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For more than 10 years, Kenya’s great lakes have been flooding, displacing hundreds of thousands of people as rising water levels leave towns and villages almost completely submerged. Flooding is also affecting nature reserves and destroying important habitats for endangered species. Josh Toussaint-Strauss explores why the human and ecological disaster is happening – and why the Kenyan government is so slow to act

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Australia National University has published two more studies attacking the human induced regeneration (HIR) offset methodology and the way in which it has been defended by the Clean Energy Regulator and the government’s carbon credit oversight committee.

Campaigners hail step towards end of practice in French territorial waters that has had ‘devastating’ effect on local fishers

The European parliament has voted to ban “fly shooting” fishing in French territorial waters in the Channel, following reports that the technique, also known as demersal seining, was having a “devastating” effect on local fishers.

Campaigners described the result as a victory for small-scale fishers. Organisations representing coastal fishing communities on both sides of the Channel have warned that industrial trawling methods, including fly-shooting, are decimating their livelihoods and the marine ecosystem.

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The River Wye flows through Herefordshire where bird numbers – and their waste – surged in the year after the supermarket signed a deal with a local processor, Guardian investigation shows

A major deal to supply chicken to Tesco from nearly a decade ago may be linked to the ecological demise of one of the UK’s favourite rivers, according to a Guardian investigation.

As the River Wye flows through mid-Wales to the Severn estuary, it passes through the so-called chicken capital of the UK, where an estimated 20 million birds are farmed in the river’s catchment.

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Queensland to roll out another 12 batteries at regional centres, targeting areas with high levels of rooftop solar.

The post Queensland to add more than a dozen new regional batteries to soak up solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Bowen and Albanese hope to win friends at home and overseas for new climate ambitions, as draft climate legislation leaks.

The post Labor in diplomatic climate flurry, at home and overseas, before parliament sits appeared first on RenewEconomy.

From trade unions to a bishop, activists are uniting to keep the UK government to its North Sea climate commitments

When the business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, tweeted on the eve of the long jubilee weekend that the government was giving the go-ahead to a new oil and gas project in the North Sea, ministers probably hoped the news would slip out without much fuss.

But less than 24 hours later hundreds of protesters, furious that the government was planning to expand fossil fuel infrastructure in the midst of a climate crisis, took to the streets across the UK to voice their objections.

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The potential for agrivoltaics is huge – particularly in a changing climate, where both food security and energy security are at a premium.

The post Photo of the Day: Agrisolar is making Berry nice progress appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Partial production at wind farm host to turbine collapse resumes after a month off line, but cause of the incident yet to be identified.

The post Walkaway wind farm resumes some production after turbine collapse appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The idea that the US government would subsidise the feeding of supersonic jets, rather than people, beggars belief.

The post The madness of cutting down forests to grow food crops for supersonic aircraft biofuels appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Official advice suggests warming your house to 18℃. But it’s perfectly possible to live in an unheated house with personal warming devices and better clothing. Robert Nelson, Honorary Principal Fellow, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Hydro Tasmania says new CEO will lead battery of the nation project in midst of "most critical transformation our industry has ever experienced."

The post Hydro Tasmania locks in new CEO to lead battery of the nation project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Renewables achieved double-digit cost reductions in 2021, and saved tens of billions in fossil fuel costs, but IRENA warns of supply chain and commodities crises.

The post New wind and solar saved $82bn in fossil fuel costs in 2021, but supply pressures loom appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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An orange flame on your stove would be the signal that you were now burning “renewable gas”, the advertorial said, promising this would happen “sooner than you expect”.

Above the article, which ran in the Age last week, was an advert from pipeline and distribution company Australian Gas Networks (AGN) showing a gas flame burning an unfamiliar green with the words “renewable gas”.

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The discoveries included a fungus previously recorded in the Arctic and another in Antarctica.

After two successful funding rounds, a blockchain carbon offsetting platform is expanding its presence in the US with a new base in Florida and a new advisor in the country, and is eyeing further senior hires.

A US agricultural technology company has raised $20 million in Series A funding, which it said will allow it to significantly expand farming and commercial adoption of its seaweed-based digestive aid for methane-spewing cattle.

Three natural gas companies filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Pennsylvania’s RGGI rulemaking, adding to a growing caseload the state faces in its efforts to join the 11-state cap-and-trade programme that is pending resolution from the state Supreme Court.

California regulator ARB divvied out fewer than 100,000 compliance offsets for the third time in four issuance periods as the slow crediting rate this year continues, according to government data published Wednesday.