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Scientists show innate ability is not the explanation for men navigating better than women.

Danish utility Orsted reported an 11% dip in its bioenergy and thermal power generation over H1, though any EUA demand decrease is likely to be limited as the company’s move away from fossil fuels continues.

Germany has launched a tender to procure nearly 300,000 offsets as part of its commitment to neutralise the GHG emissions generated from the business trips of federal government officials.

A pair have been spotted breeding at the Bedfordshire site for the first time in 45 years.

More than 1,000 firefighters are battling blazes for a seventh day in the popular tourist area in Portugal. Extremely high temperatures have been blamed for sparking the wildfires

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The world’s largest fish roams less than previously thought, new research has found. Using a ‘biological passport’, results show that whale sharks in the western Indian Ocean and the Arabian Gulf rarely swim more than a few hundred kilometres from their feeding grounds, making local action vital to their conservation

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Spot NZU prices lifted on Thursday to set a fresh record high, the twelfth over the past two months, as available supply remained scarce and some emitters bet on impending clarity on government plans to amend the ETS.

The week’s top environment news stories and green events. If you are not already receiving this roundup, sign up here to get the briefing delivered to your inbox

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Non-forestry firms covered by New Zealand’s emissions trading scheme handed in 6.8 million allowances more in 2017 than the previous year despite only a modest increase in emissions as the phase-out of the scheme's 2-for-1 rule began to take effect.

Flow Power to take about half the output from new Queensland wind farm to deliver cheap renewable electricity to corporate customers in that state.

The investigation into claims against the embattled federal Labor MP Emma Husar has proven to be a major headache for her party colleagues.

Michael Myer says size of grant ‘unheard of’ as Josh Frydenberg refuses to say where idea originated

The environment minister, Josh Frydenberg, would not say whose idea it was to award a $444m government grant to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, on the same day a former member of the foundation’s board described the allocation as “unthinkable”.

Michael Myer, of the Myer family, was a member of the reef foundation’s board from 2001 to 2004 until he became concerned at what he called the growing “corporatist” direction of the organisation.

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On top of that, the $150 average annual household saving the ESB claims is due to the NEG is illusory, and based on heroic demand assumptions.

German start-up set to roll-out solar PV integrated electric vehicle – a "no frills" low-priced EV with 250km range and enough PV to power 30km/day if the sun's shining.

Amid all the talk of taking Tesla private this week, the CEO has given the world a sneaky look at numbers not often seen in public.

The world’s biggest oil exporter has placed a massive bet on Tesla – the company whose entire goal is transitioning the world off of oil.

The NEG, in its current form, proclaims to halt the energy transition in its tracks. It's a nonsense of course, but Australia needs a policy that recognises the future, not one that pretends to be able to stop it.

Jaguar unveils all-electric I-PACE in Australia, with deliveries set for “fourth quarter”, and reports of “interest” from 2,000-plus potential customers.

Urban trees are literally made with the help of human breath – they turn the carbon dioxide we breathe out into the building blocks of plant growth. So your local trees have a piece of you inside them. Cris Brack, Associate Professor, forest measurement & management, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

2011 Tesla Roadster takes on five high performance ICE vehicles in arduous three-day rally near Perth.