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New community ownership models can restore integrity to the voluntary carbon market, says new project developer
Super battery: Biggest machine to be connected to Australian grid starts to take shape
Waratah Super Battery will involve the biggest single connection to Australia's main grid, and is being built on top of an old coal stockpile next to a shuttered coal plant.
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Ark Energy breaks ground on Queensland green hydrogen hub powered by solar
Ark breaks ground on the first phase of its renewable hydrogen hub in Townsville, which will feature a 1MW electrolyser powered by solar.
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Drones used for first time to take ‘x-ray’ assessments of health of solar farms
Drone-based technique can analyse every single panel on a solar farm, rooting out faulty or damaged modules which look fine on the surface.
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Researchers to build hive of data from bee projects to drive biodiversity conservation efforts
Action to protect against climate crisis ‘woefully inadequate’, UN warns
International funding to shield people from heatwaves, floods and droughts only 5-10% of what is needed, report finds
The world is “woefully” underprepared for the escalating impacts of the climate crisis that is already hitting billions of people across the globe, a stark UN report has warned.
International funding to protect communities against heatwaves, floods and droughts is just 5-10% of what is needed today and actually fell in recent years, just as extreme weather hit even harder.
Continue reading...Could quantum mechanics make energy technology faster, better and more efficient?
Advances in quantum mechanics could lead to breakthroughs in solar, battery and grid management technology.
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China flags more lenient carbon permit borrowing rules for ETS participants
Asia’s agricultural emissions could be cut by 840 Mt by 2030 with simple steps -report
Carbon Finance Project Manager, Nexus for Development – Phnom Penh
A duck’s eye view: how farmyard animals see life … and death – in pictures
On one small Argentine farm, Alessandra Sanguinetti captured the lives of the animals – from birth to their sometimes grizzly demise. Warning: graphic content
Continue reading...Australia Market Roundup: Former Pacific leaders lash Australia’s performance at L&D fund talks, Federal Court orders Santos to halt pipeline work at Barossa
“The future doesn’t involve you,” and other things the AER won’t tell dying gas networks
Regulator kicks the gas can down the road as it decides to not make any changes to the price mechanisms for gas networks facing oblivion in the switch to electric.
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Icelandic surfers fear port development will ruin ‘perfect point break’
Volcanoes, northern lights and midnight sun are all on offer at this haven, which locals want to preserve
“Look at this wave,” says Mathis Blache, pointing to the sea from the shore’s black rocks as a swell rolls in. “It’s just perfect.” Despite air and water temperatures in the single digits, the 27-year-old student and surfer points out two other surfers – and a couple of seals – delighting in the conditions at Þorlákshöfn in south-west Iceland.
This spot, where surfers can enjoy either the midnight sun or the northern lights depending on the time of year, has in recent years become the heart of Iceland’s rapidly growing surfing community.
Continue reading...Environment Agency has nearly halved water-use inspections in last five years
Exclusive: Drop in compliance visits in England described as ‘incredibly detrimental to water resources’
The Environment Agency has slashed its water-use inspections by almost a half over the past five years, it can be revealed.
Environment Agency (EA) officers visited people and businesses with licences to abstract, or take, water from rivers and aquifers 4,539 times in 2018-19, but this dropped to 2,303 inspections in 2022-23, according to data obtained by the Guardian and Watershed Investigations.
Continue reading...Traditional owner wins injunction against Santos’ giant Barossa gas project
A Tiwi traditional owner has won an injunction to prevent Santos from commencing construction work for a pipeline for its controversial Barossa offshore gas project.
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SwitchedOn Podcast: Bright energy future
Katherine McConnell explains how one company has financed and installed over 100,000 household solar installations, and now provides a one-stop-shop for electrification.
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Global heating is accelerating, warns scientist who sounded climate alarm in the 80s
Study delivers dire warning although rate of increase is debated by some scientists amid a record-breaking year of heat
Global heating is accelerating faster than is currently understood and will result in a key temperature threshold being breached as soon as this decade, according to research led by James Hansen, the US scientist who first alerted the world to the greenhouse effect.
The Earth’s climate is more sensitive to human-caused changes than scientists have realized until now, meaning that a “dangerous” burst of heating will be unleashed that will push the world to be 1.5C hotter than it was, on average, in pre-industrial times within the 2020s and 2C hotter by 2050, the paper published on Thursday predicts.
Continue reading...LONGi and Solar Training Centre collaborate to uplift the Australian Solar Industry
LONGI and Solar Training Centre ink a landmark MOU, marking a significant leap forward in bolstering the Australian solar installer market.
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The ex-PM who thinks he’s an expert on climate change | Fiona Katauskas
It’s good to see some things never change
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