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Application for assessment under the EPBC Act - call for public comments open 6 April 2017 to 26 May 2017

Application for assessment under the EPBC Act - call for public comments open 6 April 2017 to 26 May 2017.

Application for assessment under the EPBC Act - call for public comments open 6 April 2017 to 26 May 2017.

The South Australian government's ground breaking battery storage tender has generated a huge response from interested parties, with more than 90 proposals submitted in the first fact-finding round, indicating the massive possibilities with the technology.

Application for assessment under the EPBC Act - call for public comments open 6 April 2017 to 26 May 2017

The influx includes a newly discovered breeding colony of the nomadic and somewhat mysterious banded stilt

Tens of thousands of coastal birds have flocked to the outback after record-breaking rains filled inland lakes to their highest levels in three decades.

The influx includes a newly discovered breeding colony of the nomadic and somewhat mysterious banded stilts, on one of the lakes’ islands in the remote eastern Pilbara region of Western Australia.

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Parks and Wildlife and Indigenous land and ranger groups have observed huge numbers of birds, including the mysterious banded stilt, flocking to inland lakes to breed after record-breaking rain events in Australia’s desert regions

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Chemicals firm is using Brexit as a chance to seek further exemptions from climate policy costs

Anglo-Swiss chemicals firm Ineos is privately leading an industry lobbying attempt to avoid paying for the cost of decarbonising Britain’s economy.

Documents released under freedom of information rules reveal that Ineos is pushing the government to use Brexit as a chance to exempt the chemicals sector entirely from climate policy costs.

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These powerful, and at times graphic, images bear witness to the plight of critically endangered Sumatran elephants and the challenges they face. These include the conversion of forest habitat to oil palm plantations, degradation of forest habitat by illegal logging, conflicts with farmers through crop-raiding, and being illegally hunted for their ivory tusks. While the situation is dire, the camera’s lens also finds hope in the efforts of those working to safeguard the animal’s future

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The IEA is using unrealistic assumptions about emissions and CCS to keep coal and oil in the picture.

Wastewater treatment plants are energy hogs. But a number of new technologies are promising to change this.

For the first time since its inception, the NPI data is also available as a public dataset on data.gov.au. ...

Manchester airport A grounded traveller is distracted by the pied wagtails swarming over the terminal roof

The storm has mostly moved over, but its trailing coat still ruffles the air outside Terminal 1 of Manchester airport, and the backlog of cancelled and delayed flights testifies to its handiwork. With an unexpected three hours to kill, I leave the terminal by way of a first-floor access road, as the dregs of the day drain from the oppressively blank sky.

I am braced for boredom, but an incongruous flicker of movement stops me in my tracks. The sheer brazenness of the small, energetic bird as it hops around on the asphalt is startling but, before I can contemplate it further, another bird bouncing along a railing distracts my eye. Another, then another, and, before I know it, my eyes are attempting to join 200 or more restless black and white dots, each one a point of elusive energy that seems to flee my gaze just before I can settle on it.

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It's hard to imagine that even a satire writer could write such a stupid script as the government's recent energy policy announcements.

LG Electronics is further investing in Australia’s solar market through the introduction of the LG NeON® R solar panel.

ARENA says battery storage as cheap as pumped hydro - for smaller storage projects. But both will be needed in a high renewable grid.

Scientists dose trees with atmosphere of the future to see how much they can swallow.

Scientists are learning even if you ignore politics, politics won't ignore you.

Contracts for large scale solar farms in Australia heading to $70-75/MWh for projects starting construction in 2018.

Infigen Energy today announced that it would proceed to construction of the 113.2 MW Bodangora wind farm in NSW.