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Only two chicks survived in a colony of 36,000 in a "catastrophic" breeding season in east Antarctica.

Cast: AdelaideSBN

Cast: AdelaideSBN

Cast: AdelaideSBN

The Department of the Environment and Energy has drafted a cost recovery implementation statement (CRIS) that sets out how proposed cost recovery charges (fees and levies) will be implemented for regulating emissions standards for NRSIEE.

The Australian Petroleum Statistics provide statistics on petroleum production, refinery inputs and outputs, sales and stocks of petroleum products, and prices.

Fitted with a body camera, a sewer engineer tries to remove a blockage.

While Tony Abbott's London climate speech has been widely criticised, research suggests his views have long had a sympathetic ear in Australia's coal heartland. Vanessa Bowden, Associate Lecture in Social Enquiry, University of Newcastle Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

As the Clean Energy Target fades away, perhaps a Dispatchable Reliable Energy Target will be innocuous enough to pass the Liberal party room and the Senate. Alan Pears, Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The uptake of solar – by consumers and in large-scale solar farms – could be far quicker than anyone is currently contemplating. If this is managed well, with battery and other forms of storage, there will be little need for many of the remaining coal generators.

TAI report shows 64% of all party supporters in favour of policies to increase EV uptake – so what aren't governments doing?

The famous World Solar Challenge was won for the seventh time by the Netherlands’ Nuon Solar team.

Australia Institute wants free access to bus lanes after electric cars accounted for just 0.1% of new car sales in 2015

Tax breaks and free access to bus lanes should be used to help reverse Australia’s poor uptake of electric vehicles, a new report has said.

Australians remain deeply reluctant to buy electric cars, which accounted for just 0.1% of new car sales in 2015. Australia is increasingly falling behind other countries, particularly in Europe, where sales of electric cars represented 1.2% of new European Union car sales in the same year.

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The UK Government has announced an ambitious new Clean Growth Strategy to drastically cut carbon emissions and combat climate change.

UK-based Foresight Solar Fund Limited continues Australian buying spree, taking shares in three Queensland projects under development.

We will never have an effective broad-based emission reduction policy – no matter who is in government. Best to look at alternatives, like reverse auctions.

A UK-assembled satellite is set to go into orbit shortly to monitor air quality around the globe.

MPower tapped by Endeavour Energy to install 1MWh battery on network in NSW, in a trial hoped to save $1m a year on grid costs.

What will it take to build the ultra-fast internet of the future?

Clock ticks down on Victoria government's plans to have two large scale battery storage projects in place by January 1, with the winners still not known.