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Taylor gets extra ministerial responsibilities, and former IPA policy director Tim Wilson appointed assistant minister for energy and emissions reduction.

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A lack of butchers has resulted in the supply chain between farm and supermarket becoming blocked.

National Trust says people are turning into ‘leaf peepers’ with more noticing trees than at start of pandemic

The nights are drawing in and there is a chill in the air but research commissioned by a conservation charity suggests British people are increasingly finding solace at what can be a tricky time of year in the joy of autumn colour.

About a third of people questioned said enjoying the burst of gold, red, purples russet and orange that accompanies autumn was their favourite thing about the season, ahead of looking forward to Bonfire Night, the television schedule or even Christmas.

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Gerard Reid in Europe’s gas crisis, and NSW plans to replace coal with renewables.

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Taylor to reward carbon capture projects with potentially lucrative offset credits, channelling more subsidies to the controversial technology.

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Transgrid may be forced to buy a pair of ageing, dirty diesel generators - rather than investing in a world-leading renewable micro-grid - due to Australia's regulatory regime.

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Bango wind farm now has 10 operating turbines, as it continues a phased commissioning process.

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Aboriginal people view so-called wilderness as sick, neglected land. This runs counter to the view of wilderness as pristine and healthy, which underpins non-Indigenous conservation efforts. Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Associate Professor in Biogeography, The University of Melbourne Lisa Palmer, Associate Professor, School of Geography, The University of Melbourne Rebecca Hamilton, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Wolfram Dressler, Senior Fellow, Development Geography, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Renewable energy developer MPower secures grid connection for first of planned 20 solar farms.

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Australia has approved a method that allows carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects to generate offset credits, the world’s first nation to do so, in a move the government said will allow Australia to increase its LNG production.

Genex chooses Tesla Megapack batteries for its 100MWh Bouldercombe project in Queensland.

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Gold Fields Australia and EDL won the Golden Gecko award for environmental excellence for their Agnew Hybrid Renewable project in Leinster, Western Australia.

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The former head of environmental products at Gazprom’s trading arm has landed at UK oil major BP, Carbon Pulse has learned.

American energy company Phillips 66 on Thursday announced it intends to reduce the carbon intensity of its oil and gas operations and energy products by 2030.

The number of California-registered Compliance Instrument Tracking System Service (CITSS) accounts under the linked WCI cap-and-trade programme grew to a record during the third quarter, with new entrants split evenly between general market accounts and covered entities, according to data published by state regulator ARB on Thursday.

The Irish agriculture minister has said that CO2 stored in forests planted on farmland belongs to the government, but agriculture groups maintain they have the right to sell the sequestered carbon on the voluntary emissions reduction (VER) market.

The oceans around New Zealand are warming faster in winter than in summer. During the winter of 2021, most coastal areas were warmer than usual, and this is likely to bring more storms during summer. João Marcos Azevedo Correia de Souza, MetOcean Solutions Science Manager of the Research and Development Team. Moana Project Science Lead, MetService — Te Ratonga Tirorangi Amandine Schaeffer, UNSW Jonathan Gardner, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Robert Smith, University of Otago Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.