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Decmil Group Limited is pleased to announce that it has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract worth up to $23 million, to deliver the civil balance of plant works for the Crookwell 3 Wind Farm Project.

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Plans have been unveiled for three big battery storage projects in NSW, including two in New England and another in the state's north.

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AEMO flags yet more delays to introduction of 5-minute settlement, a major market reform that will favour battery storage.

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Scuba-diver Ross McLaren has taken thousands of photos of marine life in Scotland's rivers and sea-lochs.

Commercial formulas, which contain multiple chemicals, should require their own licences, researchers say.

What will happen to Alaska's whales when tourism returns to waters stilled by Covid?

Leading expert says outlawing use of chemicals in private and public areas could slow insect decline and protect human health

A leading insect expert has called for a UK-wide ban on the use of pesticides in gardens and urban areas to protect bees, wildlife and human health.

Dave Goulson, a professor of biology at the University of Sussex, said outlawing chemical spraying in the country’s 22m private gardens, along with road verges, parks and other green spaces, could slow insect decline by creating a network of nature-friendly habitats where insects can recover.

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Consortium of big tech companies that approve emojis for digital communications will not allow wind turbines.

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For biodiversity offsets to work, landholders need to be on board, but their diverse perspectives remain poorly understood. Roel Plant, Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney Laure-Elise Ruoso, Senior Research Consultant, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Anyone flouting the rules could be fined due to the damage some lotions can cause to coral.

The top holder of California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits reduced its share of the bank once again during the six-month period ending in Q1 2021, continuing a persistent trend over the past several years, recent data showed. 

An increasing number of Eastern EU nations are accelerating their plans to shut down coal-fired power plants, amid rising costs of burning the fuel and financial support to recover from the coronavirus crisis.

Organization: European Climate Foundation Position: Senior Associate, Clean Energy Duty Station: Flexible Deadline for Application: 16 August 2021

The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) is slated to make a decision as early as this week on whether Dominion Energy can recover $167.8 million from ratepayers for RGGI-related compliance costs, an agency spokesperson told Carbon Pulse.

Researchers say relying on technologies alone will not be enough to avoid a climate emergency, and question the viability indefinite economic growth.

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Quebec’s environment ministry released a draft forestry protocol for private lands on Wednesday that allows for aggregation of several sites, enables early action projects to earn compliance-grade credits, and omits California’s 100-year permanence requirement.

Exciting opportunity to play a meaningful role in the development, establishment and implementation of the new UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS).

Numbers of people exposed to flooding globally have risen by almost a quarter in two decades.

Populations in flood-prone regions is increasing, with 57 countries especially susceptible

From Germany to New York City, this summer has demonstrated the destructive force of floods. Now, a new study shows that many more people will live in flood-prone areas in the coming decade and reveals the population in areas likely to flood is increasing at a greater rate than other places.

The study, which was published in the journal Nature today, used daily satellite observations of floods during 913 large flood events between 2000 and 2018.

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