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Australia needs to act quickly or lose out to faster movers on green iron and steel elsewhere, an industry decarbonisation expert warns.

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We undertook a global survey of business leaders, including Australian businesses, and the findings on decarbonisation should be cause for concern.

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Cornwall Wildlife Trust initiative aims to benefit creatures from upland marsh fritillaries to seahorses in St Austell Bay

A Cornish conservation charity has launched an ambitious rewilding project intended to benefit creatures from marsh fritillary butterflies living high on the moor to long-snouted seahorses in seagrass in a bay five miles away.

The Tor to Shore project will stretch from Helman Tor, a reserve topped with a granite boulder summit near Bodmin, to St Austell Bay via the tumbling River Par, its idea to improve a landscape at scale.

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Big nuclear unit in Texas trips after a fire, and the state's growing battery fleet reacts to keep the grid stable. Who knew nuclear needs backup?

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BloombergNEF says most aspects of Australia's green energy transition are happening too slow, and it has mixed forecasts on storage, solar and wind.

The post Sluggish, slow and anaemic: BloombergNEF’s sad take on Australia’s green energy transition appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Japanese government confirms it will allow whalers to catch and kill up to 59 fin whales, a species conservationists consider vulnerable

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The Australian government is “deeply disappointed” by Japan’s decision to add the world’s second-largest whale species to the list of species its commercial whale hunters will target.

Tanya Plibersek, the environment minister, attacked Japan’s decision to hunt fin whales – the world’s second-longest whale and considered vulnerable.

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ASX-listed BIPV innovator inks deal that will see its clear solar glass products made and sold in the Middle East, North Africa and India.

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Zen Energy helps power Australia’s first 100 per cent renewable media organisation in a deal tied to the 227MW Collector wind farm.

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China's environment ministry on Wednesday evening announced it had approved, in principle, a draft allocation plan that will determine the supply-demand dynamics in the national emissions market over the 2023-24 period.

Eight new shoots have been discovered emerging from the base of the felled tree on Hadrian's Wall.

Efforts by First Nations groups to thin dense forest regrowth have come under fire in Victoria. The solution isn’t to restore “wilderness” – it’s to manage Country. Jack Pascoe, Research fellow in ecology and land management, The University of Melbourne Patrick Baker, ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology, The University of Melbourne Tom Fairman, Future Fire Risk Analyst, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Air-gun and catapult attacks have been blamed for another decline in swans on the River Thames.

A bipartisan group of US senators on Tuesday urged President Joe Biden’s administration to limit an upcoming biofuels tax credit to those produced from domestic feedstocks.

Renewable diesel (RD) will comprise a majority of credit generation in Canada’s Clean Fuel Regulation (CFR) market by 2030, analysts told a webinar Wednesday, as an industry association speaker pointed to factors that could impact the actualisation of that trajectory.

A Democratic member of the US House of Representatives introduced Tuesday legislation that would set an enforceable, economy-wide cap on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, requiring emitters to purchase allowances under a declining cap from auctions conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Opposition leader’s argument is puzzling given Canadian provinces dominated by renewables pay less for electricity

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There’s a community in Ontario called Dutton which, right now, seems appropriate given the number of times Peter Dutton has name-checked the Canadian province over the last 12 months.

In dozens of media interviews and speeches, Dutton (the opposition leader, not the township) has said Ontarians are getting cheap electricity because of their 20 nuclear reactors.

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Rory Golden, who was on the Titan sub's support ship when it went missing, recounts the experience.

Rory Golden, who was on the Titan sub's support ship when it went missing, recounts the experience.

From the Arctic to the Himalayas, New Zealand and even Mexico, glaciers worldwide are retreating. But what happens when the ice is gone? Levan Tielidze, Research Fellow in glacial geomorphology, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Any heater that burns fuel without adequate ventilation is dangerous in a home – and none are as safe or efficient as a reverse-cycle air conditioner. Christine Cowie, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Air Quality and Health Research and Evaluation, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney; Senior Research Fellow, South West Sydney Clinical School, UNSW Sydney Bill Dodd, Knowledge Broker, Centre for Safe Air (NHMRC CRE), and Adjunct Researcher, Media School, University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.