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The day-to-day operation of the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme is managed by four co-regulatory arrangements, Australian and New Zealand Recycling Platform (ANZRP), Ecycle Solutions (Ecycle), Electronics Product Stewardship...

The day-to-day operation of the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme is managed by four co-regulatory arrangements, Australian and New Zealand Recycling Platform (ANZRP), Ecycle Solutions (Ecycle), Electronics Product Stewardship...

Bodnant Garden, Gwynedd: Rhododendrons and azaleas flash white, pink, red, orange and blue as the oaks awaken from a long winter dream

These oak leaves open like bloody beef. Not the “rich brown-umber hue the oaks unfold/ When Spring’s young sunshine bathes their trunks in gold” that John Clare described in his poem Wood Pictures in Spring. These are the emerging leaves of a Quercus robur “Atropurpurea” (they will mature to a deep red-purple), a form of English or common oak, growing in a Welsh wood on the ravine of a stream flowing into the Vale of Conwy.

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AEMO says reserve mechanism that ensured lights stayed on last summer cost just $6 per customer, and praises role of newly deployed technologies such as batteries and demand response.

Work begins on Risen Energy's 121MW Yarranlea Solar Farm, west of Toowoomba, which is going ahead without a PPA.

Exclusive: Study finds 12,000 items worth $4m, including ivory, live orangutans and a huge number of reptiles and birds for the pet trade

The online sale of endangered and threatened wildlife is rife across Europe, a new investigation has revealed, ranging from live cheetahs, orangutans and bears to ivory, polar bear skins and many live reptiles and birds.

Researchers from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (Ifaw) spent six weeks tracking adverts on 100 online marketplaces in four countries, the UK, Germany, France and Russia. They found more than 5,000 adverts offering to sell almost 12,000 items, worth $4m (£3m) in total. All the specimens were species in which trade is restricted or banned by the global Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species.

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Sweden's Vattenfall connects 500 BMW i3 batteries to 228MW wind farm in South Wales, in "UK’s largest" co-located onshore wind and battery project.

US report demonstrates how renewable and distributed energy resources can provide the same grid services as gas generators – and avoid $1 trillion of new plant costs.

Debate over whether we can run electric grids on 100% renewables in coming decades misses a key point: many countries and regions are already there.

The Department is working to ensure that microbeads in personal care and cosmetic products are phased out by July 2018 and has published assessments on the sale of microbead-containing products in Australia and industry progress toward the phase...

The Department is working to ensure that microbeads in personal care and cosmetic products are phased out by July 2018 and has published assessments on the sale of microbead-containing products in Australia and industry progress toward the phase...

The Department is working to ensure that microbeads in personal care and cosmetic products are phased out by July 2018 and has published assessments on the sale of microbead-containing products in Australia and industry progress toward the phase...

The Department is working to ensure that microbeads in personal care and cosmetic products are phased out by July 2018 and has published assessments on the sale of microbead-containing products in Australia and industry progress toward the phase...

Many fruits, nuts and other crops rely on bees to pollinate their flowers at just the right time of year. Many farmers rent bees to get the job done at pollination time. Manu Saunders, Research fellow, University of New England Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Gupta says GFG Alliance could build 10GW of large scale in Australia, as well as make EVs, and use car batteries for household storage.

"Unsustainable" levels of extraction plus climate change could see water supply deficits across England by 2050.

Making sense of terms like vog, laze and pahoehoe with the help of volcanologist Evgenia Ilyinskaya.

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The Canadian Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) released an expanded assessment on Tuesday to support its recent forecast of how a federal carbon levy will impact the country’s GDP, though the analysis appeared somewhat extreme and binary in nature and did not account for a number of realities across Canada's existing pricing patchwork.

The largest organised labour group in Washington came up short of formally backing the state’s carbon tax ballot initiative, signalling a potential gap in support ahead of the July filing deadline.