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Prices in France and Germany and across Europe have again jumped to unprecedented levels thanks to soaring cost of gas and massive nuclear shortfalls.

The post Gas prices and nuclear outages put European grid at breaking point appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AEMO's latest assessment of reliability generated the predictable "blackout" headlines, but the details tell another story.

The post The strangely invisible energy projects that led to all those “blackout” headlines appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Extreme weather conditions in China starts to have impact on solar and battery supply chains, plus all the local news.

The post Solar Insiders Podcast: China drought to hit solar, battery supplies appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Electric vehicles were around long before their fossil fuel rivals. They are also set to outlast them because of advantages their advocates noted as early as a century ago. Timothy Minchin, Professor of History, La Trobe University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australia's emissions jumped again, and scientists are not happy with new oil exploration acreage and Labor minister's description of CO2 as "bubbles in your soda water."

The post “Bubbles in your soda water:” How Labor justifies LNG boom behind emissions jump appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Researchers unveil new battery made from abundant, low-cost materials that could compete with lithium-ion to support the shift to renewable energy.

The post Is an aluminium-sulphur battery the way out of the lithium quagmire? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The deputy Liberal leader has been taken to task over the ‘totally wrong, wholly incorrect’ claim that no one is making electric utes

Once upon a time in the former Morrison government, policies to promote electric cars were going to “end the weekend”, while the vehicles themselves wouldn’t be able to tow your boat or trailer.

Now in opposition and with Scott Morrison consigned to the backbench, the Liberal party’s deputy leader, Sussan Ley, has continued the EV bashing.

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We’ve survived the most wretched season in years. Now everything will be beautiful once more

Well, we did it. Winter is finally dead. And, unlike when a real person dies, we don’t have to pretend there was anything good about it.

Goodbye, winter, a friendless season for losers. I mean this in the rudest possible terms, but particularly this year. Winter is a season for losers and a season for loss. It forces us to become worse versions of ourselves, taking us away from our friends and offering us nothing in return except the opportunity to complete our evening walks on hard mode. Meanwhile, everyone interesting immediately flees for summer in other parts of the world, which draws me into a blood feud with them.

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Kinder Scout, where walkers famously staked their claim to the countryside, grows by over 500 acres.

Push for moratorium on offsets comes as NSW’s scheme found to have no strategy for ensuring protection of environment

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The Greens have called for all environmental offsets schemes across the country to be suspended pending an independent review, after the New South Wales system was found to be riddled with integrity concerns and failing to protect endangered species.

It puts the minor party at odds with the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, who planned to use a speech on Thursday to argue that well-designed environmental markets, including those using offsets, could be a “powerful force for good”. She said she hoped Australia may one day be home to a “green Wall Street” that attracted conservation investment from around the world.

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Mystery and wonder in this year's shortlisted images for Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

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The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania retained a lower court’s ruling to maintain the preliminary injunction against the state’s RGGI-linked cap and trade regulation on Wednesday, denying an appeal from the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to reinstate the supersedeas provision enshrined in state law.

AEMO creates controversy over new ISP scenario that looks at "green gas", despite overwhelming push to electrification.

The post Claims of industry lobbying as new ISP to model “green gas” alternative to solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australian politicians have a history of opting for high-cost, high-emissions desalination projects. The Queensland government is still wary of using the largely untapped resource of recycled water. Margaret Cook, Lecturer in History, University of the Sunshine Coast Andrea Gaynor, Professor of History, The University of Western Australia Lionel Frost, Associate Professor of Economics, Monash University Peter Spearritt, Emeritus Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland Ruth Morgan, Associate Professor of History, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

An aluminium producer and nature-based VER developer are auctioning off several hundred thousand offsets from what they say is the first REDD project in Brazil’s Cerrado region.

The UK government plans to make minor changes to the country’s carbon market ahead of 2023 in a response to a wide-ranging consultation, the UK ETS authority said on Wednesday in changes that include adding Swiss-bound flights.

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin's (R) administration on Wednesday outlined its plan to rescind the state's RGGI-linked carbon market at the end of 2023, despite opponents maintaining that only the General Assembly has the authority to take this step.

A fund set up as an alternative to carbon offsetting has in its first year mostly opted to support projects that closely measure their tonne-for-tonne emissions impact, while reaffirming that the financing is tied to overall climate impact rather than measured CO2 results.

Extreme heat has caused trees to shed their leaves early and summer crops to give up. It’s nature’s equivalent of grabbing whatever you can when leaving a burning building

The first cool mornings, the sweet rot of fallen apples, the sight of seed heads and spent foliage – these are all signs that autumn is here. But what happens when it starts coming earlier? When the floor is littered with burnt leaves, when the summer crops give up early and the flowers fade before all the pollinators get their fill? What has happened is a “false” autumn brought forth by extreme heat and uncertain weather patterns.

The leaves on the ground of your local park and pavements are not the normal autumn leaves, where a deciduous tree has reclaimed as many valuable chemicals as possible from the leaf, so that the colours beneath are exposed, before sending it to ground. The extraction of pigments in a leaf is a slow process that takes trees several weeks, but the blast of extreme heat stole this from the plants and instead they had to slough off resources as they struggled to stay hydrated. These are the leaves we see right now: brown, curled and fried by the sun.

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