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It’s not perfect, but the city has ambitious plans for cycling, and the Festival of Cycling offers a chance to celebrate progress

In theory, Edinburgh might not look like the perfect city for cycling. Apart from the weather there are the (in)famous hills, then there’s the … (add your own excuses here.) But things are changing.

Currently the city council is committing 10% of its transport budget to cycling, a first for a UK city, as well as introducing 20mph speed limits across a large area. And in September, Edinburgh will finally be getting its own bikeshare scheme, which will include a proportion of e-bikes to help beat the hills.

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Bronkham Hill, Dorset: The wind pours larksong over the humps and bumps of a bronze age barrow cemetery

The sound of chiffchaffs shouting in the woods falls away as I follow the South Dorset Ridgeway upwards to the high chalk. The way is starred with white stitchwort running through clumps of shocking-pink campion and the last of the bluebells.

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Workers say they are taking action in response to vast amount of windfarms being constructed in their waters

The Netherlands may be the land of the windmill, but fishermen are planning a major protest on Saturday against the Dutch government’s latest wind turbine construction in the North Sea, with an armada of fishing boats sailing into Amsterdam.

After alighting from at least 15 boats at the back of Amsterdam’s central station, it is understood that hundreds of fishermen will march to the capital’s Damrak canal, where they will upend bags of small fish deemed too small for sale by the EU, and cover them with red dye.

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South Australia becomes net electricity exporter for first time, 12 new wind and solar farms were added, the amount of large-scale solar tripled, and rooftop PV kept a lid on demand.

Company behind new "Renewable Energy Hub" says wind, solar clearly delivering electricity at 40% discount from the grid.

IEA's conservative electric vehicle growth projections expect uptake to boost global power demand by 928TWh a year in 2030 – that's four times Australia's annual consumption.

Another record month for page views for RE in May, just shy of the magic million mark with a total of 986,242.

Australia's state and federal governments could do more to boost EV uptake, but city-based policies would be far more effective.

Just when you thought Australia’s banks had reached the nadir, new data shows ‘Big Four’ lending to fossil fuel projects spiked by 50% last year.

The Australian Heritage Council’s report to the Minister for the Environment and Energy on the protection of Australia’s commemoratives places and monuments has been released.

The Australian Heritage Council’s report to the Minister for the Environment and Energy on the protection of Australia’s commemoratives places and monuments has been released.

Uzbekistan has an ambitious plan to stop widespread health problems that developed when the Aral Sea disappeared.

OzHarvest founder, Ronni Khan's fight to reduce food waste is the subject of a new documentary.

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Californian carbon prices continued their slow recovery as nerves subsided after the May 15 sold-out auction, while RGGI trade stalled in a week interrupted by the Memorial Day public holiday.

Scientists say they have found evidence of dunes of frozen methane on Pluto.

A new company is looking to expand US carbon offset opportunities in agriculture by taking the "opposite approach" to the current system of protocol development.

The US slapped import tariffs on steel and aluminium from the previously-exempted EU, Canada, and Mexico on Thursday, prompting European producers to urge retaliation against potential cuts to their EU ETS-covered output.

Here are ten common misconceptions about what dogs need and how they communicate with us. Plus, a gallery of reader and staff dog pictures! Paul McGreevy, Professor of Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare Science, University of Sydney Melissa Starling, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Biggest analysis to date reveals huge footprint of livestock - it provides just 18% of calories but takes up 83% of farmland

Avoiding meat and dairy products is the single biggest way to reduce your environmental impact on the planet, according to the scientists behind the most comprehensive analysis to date of the damage farming does to the planet.

The new research shows that without meat and dairy consumption, global farmland use could be reduced by more than 75% – an area equivalent to the US, China, European Union and Australia combined – and still feed the world. Loss of wild areas to agriculture is the leading cause of the current mass extinction of wildlife.

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