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RACV says its newly launched virtual power plant is one of the first to compete with traditional generators in wholesale energy markets – and it wants customers to join.

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Investigations are underway following a turbine blade break at a huge new wind farm, with teams working to determine the cause of the incident and to how to detatch the affected blade.

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Claims electric cooktops are vastly more expensive and more emissions intensive than cooking with gas are being called out as “potentially misleading,” as the fossil fight against home electrification ramps up.

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Officials at Elon Musk's company said the upper stage was lost, minutes after it launched.

Officials at Elon Musk's company said the upper stage was lost, minutes after it launched.

Our society emphasises the value of conquering and overcoming your fears – but I can live with the idea of not climbing every mountain

Earlier this year, I finally climbed Mount Anne. This has taken an unlikely amount of time – I’ve been climbing Tasmanian mountains for years, but had never been up one of the island’s signature summits.

A “peak bagging” hobby is great fun, and takes you out to all sorts of interesting places. Some Tasmanians set themselves to climb the Abels, a list of 158 mountains that are at least 1100m high, but the list compiled by the Hobart Walking Club, the one I follow, is far more ridiculous – a total of 481 summits to find your way up. A list that huge seems bigger than most of them.

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Frogs, lizards, snakes and insect pests are being transported across the world on ornamental plants.

A Toyota subsidiary agreed to plead guilty to charges of emissions fraud, resulting in a $1.6 billion settlement, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said Wednesday.

The ongoing political transition in Canada and federal biofuels tax credits in the US could jeopardise Canadian clean fuel programmes, panellists at a conference said Thursday.

Looking at the year ahead, the biofuels industry will be balancing programmes across different states and federal jurisdictions, with new sustainability guardrails in California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), panellists said at a technical conference in California.

Wild tigers killed nearly 40 people in Nepal between 2019 and 2023. Solutions are hard to come by.

With the outlook for risk of fire, flood and other disasters increasing, this is not a problem that will go away

As we watch the horror of the Los Angeles fires, Australians are painfully reminded of our own vulnerability to climate change, which continues to exacerbate the impact and frequency of these unnatural disasters.

The images of loss and destruction in LA are particularly painful to those who have experienced such losses first-hand in Australia.

Nicki Hutley is an independent economist and councillor with the Climate Council

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Two energy industry companies have been awarded nearly $6 million from the US DOE to scale up technology aimed at reducing methane emissions.

The US DOE announced $13.7 million in available federal funding on Thursday to advance CO2 conversion from chemicals production and petroleum refining into usable products, adding to a string of awards since the start of the year.

Conservation groups can now share and compare climate adaptation tactics to support threatened species and ecosystems through a new online tool called AdaptLog. Jess Melbourne-Thomas, Transdisciplinary Researcher & Knowledge Broker, CSIRO Claire Mason, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

An environmental group suing the US DOE over a $1 billion loan to a nuclear plant voluntarily dropped the case Wednesday, saying that recent legislation by the state of California rendered the case moot.

The flagship UN programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) and boost forest carbon stocks has opened a public consultation for its 2026-30 strategy.

Europe’s short-term answer to high energy prices and declining competitiveness will reside in electrification, energy savings, and accelerating the buildout of renewables to meet the EU’s 2030 climate goals, said Teresa Ribera, the European Commission’s first executive vice-president, on Thursday.

Benchmark European carbon prices could average €92 this year due to EU ETS policy changes, gas-to-coal switching, and the bloc’s 2040 emission target announcement, analysts said on Thursday.

An inaugural bond for climate action has raised $500 million from largely EMEA-based investors in a round that was over six times oversubscribed.