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SwitchedOn podcast: How community batteries can help the energy transition
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World-first 20MW offshore wind turbine installed in China
Mingyang Smart Energy completes installation of a 20MW offshore wind turbine, the world's largest.
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The NEM in Spring – average spot prices negative over the week in Victoria and South Australia
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New offshore wind zone cut in half and pushed further off coast
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Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson says Japan seeking to make an example of him
In an interview from jail in Greenland with the AFP news agency, the anti-whaling activist said Tokyo has a vendetta against him
Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson has said that authorities in Tokyo are seeking to make an example of him, as he awaits a possible extradition to Japan, while in detention in a Greenland prison.
Speaking to the AFP news agency, the 73-year-old US-Canadian campaigner said his time behind bars has not prevented him from continuing his fight to save whales.
Continue reading...Australian regulator reduces audit requirements for low risk plantation projects
Solar Sunshot: ARENA opens up $550 million funding in search for ultra low cost solar
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US DAC firm pauses development of Wyoming facility, decides to relocate to another state
Latest battery storage tender swamped by offers and six times over subscribed
First CIS auction for battery storage in Western Australia more than six times over-subscribed.
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Striking images reveal depths of Titanic's slow decay
Investment firm, startup secure UK Space Agency funding to integrate satellite data into natural capital strategies
‘It’s time to give up on normal’: what winter’s weird weather means for the warm months ahead
Paraguay translating carbon markets law into regulation
MP calls on NSW government to remove 51 shark nets after hundreds of dolphins and turtles killed last summer
Advocates against nets say sharks can easily swim underneath and drone surveillance is more effective
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Experts, marine conservation groups and an MP are all urging the New South Wales government to ban anti-shark nets, which kill large numbers of turtles and dolphins, after 51 nets were installed along the state’s coastline.
Last summer more than 90% of marine animals caught in shark nets were not sharks, while more than half of the 208 non-target species caught – such as turtles, dolphins and smaller sharks – were killed, data showed.
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Continue reading...Why bother going on holiday when I can watch other people’s on TikTok? | Emma Beddington
I’ve discovered the perfect way to avoid the stress of travel, the mosquito bites and the overtourism. Plus, I can stay at home and tend my tomatoes while knowing I’m saving the planet
I haven’t been on holiday this summer, but don’t start tuning the tiny violins. I derive an unusual satisfaction from working when others aren’t (burning martyr is my preferred summer fragrance) and I don’t like change, or strange pillows. Plus, what would Susan, the pigeon who lives on our roof, and my bounteous crop of five unripe tomatoes do without me?
A summer holiday just doesn’t appeal. Is that weird? It feels as if the climate crisis is killing the notion of summer as something to look forward to and holiday hotspots (literally) are losing their lustre, with Greek islands reaching fatal temperatures and Sicily stricken with catastrophic drought.
Continue reading...How a little-known 17th-century female scientist changed our understanding of insects
Maria Sibylla Merian’s beautiful and disturbing illustrations, which shaped how we look at the natural world, will be on show at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum
More than three centuries after she made a perilous transatlantic voyage to study butterflies, a rare copy of the hand-coloured masterwork by the great naturalist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian is returning to Amsterdam.
The Rijksmuseum, which holds more than half-a-million books on art and history, last week announced it had acquired a rare first-edition copy of Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname (Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium), described as a high point of 18th-century book production when the Dutch Republic was “the bookshop of the world”.
Continue reading...South Australia runs on more than 100 pct net renewables in last week of winter
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Tasmanians prepare to evacuate amid major flood warning as Victorians warned of destructive winds
The south-east of the country is taking a battering and there is more to come as a ‘very strong cold front’ moves through on Sunday
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Tasmanian emergency services were urging residents and businesses along the Derwent River to prepare to evacuate on Sunday, while Victorians have been warned of destructive winds as wild weather batters the south-east of the country.
The Tasmanian state emergency service urged communities in Meadowbank, Glenora, Bushy Park, Gretna and Macquarie Plains to prepare for flooding, with authorities suggesting they could become isolated for several days. An evacuation centre has opened in New Norfolk.
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