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Drilling at Preston New Road is last-ditch effort to convince regulators to relax safety rules

Cuadrilla plans to restart fracking at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire in a last-ditch effort to convince policymakers to relax safety rules.

The first company to frack for shale gas in the UK will drill a second well near Blackpool after it was forced to abandon the first, which caused multiple earth tremors.

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Soil is pretty remarkable stuff. It provides 95% of our food, helps regulate the Earth’s atmosphere and is a bigger carbon sink than all the world's forests combined. In fact, it basically enables all life on this planet to exist. So why do we treat it like dirt? The Guardian journalist Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out how we are destroying it, but also discovers some of the progress made in the race to protect the Earth’s soils

• 'It's a groundswell': the farmers fighting to save the Earth's soil

Soil organisations

• Campaign to protect rural England 
• Sustainable Soils Alliance
• Soil Association

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The 25 Zero Project.  Twenty-five mountains on the equator have glaciers at their peaks. Unless we slow down climate change, in twenty-five years there will be zero ice. 25 Zero.

The giant block of ice has spun around and is now moving north along the Antarctic Peninsula.

The race is on to transition to a low-carbon economy. If we ditch fossil fuels will electricity and heating be even more expensive? Three energy specialists weigh up the pros and cons of solar, wind, hydro, biomass and hydrogen.

Making renewable energy reliable and affordable and glaciers disappear as climate change bites.

The Canadian federal Conservatives' plan to eliminate or overhaul parts of the ruling Liberals’ climate and CO2 pricing strategy would prove costly and take the country further away from its Paris Agreement target, according to a report released Thursday.

Whether Australia should increase its emissions target under the Paris Agreement, change the approach of the ERF, and access the international carbon offset market were among the issues in the policy review launched by the independent Climate Change Authority on Thursday.

Edinburgh will feel like Paris and Leeds could be as warm as Melbourne, according to a study.

Humans and dogs have lived together for thousands of years, but we may be forgetting how to co-exist peacefully. Paul McGreevy, Professor of Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare Science, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Groups say expanding access to contraception can improve lives and help save wildlife

A UN-backed campaign has been launched to help tackle the destruction of wildlife by boosting people’s access to contraception.

Growing human populations often underlie the destruction of nature, and barriers to family planning are the “most important ignored environmental challenge”, say the campaigners.

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Australia now has half a dozen large batteries operating or nearing completion on the grid. Where to now? We talk to Fluence business development head Jaad Cabbabe.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Where to now for battery storage? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Cutting-edge distributed energy resources trials in Carnarvon awarded a joint Silver in APEC Energy Smart Communities Initiative Best Practice Awards.

The post Horizon Power wins a Silver in prestigious APEC awards appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Hayabusa-2 craft will pick up fresh space rock that could help explain how the Solar System evolved.

GoodWe has recently launched its brand-new EHR Series battery-ready inverters with power classes  3.6kW, 5kW and 6kW.

The post GoodWe launches a true battery-ready solar solution appeared first on RenewEconomy.

ClearVue has signed a Consultancy Agreement with Arup Australia Pty Ltd (“Arup”).

The post ClearVue signs agreement with ARUP to develop its smart facade concepts appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Climate Change Authority to issue new advice to government on climate policies, citing falling technology costs and rising emissions as reasons to do something.

The post Climate Change Authority prepares harsh assessment of Morrison’s policy failure appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Fewer than 1,000 Siamese crocodiles exist, but can captive crocs survive again in the wild? Paul McInerney, Research Fellow, La Trobe University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Restricted scheme would have far less benefit to UK economy, government data suggests

A comprehensive deposit return scheme (DRS) for plastic bottles, cans and glass could boost the economy by £2bn, government assessments show, as ministers weigh up which type of system to adopt.

Government data highlighted by the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England indicates that a more restricted DRS involving only bottles of 750ml and under would benefit the economy by just £250m.

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Another coal unit trips off in Victoria, with more than 2,100MW of so-called "reliable baseload" out of action.

The post Another coal unit breakdown in Victoria, with five thermal units now offline appeared first on RenewEconomy.