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Skyfly's aircraft promises the flexibility of a helicopter without the cost, noise or emissions.

Campaigners identified 140 illegal spill days into the beauty spot in 2024

Peter Dutton says co-hosting the 2026 UN climate summit is ‘madness’. But Australia would be mad to miss out on the benefits, including investment in renewables. Wesley Morgan, Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The electrification of Australian homes and vehicles is no longer trade-off between climate action and cost, but a guaranteed way to drive down the cost of living.

The post No more fossil “gasplaining” – going electric is past the tipping point and guaranteed to slash cost of living appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Adelaide records driest period in decades and Perth swelters through temperatures above 35C as BoM forecasts record rainfall in Queensland

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From intense rain and floods to heatwaves and drought, Australians across the country faced weather extremes as politicians headed into their first full week of campaigning.

Queensland cities and towns were still dealing with the effects of flooding on Monday, including extensive stock losses and widespread damage, after a year’s worth of rain fell in a matter of days.

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As the regulator approves more energy price rises, consumers were blithely advised to "shop around." There is a better to do this, but it requires rethinking the grid.

The post Gridlock: It’s time rethink the grid, make it local, and fit for consumers appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Testing had previously revealed the mine was emitting more than 11 times the legal limit of dust containing heavy metals

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The operators of Cadia goldmine have been ordered to pay $350,000 in fines and convicted of three offences after a prosecution by the New South Wales Environmental Protection Authority.

Cadia Holdings Limited, trading as Cadia Valley Operations, pleaded guilty to three offences under the environmental protection act relating to breaches of clean air regulations at the mine in central west NSW.

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Gothenburg has to pay a financial penalty if it misses certain annual sustainability goals.

Gothenburg has to pay a financial penalty if it misses certain annual sustainability goals.

Plans to develop an offshore wind farm 40km off the WA coast have gained fresh momentum, with two new partners added to the project.

The post Offshore wind bidder signs up new partners for 2GW project in Bunbury zone appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A tech giant has agreed a long-term contract to buy 676,000 nature-based removal credits from an improved forestry management (IFM) project in the US, enabling the developer to buy the forest upfront.

One of Australia's oldest wind farms turns 20 today, with some of the original staff still working there and looking at another 10 years of operation.

The post One of Australia’s oldest wind farms turns 20 today, and will live on for another decade appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Carbon pricing mechanisms could make it financially viable to harvest invasive alien trees in South Africa for use in bioenergy and biochar production, according to a study.

Labour’s measures to ban deep-peat burning aim to safeguard habitats, tackle carbon emissions, and protect wildlife, so why are hunters up in arms?

Burning vegetation on deep peat will be banned under government plans to protect nature and reduce carbon emissions.

Vegetation on peatland is often burned to create habitat for grouse, which like to feed on the fresh shoots of new plants that grow after the burn. This increases the number of birds available to be shot for sport.

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Dutton has adopted a gas reservation policy and sweetened it with deregulation of gas extraction - but the gas industry isn't happy. Here's a guess at why.

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Civil society and industry groups sealed a pact on Monday to minimise local opposition to new wind, solar, and electricity grid projects, in the hope of accelerating the deployment of renewables across Europe. 

Brisbane 2032 was supposed to be the first ‘climate-positive’ Olympic Games. But a quiet change to the host contract puts the commitment in doubt. Marcus Foth, Professor of Urban Informatics, Queensland University of Technology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The thylacine might walk again. Or Lake Pedder might rise again. The possibility of ecological restoration in the island state plays into the appeal of going back in time

There is something about Tasmania that makes it a place where people want to restore the past, and not just because Tasmanians still regularly report seeing thylacines bounding off into the forest.

Certainly, it’s a retro kind of place. The landed gentry are still a thing, the powerful families of modern Tasmania tracing their ancestry back to the original squatters, who either took the land by force or bought it from the colonial government, no questions asked. Georgian mansions scatter the rural landscape; in Hobart, convict hewn stone is a building material of choice. Nearly 70% of Tasmanians had both parents born in Australia (the overall figure for the country is 47%), and more than 80% identify with a white ancestry (65% for Australia as a whole). If you ignore the giant cruise ships, the Teslas and the puffer jackets, you could imagine yourself in mid-century Australia.

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If a tree-planting scheme in western England can match the first national forest, people as well as wildlife will benefit

The benefits for bats were presumably not at the top of the government’s list of reasons for announcing the creation of the new western forest. The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, regards rules that protect these nocturnal mammals as a nuisance. Nevertheless, the rare Bechstein’s bat, as well as the pine marten and various fungi, are expected to be among species that benefit from the multiyear project, to which central government has so far committed £7.5m.

Like England’s only existing national forest, in the Midlands, this one will be broken up across a wide area, featuring grassland, farmland, towns and villages as well as densely planted, closed-canopy woodland. John Everitt, who heads the National Forest organisation (which is both a charity and a government arm’s length body), describes this type of landscape as “forest in the medieval sense with a mosaic of habitats”.

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Cyclone Alfred drives wild seas, a seagull eclipses the moon, and our Kylie performs on a trapeze: Guardian Australia looks at some of the month’s best images

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