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Culls drive badgers to roam further afield, allowing them to disperse TB over a larger area, research suggests.

A test-drive of Fonzarelli new NKD model prototype, best described as a hybrid between a scooter and a motorcycle.

The post Small is beautiful for Australia’s new electric two wheelers appeared first on RenewEconomy.

ESB chair says propping up old coal generators is a bad idea, saying other technologies are better placed to secure reliable power and hailing performance of Tesla big battery.

The post Schott labels Liddell and Bayswater “dinosaurs” in slapdown of Coalition’s coal plans appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Cam I upgrade the battery in an EV? It’s a question that goes to the heart of the difference between “old auto” and “new auto”.

The post Can I upgrade the battery of an electric vehicle to lift range, charging limits? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

KPMG report casts doubt over federal government-backed plans to power Queensland World Heritage-listed Daintree region with solar to hydrogen gas-based microgrids.

The post Daintree power supply saga drags on as new report casts doubt over micro-grid plans appeared first on RenewEconomy.

After being fined for blocking oil refinery traffic, Daniel Hooper, once the public face of green activism, applauds new generation

More than two decades after Britain saw its first widespread environmental protests, Extinction Rebellion is the latest in the vanguard.

But while campaign groups have come and gone, it’s business as usual for Daniel Hooper, the veteran eco-warrior known as Swampy who says the latest protests give him “hope”.

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Nearly 400 all-time high temperature records were broken over the summer.

Where businesses cut down on plastic, fishermen collect litter and students march about the climate.

Modern democratic politics have taken what could be called an 'optimistic turn': a kind of hyperbolic cheeriness in the face of a purported threat; an assurance that the future will be bright, and that only the man at the helm can deliver it. So there’s no need to be anxious. Political philosopher Romand Coles joins Waleed and Scott to discuss why this optimism is the antithesis of genuine democratic hope.

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Civil liberties groups say bail conditions imposed on Sydney climate change activists are usually reserved for bikie gang members

Climate change protestors arrested for obstructing traffic have been given “absurd” bail conditions that ban them from “going near” or contacting members of Extinction Rebellion, in what civil liberties groups say infringes on freedom of political communication.

On Monday, 30 people – including former federal Greens senator Scott Ludlam – were arrested in Sydney while calling for government action on the climate emergency.

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The conservationists who campaigned to prevent mining and oil drilling on Australia's coral reef.

NAIF to consider funding for ground-breaking project that could see Australia start exporting "renewable metals", using cheap wind and solar to refine and process ores.

The post NAIF may fund renewables-powered manganese metals project in W.A. appeared first on RenewEconomy.

One man's desire to create the perfect gun profoundly changed manufacturing.

Growing up being constantly reminded that water is finite and rain is unreliable is in the back of my mind wherever I go

An urban legend went around town during the peak of a drought when I was a child.

The story was someone had pulled up their floor during a home renovation and discovered an old newspaper clipping predicting the drought and the date it would finally break. Depending on who was telling the story, it was someone’s neighbour, their cousin or their grandmother who had found the century-old article.

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Ireland’s centre-right government on Tuesday released its 2020 budget, which includes an annual increase in the country’s carbon tax to help fund decarbonisation efforts.

The Antarctic icon could lose more than half its population by 2100, say scientists.

Major environment groups, including the Australian Conservation Foundation and Greenpeace, back XR protests

The head of one of Australia’s largest environment groups has warned Extinction Rebellion protesters they could be creating division on environmental issues at a time when “cool heads” are needed.

Lyndon Schneiders, national campaigns director for the Wilderness Society and a veteran activist, told Guardian Australia he hoped the XR campaign would not hand more power to the fossil fuel lobby by causing further polarisation.

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Many of us have wild and romantic ideas for what we'd like to happen to our remains after we die. Unfortunately, because of bureaucratic practicalities, many of these ideas don't work out as magically as we would have hoped. Well, architect David Neustein is proposing a solution which, he claims, is novel and romantic, but also practically possible.

Oregon green groups launched a new initiative on Tuesday that may give voters the chance to endorse deep decarbonisation and clean energy goals next November if state lawmakers cannot salvage WCI-modelled cap-and-trade legislation in the upcoming legislative term.