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If the NEG had a jointly agreed emissions reduction target it would provide certainty. But it doesn’t.

Raveningham, Norfolk: Soon my yellow shirt is smothered in tiny black dots, and across the field there must be millions of pollen beetles

“Just passionate about life” is how Jake Fiennes, manager at this Yare valley estate, defines his approach to his job. It is also the phrase he uses to dodge my question about whether he’s a farmer or an environmentalist. For him the two are inextricably fused.

After haring across the valley on his tipoff, I find him combining both roles as he contemplates a field of rape. The 10-hectare plot looks commonplace until I log into the cloud of birds swirling overhead. Had I been here earlier I’d have seen 500 but, as it is, many scores of swifts and house martins swarm above the field. Together they cruise down and spire through the top of the crop, threading and rethreading it in an orgy of hunting.

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Challenged in court three times by Donald Trump, Vattenfall's 93.2MW offshore wind farm is now sending power to the Scottish grid.

ARENA backs "green hydrogen" project in W.A. that will combine solar and battery storage and an electrolyser for a micro-grid trial.

Australia's Tritium installs 12 of its world-leading high power EV chargers on German autobahn, offering recharge almost as fast as filling up with petrol.

The production of renewable energy in Germany dashes to a new record output, providing more than 40 percent of the country's power supply in the first half of 2018.

Which would win*: humans or volcanoes? (*In a fight over carbon emissions)

CEFC makes first financing of smart meter technology – an integral part of Australia's energy transformation, particularly for consumers.

How do you get a truly energy-efficient home, and can smart home technologies help or make things worse?

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Companies are increasingly looking to carbon ‘insetting’ to blend corporate-set climate targets with an attention to resiliency and co-benefits, according to two European-based entities speaking at a webinar on Monday.

The weather system was captured at Lake Superior, Michigan, in the US.

EU carbon allowances crawled back above €15 on Monday, helped higher by a bullish auction result, as wider European energy prices flirted with new multi-year highs.

Simon Hodgson of Forest Enterprise England says broadleaved trees, including oak, are still seen as a strong part of the country’s homegrown timber supply

Re your article (‘There’s no oak left in England, just no more’, 28 June), the Forestry Commission in England over the past eight years has planted almost 1.7m oak trees (on top of those that we encourage to grow naturally from self-set acorns), the vast majority with the aim to supply high-quality timber and all in places expertly selected by our professional foresters to see them thrive. We see broadleaved trees, including oak, as a strong part of our homegrown timber supply and last year we saw record prices paid for our hardwoods. Yes, there will always be a greater emphasis on conifer trees for timber supply, but to say almost nothing is happening for oak is unfair. This is a country that cares about, and is committed to, expanding resilient forests.
Simon Hodgson
Chief executive, Forest Enterprise England, Forestry Commission

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The strain is different to that found in humans, but a genome study hopes to provide clues to fight the infection.

Astronomers have directly imaged a recently formed planet in a distant solar system.

French artist Marina Rees has formed a "whale choir" to launch her new exhibition

Scientists fail to find a koala cuteness gene but DNA may lead to a vaccine for chlamydia in the iconic marsupial.

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Environmental campaigners appear in London’s high court to oppose UK Oil and Gas’s attempt to ban protests at three UK sites

Six environmental campaigners have taken legal action to overturn a broad injunction which is being sought by an energy firm against protesters.

The group went to the high court in London on Monday to oppose the injunction which is being sought by UK Oil and Gas (UKOG).

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