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Australian oil and gas producer Woodside has been taken to task over its net zero aspirations, with an environmental group describing them as nothing more than greenwashing.

Australia’s First Peoples have a strong and continuing connection to the land. Their determination to maintain this connection provides important opportunities for conservation. Our new research explored… Amanda Lilleyman, Adjunct associate, Charles Darwin University Jack Pascoe, Research fellow, The University of Melbourne Stephen Garnett, Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

It’s hard work saving birds from extinction, but we have the evidence of successful interventions to show we can avoid further losses. John Woinarski, Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University Sarah Legge, Professor of Wildlife Ecology, Australian National University Stephen Garnett, Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

South Australia reached a record average of 82% renewables in the December quarter, establishing a stunning blueprint for the way the entire Australia grid could reach the federal government's current national target for 2030.

The post South Australia enjoyed 82 pct wind and solar for entire December quarter. So it can be done appeared first on RenewEconomy.

January kicks off 2024 with another two solar records for Australia, including all-time monthly highs for utility solar generation in NSW and Queensland.

The post Wind in the west, solar in the east as NSW and Qld set new output records appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Brisbane-based company will make 15MWh of "energy pods" for a microgrid project funded by the California Energy Commission.

The post Redflow gets green light to supply 15MWh battery for California microgrid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Energy intelligence company Proa has revealed the key role its proprietary technology played in powering up two long delayed solar farms in Darwin.

The post How a Melbourne company helped break the Top End’s solar farm stalemate appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Woodside has been accused of trying to "hoodwink" communities, governments and investors with misleading net-zero goals, while expanding oil and gas production.

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Rule breaches such as sewage spills should cost bosses their bonuses, the environment secretary says.

When you have excess solar energy from your roof, it shouldn’t be resold to your neighbour at the retail rate charged for the market's regulatory mess.

The post Households need a fair go on the grid for solar, batteries and EVs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

From this week, developments must result in more or better natural habitat than before, in a move hailed as one of the world’s most ambitious

England is launching a biodiversity credit scheme this week that attempts to force all new road and housebuilding projects to benefit nature, rather than damage it.

The “nature market”, called biodiversity net gain (BNG), means all new building projects must achieve a 10% net gain in biodiversity or habitat. If a woodland is destroyed by a road, for example, another needs to be recreated. This can happen either on site or elsewhere.

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The US Environmental Protection Agency's has announced a new standard for protecting the public from fine particulate air pollution. Scientists explain why.

The post Heart attacks, cancer, dementia: Four essential reads on the health effects driving US EPA’s fine particle air pollution standard appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Emissions from maritime vessels are set to surge by up to 70% as companies increase speeds to compensate for the longer voyages necessitated by re-routing around the Cape of Good Hope instead of through the riskier Suez Canal.

Australia’s largest oil and gas producer stands accused of distracting from credible action to cut emissions by greenwashing its fossil fuel plans

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Australia’s largest oil and gas producer, Woodside Energy, has expanded its focus on fossil fuel exploration and increased its direct greenhouse gas pollution since announcing it had an “aspiration” of reaching net zero emissions.

Woodside’s spending on looking for new oil and gas reserves was $160m in 2019 and dipped to $96m in 2021 – a year affected by the Covid-19 pandemic – before rising to $418m in 2022, according to a report by the Australian Conservation Foundation.

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As we go from fishing to fish farming, we should borrow restorative approaches from permaculture. Scott Spillias, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Agency’s draft report backs paraquat’s safety but lawsuit’s plaintiffs say EPA ignored evidence of Parkinson’s risk

The US Environmental Protection Agency is doubling down on its controversial finding that a toxic herbicide is safe for use across millions of acres of American cropland, despite what public health advocates characterize as virtual “scientific proof” the product causes Parkinson’s disease.

The agency in 2021 reapproved paraquat-based herbicides for use, but a coalition of agricultural and public health groups sued, charging that the EPA had ignored broad scientific consensus linking the substance to Parkinson’s.

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An alligator snapping turtle, with a jaw experts say can break through bone, was spotted living by a lake in Cumbria.

The animal is native to swamplands of the southern US such as Florida, has a hard and rugged shell as well as a sharp and wide jaw.

Vets said despite not being used to the cooler climate in the UK, the turtle, who has been named Fluffy, was relatively healthy, although a little lethargic when first brought in. The turtle will soon be moving to a specialist wildlife centre in Cornwall

• Fluffy the alligator snapping turtle with ‘nasty bite’ found in Cumbrian tarn

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This sorry saga is not encouraging if it is a precedent for how Labour will handle the hard choices that it will face in government

I know a dead pledge when I see one, and I’m looking at one now. Labour’s green prosperity plan is history. It’s kicked the bucket, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-pledge. It has suffered the same fate as the Norwegian Blue in Monty Python’s Dead Parrot sketch.

The abandonment of the commitment to invest £28bn a year to accelerate the transition to a carbon-free economy is not a routine political volte-face. This was Sir Keir Starmer’s signature pledge, one launched with tremendous fanfare as his flagship policy in 2021. There has not been a larger, more contentious or more excruciating U-turn during his time as Labour leader.

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With the royals as ambassadors for these luxury cars, there’s little hope for the rest of us

If you have tears – that is, any not used up on MPs struggling to get by, parents forced to choose between skiing and private schools, second homeowners who feel unwelcome, Etonians shut out of Oxbridge, and people cut adrift with unusable city wood burners – prepare to shed them on the latest affluent but afflicted minority: Range Rover owners unable afford their car insurance.

Thanks in large part to the Daily Mail, which has been prioritising their plight, a series of distressing cases has recently come to light. One owner, it reports, gave up after being quoted £14,000 to insure his £100,000 Range Rover Sport, and instead “bought himself a new Mercedes GLE”. Insurers, who say the vehicles are too likely to be stolen, seem to be deaf to the suffering of owners whose only fault was to buy an obese status symbol coveted by many hard-working criminals, as well as by Prince Andrew.

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Researchers say they have found a way of enhancing accuracy in forecasting carbon prices in the EU ETS.