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Plant in China releases water with higher amounts of tritium, scientist says, calling into question the reason for seafood ban imposed on Japan

As China bans all seafood from Japan after the discharge of 1m tonnes of radioactive water from the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, Beijing has been accused of hypocrisy and of using the incident to whip up anti-Japanese sentiment.

Scientists have pointed out that China’s own nuclear power plants release wastewater with higher levels of tritium than that found in Fukushima’s discharge, and that the levels are all within the boundaries of levels not considered to be harmful to human health.

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Australia’s chief scientific body has partnered with RFC Ambrian to found a new company they say can use 30% less electricity to generate clean hydrogen, reducing costs.

WA government says bp is a step closer to making a final investment decision on plans to turn its former oil refinery into a green hydrogen hub.

The post Kwinana green hydrogen hub edges closer at site of former oil refinery appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Big chunk of federal microgrid funds will be dedicated to the “unique challenges” facing Indigenous communities that rely on costly and polluting diesel.

The post First Nations the focus as new microgrid funding seeks to ditch diesel appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Former Treasury chief says every measure of Australia’s environment is ‘going in the wrong direction’

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Australia’s natural environment is in crisis and protecting it must become the top priority in government policy and legislation if it is to have a chance, a former Treasury chief says.

Dr Ken Henry, who led federal Treasury for a decade until 2011 and is now chair of the Australian Climate and Biodiversity Foundation, said governments continued to not give enough attention to the causes of environmental destruction and how policy and management could be changed to turn things around.

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First of 21 shiploads of turbine parts for the massive Golden Plains wind farm in Victoria have been unloaded at Geelong Port, ready for delivery.

The post Huge wind turbine parts arrive at port for delivery to Golden Plains appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Ideology is trumping honest debate in the push for nuclear SMR. Australia's leading business daily is a case in point.

The post AFR’s sloppy journalism makes a nonsense of its case for nuclear SMRs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

We need all the storage we can get on our grid – of all types and sizes. But community batteries are the ‘Swiss army knife’ of modern power systems.

The post Home, neighbourhood, grid-scale batteries: What’s the difference and why does it matter? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

NSW Labor are laying the groundwork to make the worst decision possible on Eraring. How did it get so bad, so quickly?

The post Labor’s taxpayer-funded Coalkeeper 2.0 is an avoidable disaster for the climate appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Experts advocated compatibility and alignment across multiple approaches in designing New York’s economy-wide cap-and-invest regulation related to transportation and building fuels, but cautioned against linking between sectors in a webinar on Thursday.

The Global Environmental Facility confirmed a global fund to exponentially scale action on biodiversity across 186 countries, but only two provided funds.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices climbed significantly following the Wednesday publication of an all-time high clear at the Q3 auction, while Washington Carbon Allowances (WCAs) slid going into their second auction in less than a month.

The Wisbech farm doubles production of watermelons, despite the "challenging" British weather.

New CSIRO spin off says its ground-breaking electrolyser tech requires 30 per cent less electricity to make green hydrogen than competing technologies.

The post CSIRO spins out new hydrogen tech that uses 30 pct less wind and solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Instead of a Carbon Central Bank approach, a functioning, future-oriented carbon market can address the challenges of liquidity constraints and residual emissions as the EU ETS cap approaches zero, writes Marcus Ferdinand of Veyt.

A dolphin has also died at the Marineland theme park, which faces accusations of animal cruelty

Fourteen whales and a dolphin have died since 2019 at a popular Canadian aquarium and theme park, according to a new exposé by the Canadian Press.

Of the marine animals that have died, 13 were belugas and one was Kiska – the world’s loneliest orca, who died of a bacterial infection after four decades in captivity, the last 12 of which were in isolation.

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Using bees as biomonitors can be a more sensitive and effective way of detecting contaminants than traditional sampling methods, new research shows. Mark Patrick Taylor, Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria; Honorary Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University Kara Fry, Adjunct Fellow, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University Max M Gillings, PhD Candidate, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Many credits in the voluntary market going unused, with study finding some offsetting could make global heating worse

Carbon credit speculators could lose billions as scientific evidence shows many offsets they have bought have no environmental worth and have become stranded assets.

Amid growing evidence that huge numbers of carbon credits do nothing to mitigate global heating and can sometimes be linked to alleged human rights concerns, there is a growing pile of carbon credits equivalent to the annual emissions of Japan, the world’s fifth largest polluter, that are unused in the unregulated voluntary market, according to market analysis.

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The best of this week’s wildlife photographs, including turtle hatchlings, mating butterflies and trafficked toucan

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