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The profits of the big five Western oil majors have reached nearly $300 billion since Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago, according to analysis from an NGO.

Western Australia's main grid has smashed its operational demand record as parts of the state became the hottest place on the planet over the weekend.

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Ukraine has become the 29th country to sign up to Japan’s Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), in the hope of generating carbon credits aligned with the Paris Agreement.

Federal and WA governments finalise joint funding of $140 million to kick-start construction of infrastructure underpinning the proposed Pilbara Hydrogen Hub.

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Green anacondas are the world’s heaviest snakes, and among the longest. it’s remarkable this hidden species has slipped under the radar until now. Bryan G. Fry, Professor of Toxicology, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Right to roam campaigners say hundreds of "open country" locations are inaccessible to the public.

Market operator says wind farms worked "as designed" in Victoria storms, but Murdoch media leading extraordinary attack on renewables.

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Construction starts on 250MW, two-hour big battery that will store solar generated by Ipswich rooftops and help wean the Queensland grid off coal.

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Veteran environmentalist Bob Brown and two supporters have been charged over a logging protest in defence of Tasmania's giant trees.

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Giant blades complete might be the longest travelled by wind turbines parts in Australia to date.

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An unprecedented US Supreme Court hearing on Feb. 21 could open the door for challengers of federal environmental policies to effectively halt the implementation of regulations while those policies are being litigated, legal experts warn.

European carmakers are failing to deliver affordable models for electric vehicles, data show, contrary to popular belief that low consumer demand is behind a "backpedalling" on production plans.

Concrete pours have been completed and the first of battery modules have arrived on the site of South Australia's biggest battery project.

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New research examines which areas of Australia will have the worst conditions for solar degradation out to 2059 – and what we can do about it.

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There are two approaches to producing low-emission hydrogen, and public acceptance (or rejection) of each method will be important for hydrogen and its place in the energy transition. Mitchell Scovell, Research Scientist, CSIRO Andrea Walton, Social Scientist, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

We need international gatherings if we are to find a common language to resist environmental destruction

In the autumn of 1945, the Scotsman newspaper reported excitedly on an ambitious project to establish Edinburgh as a world centre for music and drama. It would host the first great postwar international art assembly in Europe, with a mission to celebrate the “flowering of the human spirit”. Two years later, the Edinburgh international festival was born.

Seven decades on, that flowering might sometimes appear overabundant. Scotland alone has 18 book festivals this year, while the Association of Festival Organisers, which is currently updating a survey from 2022, estimates that, despite a ripple of post-Covid closures, there will as many as 900 music jamborees across the UK. Faced with the double whammy of shrinking incomes and vanishing subsidies, prices have risen and audiences have aged, while organisers face an annual scramble to fill gaping holes in their budgets that yawn wider the more brave and imaginative they are. Meanwhile, the search for alternative sources of funding, either from business or from overseas, has been repeatedly complicated by ethical issues.

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Fourteen new migratory species will be protected under the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) as delegates at the UN summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan committed to raising transboundary efforts on wildlife conservation.

At Native Cat Flat in Victoria’s Alpine national park, four fenced-off areas show a strikingly different ecology,  highlighting the damage wrought by more than 2,700 feral horses in the area. Behind the fences, lush sphagnum, dense vegetation, grass tussocks, shrubs and herbs thrive. Outside the plots, the ground is pockmarked with deep hoofprints, and the native grasses are overgrazed, exposing endangered animals in the area — which rely on dense vegetation — to predators

• ‘Feral horses don’t know state borders’: the push to protect Victoria’s Alpine national park

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British producers to back EU’s proposed regulations to stop trade in adulterated honey

Britain’s beekeepers are backing ­proposed new rules to combat fraud in the supply chain, ensuring a jar of honey can be traced on its journey of up to 5,000 miles from the beehive to the shop shelf.

The European parliament has agreed new labelling rules and a project to establish a traceability system for honey from harvesting to the consumer. The proposed rules are part of an overhaul of the “breakfast directives”, including the honey directive.

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Vast reforestation a major reason for ‘warming hole’ across parts of US where temperatures have flatlined or cooled

Trees provide innumerable benefits to the world, from food to shelter to oxygen, but researchers have now found their dramatic rebound in the eastern US has delivered a further, stunning feat – the curtailing of the soaring temperatures caused by the climate crisis.

While the US, like the rest of the world, has heated up since industrial times due to the burning of fossil fuels, scientists have long been puzzled by a so-called “warming hole” over parts of the US south-east where temperatures have flatlined, or even cooled, despite the unmistakable broader warming trend.

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