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Scientists are investigating why around 70 deep water whales have washed up on Scottish and Irish beaches since the beginning of August.

A group of northeast US states could outline a proposal to regulate carbon emissions from the transportation sector later this year, potentially putting them on the path to have a fully-functional programme by 2021, experts said.

New eco-designs for products such as TVs and fridges are also crucial to Europe meeting its climate targets, say experts

New energy efficient eco-designs for 15 products including fridges, TVs and dishwashers have been delayed, EU diplomats say, even though experts consider them “crucial” to meeting Europe’s Paris climate pledge. The delays are also expected to mean consumers will miss out on lower energy bills.

The design revamps would have saved 62m tonnes of CO2 emissions – as much as Sweden’s annual primary energy consumption – but now look set to be dealt with by the next commission, in which far right parties may be more influential.

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Aviation needs to impose a carbon price as high as $200/tonne to incentivise a switch to cleaner fuels and reach zero emissions without offsetting by 2060 in order to align with the Paris Agreement, an expert group told industry leaders on Tuesday.

Liquefaction has caused buildings to collapse in the city of Palu after last Friday's earthquake. This occurs when the earth takes on the characteristics of a liquid after an earthquake. The death toll from the quake and tsunami has passed 1,200

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‘Last Straw’ installation aims to raise awareness of plastic waste as the firm bans single-use straws from UK and Irish stores

Ikea today symbolically unveiled its last single-use plastic straw in a display at London’s Design Museum, after it stopped serving or selling the items in any of its UK and Ireland stores, restaurants and bistros this week.

The so-called Last Straw installation will be on show to the public until Saturday and aims to inspire consumers to collectively take small steps that will have a positive environmental impact.

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While politicians weigh up climate change, scientists say we urgently need to act. Can we take years or decades to move away from fossil fuels or should we need move immediately to renewable energy?

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to a woman for only the third time since the award began.

Korea’s South Chungcheong province on Tuesday became the first Asian jurisdiction to join the UK- and Canadian-led Powering Past Coal Alliance, a move that will see closing dates for 14 coal plants brought forward by up to five years.

In this historically precarious moment, we need something more fundamental than climate strategies built on shame and castigation

There was a barely stifled schadenfreudian glee echoing across the liberal press through this burning hot summer. Environmentalists could scarcely disguise their we-told-you-so smirks as one suffocating heatwave after another rolled over the globe, wildfires savaged landscapes from Siberia to California and broken temperature records kept piling up.

But yearning for catastrophe is an ugly desire, and it is exactly the wrong way to think about global warming. Disasters always hit marginalised people first and worst, and as tempting as it might be to hope the calamities of 2018 bring new kinds of change, that desire only betrays how badly environmentalism needs to be overhauled.

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Expectations that Hyundai Ioniq could be a watershed moment for electric vehicles in Australia confirmed when pricing details accidentally released.

The post Hyundai lets slip pricing for new Ioniq electric vehicle models appeared first on RenewEconomy.

PRESS RELEASE   MELBOURNE (2 October 2018) – Trina Solar, the global leader in total solar energy solutions, has been shifting production towards the manufacture of PERC silicon solar cells, a technology first invented and later developed by scientists at the University of New South Wales. Australia, particularly the University of NSW and Australia National...

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PRESS RELEASE MELBOURNE (2 October 2018) – Trina Solar, the global leader in total solar energy solutions, is moving into the Australian household sector with the launch tomorrow of Trinahome. Tomorrow’s launch of Trinahome coincides with the All Energy 2018 trade show at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (3-4 October). Trina Solar is a...

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Tesla shares surge after Musk reaches settlement with regulator that allows him to stay as CEO, but cede sovereignty over his Twitter activity.

The post Deal with SEC allows Musk to resume plotting end of fossil fuel era appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Origin Energy says the cost of wind and solar farms has fallen so far it is now cheaper than the marginal cost of coal generation, and the company is moving on from the concept of “24/7 base-load”.

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Redflow has recruited experienced battery industry executive Ben Shepherd to accelerate sales of its unique zinc-bromine flow batteries.

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Group of 18 councils in NSW sign up to take the output from Moree solar farm to slash their electricity bills by around one third.

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Partnership targets residential sector with combined two decades-plus experience as pioneers in the 'new energy technologies' space.

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Origin’s Greg Jarvis on why renewables are cheaper than coal, why baseload is thing of the past, and why its looking at storage instead.

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Magnis is excited to announce that its partner Charge CCCV (C4V) has completed production of a working prototype of a Solid State Battery which was demonstrated at the 2018 NYBEST Conference in New York by C4V.

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