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Europe is sending up a front-line weather satellite containing components made over a decade ago.

Plans for a road through wildlife-rich areas break EU laws and send a worrying message ahead of Brexit, say MEPs

Government plans to build an Oxford-Cambridge motorway over some of the UK’s most biodiverse nature reserves break EU laws and should be put on hold, according to a cross-party group of MEPs.

Up to a million homes could be built in the planned conurbation link-up which would carve across some of the UK’s richest floodplain habitats such as the Otmoor Basin and Bernwood forest.

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Renewable capacity has tripled in past five years, even faster growth than the ‘dash for gas’ of the 1990s

The capacity of renewable energy has overtaken that of fossil fuels in the UK for the first time, in a milestone that experts said would have been unthinkable a few years ago.

In the past five years, the amount of renewable capacity has tripled while fossil fuels’ has fallen by one-third, as power stations reached the end of their life or became uneconomic.

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Three Mongolian carbon offset projects have been issued credits under Japan’s Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), nearly doubling the amount of credits generated so far, although the Japanese government retained the majority of the offsets.

The ozone layer is finally healing from damage humans have caused, according to the United Nations.

Tesla and Genex push for rule changes that would allow battery and pumped hydro storage to be properly paired with wind and solar farms.

The post Why battery storage in Australia is unable to back up wind and solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

While industry bodies fight over who can claim that their mānuka honey is authentic, Māori interests are often left out of the debate. Jessica C Lai, Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law, Victoria University of Wellington Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Delta Electricity wins state approval to build a 55MW solar farm adjoining its ageing Vales Point coal power station on Lake Macquarie in NSW.

The post NSW Vales Point coal plant to add 55MW solar farm appeared first on RenewEconomy.

New study shows that solar plants can provide flexibility for grid operator that reduces use of thermal generators and battery storage, and delivers even lower emissions.

The post Look, no batteries! How “flexible” solar can help the grid, without storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The myth that coal power equates to grid reliability is not unique to Australia. Here's what happened when an old clunker was removed from the grid in northern Illinois.

The post Soot to solar: Unmasking the coal plant reliability myth appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Bullying and harassment helpline could help people working in the sciences.

Hollywood director Ron Howard talked to the BBC about creating a realistic depiction of the first human colonies on Mars.

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A new study says that big hydro electricity projects in Europe and the US have been disastrous for the environment.

Current EU carbon prices around €16-17 per tonne are "acceptable" to Poland, the country’s energy minister said this weekend after urging for the European Commission over the past two months to intervene and cool the market.

The 33-year-old was bitten in Cid Harbour in the same waters where two tourists were mauled in September

A man who was attacked by a shark in Cid Harbour in the Whitsundays has died in hospital.

The 33-year-old Victorian man had been on a charter boat with friends on Monday and had gone paddle boarding and then swimming, police said, before he was bitten about 5.30pm.

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Quebec saw higher fuel emissions in the final two years of its cap-and-trade programme's second compliance period to cause a shortage of available allowance supply, making it a net buyer in the Western Climate Initiative (WCI), data shows.

Upper layer above northern hemisphere should be completely repaired in 2030s

The ozone layer is showing signs of continuing recovery from man-made damage and is likely to heal fully by 2060, new evidence shows.

The measures taken to repair the damage will also have an important beneficial effect on climate change, as some of the gases that caused the ozone layer to thin and in places disappear also contribute to warming the atmosphere. Phasing them out could avoid as much as 0.5C (0.9F) of warming this century.

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More and more people are adopting plant-based diets in Australia and other western nations. But also seemingly on the rise is resentment towards vegans and vegetarians. Tani Khara, PhD student in Sustainability, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The European Commission is urging EU states to file a difference to the rulebook on the UN’s CORSIA, a Commission official said Monday, a move that casts further doubt on the future of the aviation offsetting scheme.