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New modelling demonstrates how ClearVue's integrated solar glass technology can boost a building’s energy and thermal efficiency to world-leading levels.

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Extreme heat over 50℃ is likely to become more common, giving us yet another reason for Australia to act fast on climate change. Andrew King, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Germany’s new climate minister says the nation has eight years to achieve the same growth in renewables achieved in the past 30 years.

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EDF has downgraded its estimate for nuclear output for 2022, the French utility announced late Thursday, as a result of extensions of the outage periods for five of its reactors due to defects.

Australian homes and businesses installed a record amount of rooftop solar in 2021, just edging past 3GW of new capacity added, despite another round of Covid chaos.

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Chemist Cynthia Chapple talks about how to get more black girls from inner-cities into STEM careers.

The UK's wood-burning Drax power plant hopes to expand but faces questions on its green credentials.

EU nations will need to ramp up their efforts in order to achieve the long-term ETS emissions reductions targets set out under the bloc’s new climate package, a European agency warned Thursday.

Slovenia has announced that it will pursue a coal phaseout by 2033 at the latest, as the Balkan nation becomes the 23rd European country to announce an exit strategy.

California’s WCI-linked cap-and-trade programme requires reform to align with the state’s 2030 emissions reduction goal, but the extent of these changes depends on the programme’s intended role in the Golden State’s overall climate policy package that remains unclear, according to an oversight committee draft report.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices unravelled this week amid bearish views about the February WCI auction and wider macroeconomic conditions, before the return of compliance buyers helped regain support, while RGGI Allowances (RGAs) came off slightly as liquidity dried up.

Carbon credit provider Vertree has partnered with major oil tanker pooling service Tankers International to offer to compensate the climate impact of voyages with nature-based units.

New scientific research shows ocean heat is at record highs. So what does this tell us about global warming?

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The volume of carbon offsets traded on Xpansiv’s CBL platform nearly tripled in 2021 to outpace the voluntary market’s rapid fundamental growth amid a surge in interest in standardised trade, the company said on Thursday.

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In this era of mega-fires, diverse strategies are urgently needed so we can safely live with fire. Rachael Helene Nolan, Senior research fellow, Western Sydney University Grant Williamson, Research Fellow in Environmental Science, University of Tasmania Katharine Haynes, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires, University of Wollongong Mark Ooi, Senior Research Fellow, UNSW Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Workers at nearly 80 grocery stores accuse corporation of making big profits during pandemic while not paying employees enough

Over 8,000 workers at nearly 80 Kroger-owned King Soopers grocery stores around Colorado started a three week strike on Wednesday as new union contract negotiations stalled.

The dispute is the latest in which workers have accused a corporation of making big profits during the pandemic while not paying high enough wages.

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Heating and habitat loss drive birds and mammals to cooler areas where plants can not follow, study shows

The decline of seed-dispersing animals is damaging plants’ ability to adapt to climate breakdown, a study has found.

Almost half of all plant species depend on animals to spread their seeds, but scientists fear these plants may be at risk of extinction when animals are driven to migrate to cooler areas, as plants cannot easily follow.

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