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Electric cars might be a quick fix to clean up transport, but the problems with cars go beyond just emissions. Martin Brueckner, Senior Lecturer in Sustainability, Murdoch University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

ARENA awards $289,725 for Canberra company to design, manufacture and test its rapidly redeployable Container Roll Out Solar System.

The future will not only be electric, but green electric, and the transition will happen a lot quicker than most people think.

The Senior Associate reports to the U.S. Climate Alliance Executive Director. The Senior Associate supports and responds to state-led initiatives, and works with the Energy and Climate team at the United Nations Foundation, which houses the Alliance Secretariat.

Energy Security Board has finally got smart about reliability, and dumped plans promised to conservatives that would try and turn wind and solar plants into "base-load" generators. This is a huge development, and a victory for smart economics, and engineering.

Do you seek an experience where you have the ability to contribute to climate change policy and the opportunity to support ongoing integration in the implementation of strategic and operational policy? The Climate Change Policy Branch is seeking two temporary Policy Advisors for a 24-month term who are self-motivated and experienced at policy development, agile in working on critical policy initiatives and creative in resolving complex policy and regulatory problems.

Sulphur dioxide pollution from coal-fired power stations can have bad health effects — but who picks up the bill, and could power stations be doing more?

A senior Nasa engineer has said the first person to set foot on Mars should be a woman.

First exploration fracking expected next year but national parks and conservation areas will be protected

The Northern Territory government has lifted a ban on hydraulic fracturing of onshore gas that will open up more than half of the territory’s land mass to the controversial practice.

The first exploration fracking by petroleum companies is expected to occur early next year after the implementation of a regulatory regime and new laws, which the government insists will be strict.

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It's not as easy to recycle your takeaway coffee cup as people may have thought.

Most people willing to swap to supermarkets trying to improve farming standards, survey finds

Shoppers around the world overwhelmingly support high animal welfare standards for pigs, and most would also be prepared to change their supermarket habits in response, an international survey on pork consumption has found.

Seven out of 10 people questioned said they found the manner in which pigs are reared for slaughter on some factory farms “upsetting”, “wrong” or “shocking”, after being shown photographs of some pig-keeping conditions in the online poll. The survey highlighted practices such as sows kept in small cages, antibiotic use, as well as tail-docking, teeth-grinding and castration, sometimes without pain relief.

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The Ontario government has released a framework for its voluntary offset programme, approving three quantification methodologies under an ‘open architecture’ approach that doesn’t limit project types.

It might be mid-Autumn, but bushfires are still threatening homes and livelihoods across the country.

Blockchain-based carbon credit platform Poseidon has committed to spend its first tranche of cash to buying Peruvian REDD credits from UK-based Ecosphere+, as part of an initiative offering a voluntary carbon credit platform for retailers.

New research shows that fire follows fire in the Australian Alps, and old-growth forests are less flammable. Philip Zylstra, Research Fellow, flammability and fire behaviour, University of Wollongong Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The launch of the Tess mission to find new worlds beyond our Solar System is delayed by 48 hours.

Science created a 'wonder material' in plastic; now nature is helping to unmake it.

New York's grid operator has floated options for how the state might apply a carbon price to the price of traded electricity in concert with RGGI, with one alternative requiring that power suppliers provide more data than is currently required.

The breakthrough, spurred by the discovery of plastic-eating bugs at a Japanese dump, could help solve the global plastic pollution crisis

Scientists have created a mutant enzyme that breaks down plastic drinks bottles – by accident. The breakthrough could help solve the global plastic pollution crisis by enabling for the first time the full recycling of bottles.

The new research was spurred by the discovery in 2016 of the first bacterium that had naturally evolved to eat plastic, at a waste dump in Japan. Scientists have now revealed the detailed structure of the crucial enzyme produced by the bug.

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