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Investing in local battery production and the use of renewables to power industry could drive a renaissance in Australia's manufacturing sector.

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• Apple and cherry production hampered by lack of wild bees
• Bees affected by loss of habitat, pesticides and climate crisis

A lack of bees in agricultural areas is limiting the supply of some food crops, a new US-based study has found, suggesting that declines in the pollinators may have serious ramifications for global food security.

Related: ‘Murder hornets’: race to protect North America's honeybees from giant invader

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Australia’s energy transition is accelerating, but energy minister Angus Taylor is doing his best to try and bury the details and the key decisions.

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During the pandemic, we saw ideological nonsense and prejudice mostly put aside – and we saw what we could accomplish when it was

Carl Sagan – one of my heroes and a scientist with a gift for communicating complex ideas in accessible ways – wrote back in 1994: “If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves … If we become even slightly more violent, shortsighted, ignorant, and selfish than we are now, almost certainly we will have no future.”

Clearly I don’t know what he would write if he were alive today. But he could hardly say that in the intervening 26 years we have become even slightly less violent, shortsighted, ignorant and selfish; I suspect that he would be dismayed at how much worse we have become; and how much more power has been accumulated without wisdom.

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See the damage done by waves – and the problem will only get worse with climate change, experts say.

Environmental groups slam leaked findings of Morrison government's National Covid-19 Commission, which has, unsurprisingly, called for massive subsidies for gas industry and the weakening of environmental oversight.

The post Gas lobby’s leaked Power grab for post Covid subsidies sparks outrage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Princess Royal has guest edited Country Life magazine ahead of her 70th birthday.

Sun Cable's plans to build world’s largest dispatchable solar and battery power stations, and world’s largest subsea transmission link, put on fast-track by federal government.

The post Sun Cable’s massive 10GW solar export plan awarded Major Project status appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Jane Goodall is a pioneering primatologist who redefined what it means to be human. She spoke to Clive Phillips, a professor of animal welfare. Clive Phillips, Professor of Animal Welfare, Centre for Animal Welfare and Ethics, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Ecuador is on alert due to the appearance of a fleet of fishing vessels off the Galapagos Islands.

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An independent review of the UK's food policy calls for a new green revolution.

Global Witness campaigners warn of risk of further killings during Covid-19 lockdowns

A record number of people were killed last year for defending their land and environment, according to research that highlights the routine murder of activists who oppose extractive industries driving the climate crisis and the destruction of nature.

More than four defenders were killed every week in 2019, according to an annual death toll compiled by the independent watchdog Global Witness, amid growing evidence of opportunistic killings during the Covid-19 lockdown in which activists were left as “sitting ducks” in their own homes.

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An audacious mission to bring rock samples from Mars back to Earth is about to begin - find our more with our illustrated guide

Map of renewable energy generation in Western Australia's main grid, including wind, solar and biomass.

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Grid connection problems cited by leading developers and financiers as biggest risk to investments in renewables in Australia.

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A global commodities firm has launched an AI-powered business to offer industry and SMEs a low-cost path to achieving 'private wire' energy supply and net zero emissions.

The Tesla big battery at Hornsdale drove a tripling of storage revenues in first half, but the network services revenue is looking less favourable.

The post Hornsdale triples battery storage revenue, but FCAS market shrinks appeared first on RenewEconomy.

California’s Compliance Offset Protocol Task Force (OPTF) should recommend changes to invalidation language in the state’s compliance forestry protocol and allow initiatives to add or remove project areas in its report to regulator ARB on possible programme amendments, according to nearly a dozen developers.

A villain with the markings of the Marvel character is among 164 new species discovered in Australia.