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New Zealand’s Climate Change Commission launched a consultation on Monday to assess the country’s emissions budgets, saying key circumstances had changed that could mean the target should be bolstered.

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An Indian renewable energy company has signed an agreement with a major farmers’ cooperative for the production of ammonia through renewable sources and is ready to provide credits to be generated in the international market.

Voluntary nature credit suppliers are exploring strategies to spur companies' appetite for units, including streamlining purchases and organising awareness-raising events, as players in the carbon space do not yet have the confidence to foray into the market.

The Clean Energy Regulator (CER) is taking a trading company and its former director to the Federal Court for allowing unauthorised persons access to its emissions registry unit (ANREU) account, it announced Monday.

Dr Jarra Hicks discussed how community focused energy projects are more likely to win hearts and minds for the energy transition.

The post SwitchedOn Podcast: Winning hearts and minds with community energy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia's biggest battery, designed to be a giant "shock absorber" for the grid, gets technical green light to ensure it is connected on schedule.

The post Giant “super battery” that will help replace Australia’s biggest coal generator gets technical green light appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Footage captures flooding near the rural township of Charleville following a weekend of heavy rain in parts of southern Queensland and northern New South Wales. Communities across the region have been impacted by flooding, with some isolated by road closures.

According to the Bureau of Meteorology, the Warrego River gauge near Bakers Bend, in south-west Queensland, recorded a peak of 10.16m on Monday morning

• Australia news live: major flooding in south-west Queensland

• It’s not just the total rainfall – why is eastern Australia experiencing such sudden, devastating downpours?

• Weather tracker: flood warnings after heavy rain in south-eastern Australia

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Like everything else associated with the Coalition’s nuclear policy, the plan to win over communities in coal regions has hit a snag.

The post Coalition “in a panic” about response to confused and unpopular nuclear power plan appeared first on RenewEconomy.

When the soil ‘ceiling’ collapses, you end up with a hole exposing a cavity previously hidden underground. Francois Guillard, Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Western Australia hosts the world's biggest standalone grid and features the biggest solar duck, thanks to growth of rooftop PV. Batteries to the rescue, then, as thermal plants go quack.

The post In the belly of the solar duck: First big battery responds as rooftop PV changes shape of grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Biomimicry is already used in aviation but is yet to find a place in wind turbines, until this research showed how it might work.

The post Winglets inspired by Andean condor could improve wind turbine efficiency by 10 pct appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The New Zealand government's independent review of the country's methane science and targets has been criticised by the Green Party, pointing out it is duplicating work already being carried out by the Climate Change Commission (CCC). 

Forecasters predict heavy cloud cover in some places, but better viewing conditions elsewhere.

Russia’s government has declared flooding in the Orenburg region a federal emergency, state media has reported.

The floods, caused by rising water levels in the Ural River, forced more than 4,000 people, including 885 children, to evacuate, the regional government said. The state news agency Tass said a further 2,000 homes were flooded, bringing the total to nearly 6,300 in the region

• Russia declares federal emergency over floods after dam bursts

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Andrew Forrest’s iron ore and energy giant Fortescue Metals has officially opened its 2GW hydrogen electrolyser factory in Gladstone, Queensland, using in-house technology that it says heralds a massive new manufacturing industry for Australia. Fortescue says the factory, located in the heart of Queensland coal and LNG export country, is a game-changer because it will […]

The post “Massive new industry:”Fortescue opens 2GW factory to build its own hydrogen electrolysers appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Companies should quickly establish and deploy nature positive aligned strategies, according to a global advisory firm and an NGO that on Monday released a step-by-step guide for doing so, in order to contribute to global conservation targets.

When I set up my honeybee hive, I had no idea I might be harming wild bee species. Now I’ve found better ways to encourage biodiversity

I took up urban beekeeping more than a decade ago with the best intentions. I wanted to help to save bees from the many threats they faced in the countryside – the modern farming practices that douse crops in toxic pesticides and rob bees of wildflower meadows. My small back garden filled with bee-friendly flowers seemed like a paradise in comparison.

But what I didn’t know was that by keeping bees I would only be helping one species of bee – the domesticated honeybee, which doesn’t really need saving – and possibly harming others.

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The last time Brood XIX and Brood XII emerged from underground at the same time, Thomas Jefferson was president

They look a little like cockroaches and have bulging orange eyes, and trillions of them are about to erupt from the earth in much of the midwestern and eastern United States. The emergence of two groups of cicadas will assemble a chorus of the insects not seen in several hundred years, experts say.

The simultaneous appearance of the two cicada broods – known as Brood XIX and Brood XII – is a rare event, not having occurred since 1803, a year when Thomas Jefferson was US president. “It’s really exciting. I’ve been looking forward to this for many years,” said Catherine Dana, an entomologist who specializes in cicadas at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “For the public, it’s going to be a really special experience.”

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People in the UK can also see the solar eclipse happening in the US next week