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EUAs fell to a three-day low before climbing back into positive territory on Wednesday, halting their slide from an 11-year high earlier this week as buyers emerged following this morning's bumper auction.

The birds, whose numbers once dropped to just 22 in the wild in the early 1980s, have two new chicks: Nos 1,000 and 1,001

Nestled among the red-rock cliffs of Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon, California condor chicks No 1,000 and 1,001 blinked into this world. Their birth signalled success for a decades-long program to bring North America’s largest bird back from the brink of extinction.

As a result of hunting, diminishing food and dwindling territory, the number of birds in the wild numbered just 22 in the early 1980s. Lead poisoning was also a major killer, caused by inadvertently ingesting bullets that hunters left inside dead animals that the enormous birds, which have a wingspan of 9.5 feet and weigh up to 25lbs, scavenged for food.

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Start-up NeuraLink wants to start testing its human computer interface on humans.

Melbourne Knowledge Week is a carbon neutral certified event

City Centre Motor Inn is certified carbon neutral for its business operations and accommodation service

Crown Estate holds rights to seabeds around British Isles for wind and wave power

The Queen’s property managers will this week set out terms for the world’s biggest offshore wind auction in a decade.

Industry experts expect the complex bidding process to raise record sums, which could increase energy bills and hand a windfall to the crown – potentially generating hundreds of millions for the Queen.

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S.A. government awards planning approval for compressed air energy storage system, a national first and another big step forward for clean energy in Australia.

The post Australia’s first compressed air energy storage system gets development approval appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Adani's request for the names of individual scientists reviewing their groundwater management plan has chilling implications for scientific independence. Samantha Hepburn, Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

US has offered close to 378m acres of public lands and waters for oil and gas leasing since Trump took office through April 2019

Donald Trump’s leases of public lands and waters for oil and gas drilling could lead to the production of more climate-warming pollution than the entire European Union contributes in a year, according to a new report.

The Wilderness Society estimates heat-trapping emissions from extracting and burning those fossil fuels could range between 854m and 4.7bn metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, depending on how much development companies pursue.

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Future Super will partner with RateSetter to expand the availability to affordable finance for residential solar and storage systems.

The post Future Super partners with RateSetter to provide solar and battery loans appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Market Forces seeks the support of super funds for its shareholder resolution pushing AGL to accelerate its transition out of coal.

The post Investors asked to support accelerated retirement of AGL’s coal fleet appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Five years to the day since the repeal of the carbon tax, emissions and prices have both increased, and the Australian economy is slowing. So, what was the point?

The post Five years after carbon price repeal, Australia remains in policy abyss appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Exclusive: ‘Sneaky’ rezoning exercise now under way to address timber shortfall

The New South Wales government is considering reclassifying old growth forest to open up some protected reserves in the state’s north-east to the timber industry.

The Natural Resources Commission of NSW has been asked to remap and rezone old growth forest in state forest informal reserves that were previously off limits to logging. Environment groups are concerned the move is an attempt to unpick forest protections that have been in place for decades.

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Eytan Lenko, chair of Beyond Zero Emissions, explains why governments, suppliers, developers, and financiers are getting behind proposals for the world’s biggest solar project in the N.T.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Behind Northern Territory’s 10GW solar plans appeared first on RenewEconomy.

MPs say the simple step of adding more ethanol to the UK's fuel mix would be same as taking 700,000 cars off the roads.

Apollo 11's journey seen from Mission Control

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The Moon appears red on the day of the 50th anniversary of the historic space flight.

Timothy Mwangi has cared for chimpanzees for nearly two decades at this rescue centre in Kenya.

Could a year's global plastic waste circle the Earth four times over?