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Utility EDF on Wednesday upped its French nuclear generation target for 2020 by up to 6%, projecting shorter planned outages at its fleet of 58 plants in the country through the rest of this year.

Switzerland has clinched a bilateral agreement with Peru to purchase carbon offsets under the Paris Agreement’s Article 6, the parties announced on Wednesday.

The project will analyse every leaf on every crop, helping farmers tend the fields.

The Shanghai government will auction an additional 2 million carbon allowances to participants in its emissions trading scheme on Oct. 30, the deadline day for participants to surrender permits to cover for their 2019 emissions.

Thales Alenia Space will build Europe's two major contributions to the Lunar Gateway space station.

Price and local distributor named as Energizer prepares to launch its 6.1kWh Homepower battery in Australia and globally.

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Warming ocean contributes to sea level rise and to more extreme weather such as hurricanes

Even the pitch black, nearly freezing waters at the bottom of the ocean – far from where humans live and burn fossil fuels – are slowly warming, according to a study of a decade of hourly measurements.

The temperatures are rising quicker than previously thought, as recorded at stations at four different depths in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Uruguay. Between 2009 and 2019, the water there at points between 1,360m (4,462ft) and 4,757m deep warmed by 0.02-0.04C.

The change may seem minuscule, but it is significant.

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Bob Inglis tells Australian thinktank that Fox News and Wall Street Journal are holding back progress on climate

A former Republican congressman has blamed Rupert Murdoch’s media outlets for fuelling “climate rejectionism” among conservatives, suggesting they could be part of the reason why the United States is failing to lead the world to tackle global heating.

Bob Inglis, a former South Carolina congressman who has renounced his previous climate denialism and now leads a group seeking to rally conservatives to act, questioned the role of News Corp and Fox Corporation during an event hosted by the Australia Institute.

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South Korea sold all 616,100 allowances on offer in Wednesday’s monthly carbon auction, the first time a sale goes oversubscribed in half a year as KAU prices are slowly recovering after being slashed in half over the summer months.

UK doctors say it is the first such case they have seen linked to the pandemic coronavirus.

Is poor management of forests to blame for deadly fires in the United States?

Mass bleaching events triggered by record-breaking water temperatures have the most impact on coral depletion

Corals on the Great Barrier Reef have more than halved over the past 25 years, according to a study that prompted scientists to again warn the world-famous landmark will become unrecognisable without a sharp reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

Researchers from the Townsville-based ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies assessed coral communities and size between 1995 and 2017 and found the number of small, medium and large corals had fallen more than 50%.

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The defeat of the agriculture bill is a blow to the many who believe Britain could lead the world in sustainable farming

In a world of polarised debates, there is a broad, non-partisan consensus on the issue of trade and standards. So it was disappointing – even if predictable – that the government whipped against amendments to protect UK food standards in the agriculture bill, which returned to the House of Commons this week. The key amendment was defeated last night by 332 votes to 279. Curiously, many Tory shire MPs voted against the expressed concerns of their farming constituencies, while Ed Davey and Keir Starmer donned their wellies and backed British farming. Farming minister Victoria Prentis argued that the amendments were not needed, since the government had already promised to uphold UK standards in future trade deals.

Although they lost the Commons vote, credit should go to the combined efforts of the campaigning organisations – from the National Farmers’ Union, CLA and Tenant Farmers Association, to Green Alliance, RSPB, Wildlife Trusts, Which?, Sustain, WWF and many more – that have shifted farming standards and trade debates to the front pages of the tabloids. Leavers and remainers have come together, with Prue Leith supporting Jamie Oliver’s spirited #saveourstandards campaign, connecting children’s health and the future of small farmers. Campaigners have focused on chlorine-washed chicken, hormone-fed beef or ractopamine-dosed pigs, all features of US industrial production systems that we know are bad for people and planet. But it goes much further than this.

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Sergey Gorshkov’s image of an Amur Tiger hugging an ancient Mancurian fir tree has won the prestigious wildlife photographer of the year 2020 award. The intimate moment, in which the tigress is marking her territory, will feature alongside other category winners in an exhibition at the Natural History Museum from Friday 16 October.

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Exclusive: Sunshine and available land offer a ‘world-class’ opportunity, expert says

Queensland has the potential to draw all of its electricity from renewable sources in a 15-year transition away from fossil fuels that would generate almost 10,000 jobs, according to analysis commissioned by the Queensland Conservation Council.

Almost 11,000 ongoing jobs would then operate and maintain a suite of energy sources either existing or proposed in the state, including wind and solar and farms, hydro plants and battery projects.

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The International Energy Agency has often been mocked for its poor assessment of the potential of solar power, both in terms of deployment and cost reductions, and it is still is. But now, even the IEA has conceded that solar power is low cost, in fact it is now “the cheapest electricity in history.” This...

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New data shows September has delivered UQ Powerpack battery system's second highest revenue to date. But there's more to the story...

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A group of 16 Australian institutional investors have banded together to help drive a 45% drop in national greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, a move that would set the country on a path to reaching net zero by mid-century and cut carbon by 230 million tonnes of CO2e per year beyond the government’s target at the end of this decade.

Vales Point coal plant, which is to get $8.7m of taxpayers money to fund upgrades, fined just $30,000 for breaches of rules regarding dumping of toxic materials.

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Every type of coral has declined since 1995 because of climate change, an Australian study finds.