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Anglian Water bills to rise to pay for infrastructure
Transgrid chooses lower cost option to connect NSW load centres with regional renewables
Transgrid settles on new lower-cost option for a "Sydney ring" that will allow more renewables to flow into major load centres.
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Sydney moves to ban gas, as councils go where NSW Labor fears to tread
City of Sydney becomes the latest NSW local government to harness its own planning powers to mandate all-electric appliances in new homes and businesses.
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German state looks to remove minimum distance rule for wind turbines
North Rhine-Westphalia looks set to abolish a controversial rule on the minimum distance wind turbines must be from the nearest residence.
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I’ve spent 40 years in Antarctic research. Right now it’s facing a climate emergency so we must not put vital science on ice | Dana M Bergstrom for the Conversation
Antarctica is experiencing disturbing changes – from missing winter sea ice to disintegrating ice shelves – and it’s almost certain things will get worse
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After decades immersed in Antarctic science, I’ve learned that physical and biological changes rarely occur smoothly. More often than not, they unfold in sharp steps. Right now, Antarctica’s climate and ecosystems are experiencing disturbing changes.
Much of this winter’s sea ice is missing. A crucial ocean current is slowing down, and glaciers and ice shelves are disintegrating.
Changes in Antarctic and Southern Ocean environments are linked to, and influence, climate impact drivers globally.
Continue reading...Policy and national oil giants drive SE Asian renewables push
“This is the transaction in action:” AGL opens its first big battery, Liddell next in line
AGL opens Torrens Island battery - the second biggest in the country and the first to be built by AGL - as it eyes more battery projects at the sites of its ageing coal plants.
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Sustainability is often an afterthought in space exploration – that needs to change as the industry grows
In the new gold rush, farmers are asked to decide between food, carbon and renewable energy – but we need them all | Gabrielle Chan
Australia needs firm policy guidelines to prevent breathless campaigns against renewables, but the conflicts over land use are real
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This week we are expecting representatives of a solar energy company to come to our farm in southern New South Wales. They want to build next door.
We are not in a renewable energy zone but we are close to existing transmission lines.
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Continue reading...Fukushima: wastewater from ruined nuclear plant to be released from Thursday, Japan says
Release plans approved by UN nuclear authority have caused outcry in China and concern for the reputation of Japan’s seafood
Japan is to begin releasing wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant from Thursday, in defiance of opposition from fishing communities, China and some scientists.
The prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has said that disposing of more than 1m tonnes of water being stored at the site is an essential part of the long and complex process to decommission the plant.
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Conservation organisations file legal challenge against Virginia RGGI programme repeal
Conservation: Lifeline for endangered insect feared extinct
Bahamas drafts carbon market regulations more than a year after PM unveiled legislation
Overhaul poultry farming to tackle spread of bird flu, urge campaigners
Report argues chickens should be kept in much smaller flocks and given more space
The industrial poultry farming sector needs to be radically restructured to stop the spread of bird flu, says a report that argues wild birds are victims rather than the main vectors of the disease.
Bird flu is spiralling out of control and being spread by intensive poultry farms, according toreport by the campaign group Compassion in World Farming (CIWF).
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