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CEFC turns attention to transformation of Australia's mining sector towards a greener future after boosting its stake in lithium producer by $51 million.

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Australian zinc-bromine flow battery maker Redflow goes into trading halt, after falling short of its latest capital-raising target.

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Review of UK mammals finds that a quarter of native species are at "imminent threat of extinction".

Community scale batteries are all the rage, thanks largely to Western Power’s rollout of 13 of them in southwest WA. And what is not to like? With economies of scale vis-a-vis home batteries, and without requiring any upfront capital investment, they are generally a more cost-effective alternative for consumers. For those of us stuck on...

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About 800 million children, mostly in developing countries, ‘will have had risky exposure’

One in three children around the world have concentrations of lead in their blood at levels likely to cause significant long-term health damage, new research has found.

About 800 million children and young people under the age of 19 are likely to have blood levels of lead at or above 5 micrograms per decilitre (5μg/dl), according to the report.

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Kangaroo Island’s glossies were flourishing until the fires. Now the tale of one family’s survival has offered fresh hope

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Somewhere on Australia’s Kangaroo Island, a fledgling glossy black-cockatoo with identity number 0601 is laying down a new chapter in a remarkable survival story.

In early January this year, her panicked parents fled their nest in a gum tree at the edge of Carol and John Stanton’s garden to escape the smoke and flames of bushfires that were sweeping across a third of the island.

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Concerns grow as Nile River nations fail to reach a deal on how to share the vital waters.

Ingenuity is a 1.8kg (4lb) helicopter that will ride to Mars attached to the belly of Nasa's Perseverance.

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California’s WCI-capped fuel consumption collapsed in April as a statewide ‘shelter-in-place’ order scuttled vehicle miles travelled (VMT) across the Golden State, leading to historic lows for gasoline demand, according to state data released Wednesday.

The ISP's doesn't target lowest emissions. It targets a lowest-cost replacement of ageing fossil fuel power stations, with a minimum standard for reliability. It finds that the cheapest, most reliable way forward is clean.

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Coal power generation at UK utility Drax more than doubled in H1 as the company sought to use up its remaining stockpiles ahead of an anticipated coal phaseout in Mar. 2021, it said in first-half results on Wednesday.

The Massachusetts House of Representatives omitted carbon pricing language from a Senate climate bill on Wednesday, but advocates are hopeful that lawmakers can reinsert the provision after the lower chamber agreed to extend the legislative session past this month.

In the latest episode of our Carbon Pulse Conservations podcast, we speak with Sheppard Mullin Partner Nico Van Aelstyn about the recent federal court rulings in the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) legal challenges to the California-Quebec carbon market linkage.

Indigo is looking for a carbon credit statistician for its Boston office.

You will be responsible for providing bespoke advice primarily to public sector authorities and financial intermediaries on the design, set up and implementation of these types of structures and support packages.

You will be responsible for providing bespoke advice primarily to public sector authorities and financial intermediaries on the design, set up and implementation of these types of structures and support packages.

The Research Associate will support a new pan-European, multi-institution consortium (NEGEM) focused on assessing carbon dioxide gas removal (CDR) options such as bioenergy with CCS (BECCS), direct air capture of CO2 with CO2 storage (DACCS), enhanced weathering, afforestation, soil carbon sequestration and other negative emissions technologies and practices (NETPs).

New research has found the window of opportunity for hazard reduction burns won’t actually get smaller, but instead change seasons. Giovanni Di Virgilio, Research associate, UNSW Annette Hirsch, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, UNSW Hamish Clarke, Research Fellow, University of Wollongong Jason Evans, Professor, UNSW Jason Sharples, Professor of Bushfire Dynamics, School of Science, UNSW Canberra, UNSW Melissa Hart, Graduate Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, UNSW Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Archaeologists have pinpointed the source of the stones to an area 15 miles north of the site.