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Stanwell profits surge as CS Energy deals with Callide C failure, in a volatile year for Queensland's state owned coal plants.

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5MS will encourage investment in battery storage, but it will also bring create risks for renewable generators.

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After the jeers of Greta Thunberg, minsters meet in Italy for the last UN talks before a major climate summit.

Stage one of the new Project EnergyConnect transmission link gets NSW planning approval, set to underpin the South-west REZ.

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Oil and gas producers could reduce emissions at low cost or even at a profit by staunching leaks, says thinktank

Sharp cuts in methane from leaking gas drilling platforms and production sites could play a major role in the greenhouse gas emissions reductions necessary to fulfil the Paris climate agreement, and should be a key aim for the Cop26 UN climate talks, new research suggests.

Cutting global emissions of methane by 40% by 2030 is achievable, with most cuts possible at low cost or even at a profit for companies such as oil and gas producers. It would make up for much of the shortfall in emissions reductions plans from national governments, according to the Energy Transitions Commission thinktank.

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American businesses are being warned of looming export carbon costs ahead of Thursday’s infrastructure bill vote, which could leave the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package and its CO2 price component in limbo amid Congressional negotiations. 

The expected growth of solar capacity needs long-term solutions. Right now, grid operators have to resort to curtailment as the last resort.

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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Wednesday outlined a new climate programme to benefit the agriculture and forestry sectors, and is requesting public input on how the voluntary carbon market (VCM) can fit in to the initiative.

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A green group argued Wednesday that the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) must either reject Dominion’s rate request to recover nearly $168 million in RGGI obligations for failing to perform least-cost analysis or require future examination of additional compliance options.

US biofuel credit (RIN) prices jumped on Wednesday to reverse weeks of losses, coming as corn-state legislators warned the EPA against possibly lowering Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) blending quotas.

The federal government has proposed changes to threatened species protection which would lead to weaker legal protections. Conservationists are alarmed, but in reality, it’s no great loss. Stephen Garnett, Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

From grieving pet owners to TV shows and major museums, demand for taxidermists remains strong. And birds are a mainstay

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For Lauren Hundloe, bringing dead birds “back to life” is all in a day’s work.

The former public servant turned taxidermist used to stuff animals of all sizes, from mice to elk and everything in between. Now she deals almost exclusively with birds in her Brisbane studio.

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The ivory-billed woodpecker is among the 23 species listed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Judge blocks Teal Cedar Products’ extension request and says police conduct on Vancouver Island has put court at risk

A provincial court in Canada has refused to extend an injunction against protesters demonstrating against old-growth logging, ruling that police conduct has been so troubling that to extend the order would place the court’s own reputation at risk.

Related: Rescue of trapped Ontario miners involved gruelling climb to surface

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French experts say the mountain has lost an average of 13 centimetres in height every year since 2001

French experts say they have measured Mont Blanc, the tallest mountain in western Europe, at almost a metre lower than its previous official height.

Geographical experts said that after an expedition in mid-September the mighty mountain in the heart of the French Alps was 4,807.81 metres (15,773.65ft) high, lower than their last published estimate of 4,808.72 metres (15,776.64ft ) in 2017.

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European carbon prices could be set for further downside after setting a new record this week, as uncertainty over the EU’s 'Fit for 55' package grows amid the start of political negotiations and as lawmakers amplify calls for a limit on speculation in the market, according to an analyst.

A group of Spanish and Romanian MEPs are proposing to put forward next month a resolution in European Parliament that calls for restrictions on speculation in the EU carbon market as a way of calming soaring EU energy costs, while Czechia's Prime Minister is reportedly urging for a cap on EUA prices.

Factors behind disappearances include too much development, water pollution, logging and competition from invasive species

The ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 more birds, fish and other species are expected to be declared extinct by the US Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday.

It’s a rare move for wildlife officials to give up hope on a plant or animal, but government scientists have exhausted efforts to find these 23 species and warned that the climate crisis, on top of other pressures, could make such disappearances more common.

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