legislators reintroduced a bill Thursday to implement a national carbon trading programme that they said could gel with progressives’ Green New Deal (GND) resolution to decarbonise the US economy.

The World Meteorological Organization says that the physical and financial impacts of global warming are speeding up.

Pollution from energy sector continues to drop, while low-carbon generation rose to 53%

The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell 3% in 2018 as pollution from the energy sector continued to decrease, provisional government figures show.

Emissions of the gases that drive climate change have fallen for six years in a row, and are 44% below the 1990 baseline for the UK. Emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, are at the lowest level since before the start of the 20th century, when Queen Victoria was still on the throne, government officials said.

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The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 2.5% in 2018, according to provisional government data released Thursday, a decline driven by the ongoing energy sector shift from coal to cleaner gas and renewables but muted by colder temperatures.