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Australia's greenhouse gas emissions rose in the first three months of the year, driven higher by carbon capture failures and a recovering economy.

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The push for a new environmental crime has attracted high-profile backers including French President Emmanuel Macron, Pope Francis and Greta Thunberg. But we must get the details right. Anthony Burke, Professor of Environmental Politics & International Relations, UNSW Danielle Celermajer, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

MPower’s plans to build, own and operate up to 20 small solar farms of 5MW each is starting to bear fruit, with purchase agreements locked in for two project sites.

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Victoria puts call out for another 600MW of new, large-scale renewable energy capacity, with the launch of its second VRET auction.

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New Energy Solar says curtailment issues complicated its exit from Australian market, particularly at Manildra solar farm where output fell 40pct.

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From electric car design and battery technology, through to computer chips, data processing and neural nets, Tesla has become a leader in each field.

The post Tesla AI Day: What it means for cars, the grid, and for humanity appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Researchers say zinc-ion chemistry promises large scale battery storage that is cheaper, safer, and more environmentally friendly than lithium-ion.

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Sale-based Ramahyuck District Aboriginal Corporation seeks EPC contractors to develop 4.9MW solar project on farmland in Victoria.

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The highly polluting fuel has contaminated the atmosphere, water and crops for nearly a century.

The former boss of blood testing company Theranos is accused of fraud and could face years in jail.

A carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) imposed by the EU on its trading partners will only have a minor effect on European imports, a study has found.

Standardised voluntary emissions reduction (VER) prices rebounded this week after a brief retracement, with voluntary carbon market (VCM) participants noting that new highs set on exchange-traded, CORSIA-eligible offsets were differing from values on the more heavily traded over-the-counter market.

A new book says Australia’s 20-year water trading experiment is sucking hundreds of millions of dollars each year out of the Murray-Darling Basin and directing water away from productive land. Scott Hamilton, Strategic Advisory Panel Member, Australian-German Energy Transition Hub, The University of Melbourne Stuart Kells, Adjunct Professor, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australia’s alpine region warmed for about 600 years. What makes this climate change particularly interesting is that it bears striking similarity to today. Zoë Thomas, ARC DECRA Fellow, UNSW Haidee Cadd, Research associate, University of Wollongong Larissa Schneider, DECRA fellow, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A large US-based utility has urged Pennsylvania’s Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC) to approve a RGGI-modelled cap-and-trade regulation this week despite a flood of comments from Republicans, labour groups, and industry stakeholders against the measure.

Texas Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) prices declined over the second half of August to stop a bull run that has taken wider North American compliance and voluntary Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) markets by storm over the past year.

About 10,000 officers a day will be present at event likely to be focus of wide range of demonstrations

Thousands of officers will receive public order training in the run-up to the Cop26 summit in Glasgow in November, Police Scotland has said.

About 10,000 officers from around the UK will be deployed each day of the climate summit, making it one of the largest policing operations ever undertaken in Britain.

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Hurricane Ida made landfall on the US state of Louisiana, on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Metropolitan police say officers at the scene to get traffic moving after van and caravan used to block road

Extinction Rebellion protesters have blocked Tower Bridge with a van and caravan on Sunday in the latest step of their continuing demonstrations.

Activists from the group, also known as XR, lay on the ground near the London landmark to protest against government investment in fossil fuels as part of their fifth wave of mass protests on environmental issues.

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A short video clip captured by the crew of Captain John Boats and posted to Facebook shows the apex predators, one estimated to be at least 18ft (5.5 metres) long, devouring what whale expert Peter Corkeron called 'the biggest smorgasbord a shark could ever dream of'.

A decomposing carcass of a year-old humpback calf floating in the waters of the Stellwagen Bank national marine sanctuary turned into a camera-ready moment, when two large great whites showed up and started feasting on the remains.

Over the next two days, eight great whites arrived along with blue sharks and numerous species of seabird, according to researchers funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Eight great white sharks seen feeding on humpback whale carcass

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