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The global offshore wind industry installed an impressive and record 6.1GW of new capacity in 2019, bringing the global total up to 29GW.

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Total acquires 80% stake in the 96MW Erebus floating offshore wind project to be built off the coast of Wales in the Celtic Sea.

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Times have changed, but the influence of the gas lobby hasn’t. We need a better plan for Victoria than reliance on a fossil fuel long past its use-by date.

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A powerful emissions integrity committee slaps down coal industry calls for climate funds to be used for coal power station upgrades.

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Australian wind power heavyweights call on Victoria to stick to the science of limiting global warming to 1.5°C when setting state's interim emission reduction targets.

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Clean Energy Council adds voice to calls for Covid-19 response to include projects that deliver long term benefits, such as rooftop solar, batteries, and micro-grids.

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This giant albino Burmese python, believed to be over five metres in length and weighing more than 80kg, is captured at a home in Oxenford, Queensland, on 22  March. Veteran snake handler Tony Harrison says it's the biggest he has seen in his 27-year career. 'The poor old lady who opened the front door to see it there got the fright of her life,' he says. The snake, suspected of being an illegal pet, is a banned species in Australia, meaning it will probably be destroyed

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A drone photo of crabeater seals resting on an ice float is overall winner in a nature photography competition.

Is there a better way to respond to Covid-19? Economist Matt Grudnoff on why the government stimulus package should lock in secondary benefits, the type you get from renewables.

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Queensland snake catcher says 80kg albino Burmese python found in Oxenford is the largest he has come across in 27 years

As a seasoned snake catcher, Tony Harrison is used to the people the claiming there is a five-metre snake on their doorstep. But for the first time on Monday, the caller wasn’t exaggerating.

“This was the largest snake I have come across in 27 years,” Harrison said. “The poor old lady who opened the front door to see it there got the fright of her life”

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British Columbia will suspend next week’s CO2 levy price increase as the Canadian province rolls out a C$5-billion action plan to help businesses and residents affected by the COVID-19 coronavirus fallout, Premier John Horgan announced Monday.

The huge challenge the world faces to find an exit strategy to end the lockdowns and return to normal.

The cost and impact of coronavirus will imperil necessary action on the climate emergency. Towns and cities must use their collective imaginations to make a difference

Difficult and almost impossibly daunting as it may seem, the world is faced with not one but two existential crises and two races against time: the coronavirus and the climate emergency. Dealing with both is going to require extraordinary focus and resolution.

Already there is a whiff of political opportunism in the air. Last week, the Czech prime minister, Andrej Babiš, said that the €1tn European Green Deal, unveiled and enshrined in law by the European commission barely three weeks ago, should be put to one side. Member states, he advised, should concentrate all resources on combating a pandemic which, one by one, is shutting down societies and economies. Along with other eastern European states such as Poland, the Czech government has been reluctant to acknowledge the scale of action required to combat global heating, which would have a severe impact on fossil fuel industries in their countries.

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Powerful owls need old, hollowed-out trees to nest in, but humans keep chopping them down. Now, designers have partnered up with ecologists to build them high tech artificial nests. Dan Parker, PhD Candidate, University of Melbourne Bronwyn Isaac, Lecturer, Monash University Kylie Soanes, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, University of Melbourne Nick Bradsworth, PhD Candidate, Deakin University Stanislav Roudavski, Senior Lecturer in Digital Architectural Design, University of Melbourne Therésa Jones, Associate Professor in Evolution and Behaviour, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

For the next couple of decades, Snowy 2.0 will in fact store coal-fired electricity, not renewable electricity. Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A prospective EU proposal to put shipping emissions in the EU ETS will likely face wrangling over carbon intensity targets and its baseline emission year, analysts said in a report released on Monday. 

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices rebounded on Monday after crumbling below the 2014 WCI floor price in early trading, with several speculators buoying the market in response to more participants unwinding their positions.

Industries across Europe are bracing for more disruption as governments struggle to contain the COVID-19 coronavirus, with initial steps already curbing demand for power and carbon units.