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Tasmania is going solar, with Epuron about to build the first two solar farms - 5MW and 12.5MW - in the island state.

Sonnen closes $95m financing round led by Shell Ventures, which will help fund expansion in Australia, and closer ties on EV charging and virtual power plants.

Global smart metering leader Landis+Gyr and Pacific Equity Partners today announced an agreement to form a joint venture for the acquisition of Acumen from Australia’s largest energyretailer, Origin Energy Limited.

Footage captured by the  Australian Wildlife Conservancy shows the construction of world’s largest cat-proof fence. Completed in central Australia, the 94 square kilometre sanctuary will provide protection  for endangered marsupials.

The 44km fence – made of 85,000 pickets, 400km of wire and 130km of netting – surrounds the Newhaven wildlife sanctuary, a former cattle station that has been bought by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy.

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Carnegie Clean Energy raises $5.3m to go towards existing and pipeline of wave, solar and battery storage microgrid projects.

German energy giant teams with Google to extend rooftop solar mapping tool to Great Britain, and potentially also to Italy.

South Australia shows surprisingly little curtailment of wind energy, even though its output can reach 120% of demand at times.

The EU is warned the satellite dispute could hinder wider security co-operation after Brexit.

National Trust finds 12% decline since 2013, with the population of one island off Northumberland down 42%

Puffin numbers at one of Britain’s most important habitats have fallen sharply, raising fears they could die out completely there within a century.

Every five years National Trust rangers carry out a census of the birds on the Farne Islands, and the latest survey has potentially grim news for the colourful seabird.

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A reported quarter of a million farmed salmon escaped from their water pens off the coast of Bruny Island after a storm damaged nets earlier this month.

This month's Federal Budget pledged an unprecedented $444 million to a single organisation — the Great Barrier Reef Foundation.

In this Background Briefing investigation reporter Bronwyn Adcock speaks to community leaders in the city of Dubbo who are fed up with drug addicts having no other option than to be sent to jail.

Background Briefing has uncovered evidence about the NSW Ambulance officers stealing fentanyl.

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Voluntary carbon market developers risk being crowded out of existence by increasingly expansive climate policies worldwide unless they quickly work out a way to earn revenues within the scope of the Paris Agreement, experts said at an event on Wednesday.

A pair of wooden paddles reminds the former Greens leader Christine Milne of her childhood spent on a Tasmanian dairy farm. As she revisits the farm for our new series about precious family objects, she reflects on how it shaped her commitment to the environment and social equality 

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All 36 people on trial over a €385-million tax fraud using the EU carbon market have been convicted by a Paris court.

California’s Air Resources Board (ARB) handed out some 176,400 carbon offsets to three initiatives this week, with a new ODS project taking home the bulk of the credits.

Australia's recently announced review of its national fuel stockpiles is timely indeed. The country is almost totally reliant on oil being shipped through some of the world's most contested regions. Anthony Richardson, Research Fellow, Future Social Service Institute, RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Sandpaper figs are the swiss army knife of Australian flora. Danica-Lea Larcombe, PhD Candidate in Biodiversity and Human Health, Edith Cowan University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.