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Macalister Demonstration Farm says 61kW solar install will pay for itself in six years – and opens the door for new benefits and greater productivity.

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Worldwide fossil fuel consumption subsidies were almost halved between 2012 and 2016, but IEA report shows this trend switched in 2017, when they increased by 12%.

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National parks and nature reserves are vital for conservation, but are also great places for recreation. Balancing the two is tricky, but it can be done if we realise parks are not just playgrounds. Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University David Salt, Science writer and editor, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Queensland has more solar capacity installed than any other state, and it is pushing down day-time wholesale prices.

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The Australian Government has reappointed Mr Andrew Dyer as the National Wind Farm Commissioner for a further three year term.

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Chief scientist estimates Australia could reap benefits from hydrogen technology

Australians will soon power their homes with hydrogen in a five-year trial that scientists say could open the door to the widespread use of a new form of renewable energy.

Within two years, gas company Jemena and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Arena) plan to mix a small amount of hydrogen into the domestic gas grid in western Sydney.

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NSW launches one of the most significant energy transition projects in Australia, with an Emerging Energy Program designed to help replace most of state's ageing coal plants with wind, solar and storage over next 15 years.

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Interns working with American Progress’ Energy and Environment team will have the opportunity to complete substantive work across the team’s four main focuses: international climate policy, domestic energy policy, oceans policy, and public lands policy.

New WHO guidelines say policy makers and urban planners need to reduce the noise in our environment, so we can all be healthier.

A petition filed Tuesday on behalf of a dozen environmental organisations accused the US EPA of illegally allowing millions of acres of wildlife habitat to be converted to cropland to satisfy the federal biofuels programme, releasing millions of tonnes of GHGs in the process.

The European Commission on Tuesday adopted proposals to amend the EU ETS Auctioning Regulation to allow for the 2020 start of carbon allowance sales for the bloc’s Innovation Fund, as well as the renewal of Germany’s auction platform contract, amid critical feedback from one of its exchange partners.

Vishnu Viswanath and Meenakshi Moorthy of India apparently set up their camera near popular overlook with no railing

An Indian husband and wife who fell to their deaths from a popular overlook at Yosemite national park in California were apparently taking a selfie, the man’s brother said Tuesday.

Park rangers recovered the bodies of Vishnu Viswanath, 29, and Meenakshi Moorthy, 30, on Thursday about 800ft (245 meters) below Taft Point, where visitors can walk to the edge of a vertigo-inducing granite ledge that doesn’t have a railing.

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A major WWF report has found humanity has wiped out 60 per cent of the world's animals since 1970.

EU carbon prices suffered a fourth day of heavy falls on Tuesday, tumbling more than 8% before a late round of buying lifted prices back above €16.

Standing 240m tall, the Statue of Unity celebrates India's development. But jarringly, it towers over a divisive and environmentally damaging dam project. Ruth Gamble, David Myers Research Fellow, La Trobe University Alexander E. Davis, New Generation Network Fellow, La Trobe University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Prince Charles has said that all he really wants to do is plant trees. When I turned a patch of land into a wood, I learned how important this is

‘What’s all this tree-planting for?” I was asked when I began writing about restoring a piece of land I had bought in Somerset as a wood-cum-orchard. The truth is, I just love trees. And I am not alone. “As I get older, all I really long for is to plant trees,” Prince Charles says in a forthcoming BBC documentary in which he is filmed in the wood he planted on the day Prince George was born. I, too, love to be among trees, and want to leave young ones behind when I die. This is why I planted them, and continue to plant them.

We have inherited mature and wonderful trees in our cities, towns, villages, gardens, cemeteries, woods and countryside. They were planted, or self-sown, years, even centuries ago. We take them for granted, ignore the creatures living among them, remain in ignorance of the good trees are doing us (cleaning the air, for instance) and cut them down for new developments. Yet we retain a feeling of affection for the idea of them, which may account for the reaction the government faced in 2010 when it sought to sell off publicly owned woods, and for the wide support the Woodland Trust attracts.

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Largely relieved of pressure from deforestation and hunting, bears are increasingly coming into contact with people

The swift rebound of bear populations in the US is presenting a growing number of Americans with a major challenge – what to do about the enormous hirsute neighbors that are breaking into their homes, gorging on their food and guzzling their cans of soda?

Black bears, largely relieved of pressure on their numbers from untrammeled deforestation and hunting, are increasingly coming into contact with people in places where the two species haven’t interacted in many decades.

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China still plans to bring emissions-intensive manufacturing industries into its national ETS as soon as possible as it is set to start the programme with only the power sector, an official said Tuesday.