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A new alliance formed this week has become the latest to target sustainable agriculture in an effort to save water and reduce methane emissions from rice cultivation in India.

As the world heats up, we need to confront what our urge to travel is really rooted in – and rethink it

While Rhodes burned, tourists kept flocking in. Homes were being turned to ash, thousands of holidaymakers were being evacuated, and still the visitors came. In the wake of the Hawaii wildfires, which have killed hundreds and counting, the island of Maui experienced the same phenomenon.

These images played on my mind as I set off on my own holiday abroad a week later. They niggled at me as I fumbled my way through Turkish thank-yous and waited dutifully in line to see Istanbul’s Blue Mosque. Why did they do it? There were partial explanations available: a lack of funds to book alternate trips, the lingering question of whether refunds would be issued, the quest to escape the grim British summer. But none of these felt enough to explain why people would walk towards the flames – why they’d put their lives and welfare at risk for a holiday.

Moya Lothian-McLean is a contributing editor at Novara Media

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The world is far from meeting an International Panel on Climate Change target to limit global warming to 2C above pre-industrial times and will continue to use fossil fuels at a much higher rate without more investment, new technologies, and better policy settings, according to oil major ExxonMobil.

Pragyaan has had an eventful week - dodging craters, taking the Moon's temperature and checking for sulphur.

Forestry wives, farmers’ wives, coalminers’ wives: they were the backbone of communities. But men always write the narratives

My mum is a forester’s wife. Growing up, I remember her collecting logs every autumn and stacking them in the log shed, picking out the Sitka spruce needles from inside the drum of the washing machine.

When my brother and I were born in the 80s, prospects for working-class women in rural areas were few and far between. Especially for mothers. We grew up on a country estate in Yorkshire in a tied house, which meant it came with my dad’s job. Each morning Dad set off for the woods with his lunchbox and Mum stayed at home to look after us.

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New Zealand’s forestry regulations needs to be balanced to gain rural community support while at the same time allowing the sector to expand to the scale required to meet the country’s climate goals, an expert told a conference Wednesday.

State-owned Stanwell Corp signs MoU with RWE in a deal to support the roll-out of up to 10GW of projects, starting with two huge wind farms.

The post Queensland partners with global energy giant to develop two new huge wind projects appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Drop in first half of year driven by fall in demand and some growth in clean power, study says

The European Union is stoking its power plants with fewer lumps of coal and barrels of oil and gas than it has ever recorded, data shows.

The 27 member states burned 17% less fossil fuel to make electricity between January and June 2023 than over the same period the year before, a study from the clean energy thinktank Ember found. The EU made 410TWh of electricity from sources that release planet-heating gases, which analysts say is the lowest level since 2015 – the first year for which they have monthly data – and “very likely” since 2000.

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Experts call for an independent review of Snowy 2.0 as costs of the controversial project are reported to have doubled again to $12 billion, not including transmission.

The post “Australia’s biggest engineering debacle:” Snowy 2.0 costs double again to reported $12bn appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Kākāpō are prone to disease and infertility. Only intensive species management has saved the flightless parrots from extinction. Genome data now reveals the genetic reasons behind these problems. Joseph Guhlin, Postdoctoral Researcher with Genomics Aotearoa, University of Otago Peter Dearden, Professor and Director of Genomics Aotearoa, University of Otago Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Electrification and energy upgrades for social housing and rooftop solar for apartment dwellers get a new chunk of joint federal and state funding.

The post Solar for apartments and electrification for social housing get twin funding boost appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia has just released 10 new areas for large-scale CO2 storage off its coast, nominated by its oil and gas industry which has pulled back on traditional offshore work in recent years.

Victoria and South Australia to share 2,400MWh of new storage capacity under new tender to fill gaps created by closure of coal and gas generators.

The post Victoria and South Australia seek 2,400MWh of storage in fast-tracked capacity tender appeared first on RenewEconomy.

New Zealand Climate Change and Environment Minister James Shaw on Wednesday defended the government's consultation process and refused to rule out policy options as he addressed foresters' concerns about the options raised in the ETS review.

Australia's energy and climate policies, both federal and state, are well intentioned but require a heavy state hand and are, slow, bureaucratic, end up picking winners.

The post Australia’s emissions and grid policies remain a mess, and time is nearly up appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Bowen announces consultation on two new offshore wind zones in Australia, one in the Bass Strait and one near Bunbury in W.A.

The post Bowen to open consultations on two new offshore zones in Bass Strait, Bunbury appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The New Zealand government will publish a paper relating to its approach to Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes (ITMOs) in the coming days, the minister for climate change and environment told a conference Wednesday.

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A publicly-traded European carbon credit firm faces delisting from Amsterdam’s Euronext stock market.

One of the largest players in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) has undergone a major restructuring to reduce staff amid the challenging economic environment of high interest rates and stalling demand.