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A University of Queensland process for extracting and transforming metals needed for EV batteries could cut their carbon footprint – and manufacturing costs.

DP Energy wins approval for Stage 2 of 1.1GW hybrid renewables park, which will offer most services of traditional fossil fuel power stations.

A new report reveals Australia is lagging behind most wealthy nations in working towards the globally agreed goals. It's performing particularly badly on climate and environmental indicators. John Thwaites, Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute & ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University Tahl Kestin, Sustainable Development Solutions Network Manager, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Tesla signs MOU to build EV plant in Shanghai, which will be producing 500,000 cars a year within five years' time.

Portland, Dorset: The gentle greens and yellows of our last visit are now bleached and tarnished, tall grasses faded to blond, wood spurge dried to rust

A stone archway, framing sea and sky. The threshold to another world, a world unsuspected by visitors hurrying over the windswept plateau to the Bill, Portland’s beak-like southern tip.

Under the eye of Rufus Castle, we wander down between spindly ivy-sashed trees and warm, lichened walls bright with valerian, to the cove where shuttered beach huts curve round a bank of big, pale stones. The sense of otherness increases. Earlier this year, we were met by the sight of three pebble minarets silhouetted against the waves. If we hadn’t taken photos, we’d have thought we had dreamed them.

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The biggest threat to Australia's legacy coal fired generators is not the explosion of wind and solar farms, or even the settings of the country's emissions policy: Right now, it's the continued boom in rooftop solar.

The Andrews Labor Government will provide $500,000 to help transition one of Victoria’s strongest renewableenergy regions towards a thriving low-carbon economy.

ACCC calls for federal solar subsidy to be scrapped by 2021, in report that documents how consumers have been screwed by networks, generators and retailers. Its response: Kill rooftop solar, and get government to underwrite new projects that could include gas and coal.

Australia's oceans are warming faster than the global average, and fish are moving south as a result. Alistair Hobday, Senior Principal Research Scientist - Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO Beth Fulton, CSIRO Research Group Leader Ecosystem Modelling and Risk Assessment, CSIRO Gretta Pecl, Professor, ARC Future Fellow & Editor in Chief (Reviews in Fish Biology & Fisheries), University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Travelling in time might sound like fantasy, but some physicists think it might really be possible.

Rivers overall are getting cleaner, but water firms still need to do better, the Environment Agency says.

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Victoria Gill joins scientists trying to find out how wildfires affect the air we breathe.

An omnibus clean energy bill introduced by a Washington DC councilmember on Tuesday calls for the US capital to achieve a 100% Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) by 2032, but fails to include a carbon tax pushed for by campaigners this year.

The UNFCCC’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has enjoyed great success in deploying more than $300 billion of investment into clean technology in developing countries around the world. But recent decisions by the UNFCCC risk alienating may of the companies whose activities support this mechanism and discriminate against smaller enterprises.

Ontario lawmakers have been recalled for a summer session to introduce "urgent legislation" to repeal the law that underpins the province's now-cancelled cap-and-trade scheme, the new Progressive Conservative government announced Tuesday.

It’s mid-summer yet the cuckoo’s adieu and spotted redshank’s dark plumage hint at autumn

It may be the hottest, driest, summer since 1976 but on the first day of July I said goodbye to spring and greeted the coming of autumn, within a few short hours.

The farewell to spring came in the form of a calling cuckoo at the RSPB’s flagship Ham Wall reserve in Somerset.

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An audit of Sydney's drinking water has found worryingly high salinity. If the biggest water catchment in the country has problems, what about regional and rural Australia? Ian Wright, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

EU carbon prices extended its one-month high on Tuesday as a heatwave-induced rally in European power prices continued to lend support.

Number of extinct species on EPBC fauna list will rise by almost 20% if species added to list

Ten species could soon be added to Australia’s list of extinct fauna, including a Queensland frog that was last seen in 1990.

The federal government’s scientific advisory body is assessing whether to add nine mammals and the mountain mistfrog to its list of native animal species considered extinct under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.

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