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The Russian mission is racing against India to be the first country to land on the Moon's south pole.

We talk to Peter Leeson about the rise and rise of his Australian made Volt solar tile, which is being installed on rooftops in every state in Australia – and setting records overseas.

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Hundreds of key environmental science terms added to the British Sign Language dictionary.

How do you sign 'carbon footprint' in BSL?

Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions fell nine per cent in the first half of the year as a weakening economy deflated energy use.

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Rio Tinto to install 55MW solar farm just south of the Arctic Circle to help power the huge Diavik diamond mine which is to close in a few years.

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Chevron has announced investments in two carbon sequestration research projects in Western Australia, it announced Friday.

Mining giants agree to end feudal approach to Pilbara energy systems and work with each other and energy companies to create one of world's biggest renewable hubs.

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Now that plans for a national radioactive waste management facility near Kimba in South Australia have been abandoned, what next? Let’s learn from our mistakes. Ian Lowe, Emeritus Professor, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The global spaghetti bowl of undersea fibre optic cables shows what can be achieved with intergovernmental cooperation. The HVDC sector needs a similar approach – and fast.

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California Carbon Allowances (CCAs) veered higher through another week of volatility as traders attempted to square the market's recent ARB cap-and-trade workshop-inspired rally with the Aug. 16 quarterly auction, while Washington Carbon Allowances (WCAs) remained unchanged even as traders expected reserve sale volumes to sell out at this week's offering.

New York’s continued participation in the power sector RGGI carbon market would aid the development of the state’s economy-wide cap-and-invest system by ensuring programme stability and fostering greater regional climate ambition, though separating from RGGI could yield a larger in-state emissions cap and avoid multiple carbon prices, an expert said Thursday.

Canada’s environment ministry on Thursday announced its initial Clean Electricity Regulations (CER) to mobilise the country’s electricity grid to achieve net zero by 2035, including a series of measures that provide exemptions for units with carbon capture and storage (CCS) and can allow for continued, but limited, use of fossil fuels.

We used to focus just on protection of vital ecosystems like the reef. But as climate change and other threats accelerate, we need to actively help nature get ready for the heat. Paul Hardisty, CEO, Australian Institute of Marine Science Line K Bay, Research Program Director, Australian Institute of Marine Science Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The UK government signalled Thursday it will continue to support biomass energy production albeit under stricter sustainability tests, but did not spell out how it would subsidise utility Drax’s BECCS plans.

A standardised way of grading carbon credits can establish transparency and consistency in the market while improving upon the current methods of existing ratings agencies, a US-based alternative asset manager said in a white paper published Thursday.  

Severe cold a million years ago forced our ancestors from the continent, but they adapted and returned.

Wood-burning cogeneration or combined heat and power (CHP) plants established by Danish energy firm Orsted will begin to have their emissions captured and stored during 2025, as part of Denmark’s first full-scale CCS agreement, the company outlined during its financial results on Thursday.

Team converts polyethylene into fatty acids, soap’s main ingredient, but say it is not panacea for plastic pollution

Scientists have discovered a method to give new life to old plastic – by converting it into soap.

Plastics are chemically similar to fatty acids, which are one of the main ingredients in soap. For Guoliang Liu, an associate professor of chemistry at Virginia Tech and author of the paper published in the journal Science, this similarity suggested it should be possible to convert polyethylene into fatty acids, and then into soap. The problem was size: molecularly, plastics are very large, about 3,000 carbon atoms long, whereas fatty acids are much smaller.

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