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The three-metre whale was found in Egypt and has been named after Anubis, the ancient god of death.

NSW gets 34GW of rproject proposals for its New England renewable energy zone, one of five designed to build the capacity to replace coal.

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Officials close eight beaches as residents complain of cloudy, green water that emits a foul smell

Spanish officials have banned the use of fertilisers near one of Europe’s largest saltwater lagoons after five tons of dead fish washed up on its shores.

The alarm bells began to sound in the south-eastern region of Murcia last week as scores of small fish and shrimp began turning up along the beaches of the coastal lagoon known as Mar Menor.

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Longer breaks could mitigate some effects of extreme weather due to the climate crisis

I will confess that my sleepy heart sang when I read the news that the National Trust would be introducing siestas for its staff. My people, I thought. A French friend of mine notes that Britain is one of the only countries where it is acceptable to withdraw socially for “a lie down” simply because you’re tired of company, but the working day, in its punishing Protestantism, is a different matter. Part of my dislike of offices, aside from them being the enemy of creativity for anyone who needs peace in which to work, is that there are never enough places to nap.

Naturally, I’ll be met with accusations of laziness for even saying this. We are in the middle of a tedious and strung-out debate about work and flexibility, and a disturbing number of people seem to have Stockholm syndrome. Only yesterday I read a piece in Fortune magazine entitled: “Want to work 9-to-5? Good luck building a career”. The concept of work/life balance has “become emblematic of a woke work environment – one that acknowledges that an employee base is composed of actual humans, often with spouses, children and outside interests”, said the writer. God forbid!

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EUA prices erased early losses amid a very quiet morning's trading on Thursday, amid weaker energy prices.

Climate engineering sounds scary. But is coming whether we like it or not, this scientist says

The realities of climate change are front-page news every day. Temperature records are being smashed. Wildfires are raging. There is no sign of things going back to “normal”. If anything, they will only get worse.

Last year, when the planet was convulsing with the arrival of a pandemic, we pinned our hopes on technology – in the form of an mRNA vaccine – getting us out of our crisis. The vaccine was a technological intervention, injected into the arms of billions of people. Could we (should we?) look to technological solutions to our climate crisis, too?

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Australia's Clean Energy Regulator on Thursday announced it had registered nine more ERF projects, taking the total number of Australian offset projects to 1,000.

Australian oil and gas company Santos on Thursday became the world’s first company to be sued over its net zero target, with a non-profit shareholder advocacy group bringing the case.

The 48MW Kincardine Offshore Wind farm has been completed off the coast of Aberdeenshire.

The post World’s largest floating wind farm completed in Scotland appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A combination of high-profile grid failures, power outages, and mounting electricity bills, has put a rocket under the US home solar and battery market.

The post Blackouts and soaring electricity bills drive US homeowners to solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Santos sued by shareholder group alleging claims gas is "clean energy" are misleading, and that the company's zero emissions strategies are not credible.

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Those who catastrophise about the fate of smaller parties within coalitions may be betraying their southern perspective

At the press conference to announce the SNP’s landmark cooperation agreement with the Scottish Greens, Nicola Sturgeon could scarcely contain her glee. And no wonder. What better way to burnish her government’s environmental credentials at the UN climate conference, Cop26, in Glasgow than to trumpet its willingness to engage in “grownup politics” for the betterment of the planet?

In Westminster, Boris Johnson is struggling. Earlier this month, a new climate breakdown report reinforced the severity of the crisis. Yet civil servants fear he has left it too late to push the world’s worst polluters to cut their greenhouse gases in order to meet the Paris agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Having initially refused to give Sturgeon a seat at the Cop26 negotiating table, the prime minister must be spitting feathers at the way she has turned the spotlight on her government at his expense.

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Independent advice to ESB warned against capacity mechanism championed by Angus Taylor, and which may pay coal plants to do things they can't do.

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Angus Taylor's main goal when he became energy minister was to stop wind and solar in their tracks. He may finally be succeeding.

The post After three years, Taylor is finally succeeding in his promise to stop wind and solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Clean Energy Finance Corp boss Ian Learmonth has an EV, but no garage, and struggles to find a fast EV charger in the city. He shares his views on the EV transition.

The post The Driven Podcast: Inner city blues – Where to find a fast EV charge appeared first on RenewEconomy.

26 August 1970: Government agency questions whether ‘greenhouse’ effect from the burning of fossil fuels will raise the Earth’s temperature

Too much fuss is being made about the fashionable word “pollution,” says the government agency which has been keeping an eye on it since 1863. The Chief Alkali Inspector, Mr FE Ireland, who published his annual report yesterday, says: “We must beware the obvious danger that emotions could be roused to the point of overriding common sense. This is not a problem to be tackled in a spirit of panic and those prophets of doom who predict the more bizarre kind of human catastrophe and paint rather self-righteous pictures of scientists as irresponsible villains exploiting humanity to the point of disaster could well be doing their (and our) cause a great disservice.”

Related: Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored)

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The ESB's recommended energy market reforms include proposal that could lump some wind and solar projects with the costs of network congestion.

The post The “sleeper” market reform that could punish new wind and solar projects appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Understanding the moral dimensions of climate decisions could help promote fairer and more effective climate action Jacqueline Lau, Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University Andrew Song, Lecturer / ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow (DECRA), University of Technology Sydney Jessica Blythe, Assistant Professor, Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Scientists say light pollution is a factor driving "worrying" declines in local insect populations.

It is believed to be the first time this behaviour of giant tortoises has been documented.