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An organic orchard turns itself into a farm co-op; a Swiss engineer makes boutique olive oil; the Australian Boys Choir sings in the outback; and we go paddling the Darling River.

Green peer Jenny Jones says the police’s actions at a fracking protest show they are helping impose government policy and defending corporate interests

When the police forcibly remove a 79-year-old woman for serving refreshments to fracking protesters, you know they have taken sides (Report, 11 October). Having wasted their time and our money dragging pensioners around, the Lancashire constabulary has asked the Home Office for an extra £3.1m to cover the cost of drafting in police from Somerset and Wales. It is time for the policing operation at New Preston Road to be scaled back, or called off altogether. The police are helping to impose a government decision to frack, which is opposed by local residents at every level of local government. The police should go back to patrolling the streets and arresting criminals, instead of defending corporate interests by harassing the protesters.
Jenny Jones
Green party, House of Lords

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A wild boar, clown fish and two rhinoceros calves are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world

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A year in school adds nearly a year to your life, study in Edinburgh shows.

A US space agency satellite provides new insights on how CO2 is moved through Earth's atmosphere.

Only two chicks survived in a colony of 36,000 in a "catastrophic" breeding season in east Antarctica.

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The Department of the Environment and Energy has drafted a cost recovery implementation statement (CRIS) that sets out how proposed cost recovery charges (fees and levies) will be implemented for regulating emissions standards for NRSIEE.

The Australian Petroleum Statistics provide statistics on petroleum production, refinery inputs and outputs, sales and stocks of petroleum products, and prices.

Fitted with a body camera, a sewer engineer tries to remove a blockage.

While Tony Abbott's London climate speech has been widely criticised, research suggests his views have long had a sympathetic ear in Australia's coal heartland. Vanessa Bowden, Associate Lecture in Social Enquiry, University of Newcastle Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

As the Clean Energy Target fades away, perhaps a Dispatchable Reliable Energy Target will be innocuous enough to pass the Liberal party room and the Senate. Alan Pears, Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The uptake of solar – by consumers and in large-scale solar farms – could be far quicker than anyone is currently contemplating. If this is managed well, with battery and other forms of storage, there will be little need for many of the remaining coal generators.

TAI report shows 64% of all party supporters in favour of policies to increase EV uptake – so what aren't governments doing?

The famous World Solar Challenge was won for the seventh time by the Netherlands’ Nuon Solar team.

Australia Institute wants free access to bus lanes after electric cars accounted for just 0.1% of new car sales in 2015

Tax breaks and free access to bus lanes should be used to help reverse Australia’s poor uptake of electric vehicles, a new report has said.

Australians remain deeply reluctant to buy electric cars, which accounted for just 0.1% of new car sales in 2015. Australia is increasingly falling behind other countries, particularly in Europe, where sales of electric cars represented 1.2% of new European Union car sales in the same year.

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The UK Government has announced an ambitious new Clean Growth Strategy to drastically cut carbon emissions and combat climate change.