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• Climate crisis reducing land’s ability to sustain humanity, says IPCC

Healthy land provides the food, timber and fresh water essential to humanity’s survival, but a UN report says the climate crisis is damaging this precious resource with potentially irreversible consequences.

The abuse of land by razing forests, intensive farming and loss of soils also produces a quarter of global emissions, further worsening the climate emergency, says the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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A major report says the West's high consumption of meat is fuelling global warming.

We live a throw-away society, but there's help out there to repair broken items. With some leadership and tweaking of economic leavers, it could be so much better.

Sunverge, the provider of an industry leading Distributed Energy Resource (DER) control and aggregation platform, today announced an $11 million capital raise.

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ib vogt GmbH ‘ib vogt’ today announced that it has executed a grid connection agreement with Essential Energy for its 109 MWp Sebastopol Solar Farm in the Riverina, NSW

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Ratch's 180MW Mt Emerald Wind Farm first in a pipeline of wind farms to be built as Queensland aims for 50 per cent renewables.

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Coal generation in Europe has collapsed 19% so far in 2019, which may mark the beginning of the end for coal power in Europe.

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Regulator's accusations against wind farm operators is directly contradicted by AEMO. Market is stunned by court action and wondering what is going on.

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AGL Energy says it is looking to boost its storage and flexible generation options as it eyes a share of what it describes as a $200 billion investment opportunity that will flow through the market from the clean energy transition. In announcing its $1 billion net profit on Thursday, AGL noted that is has $1.5...

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AGL posts $1 billion profit for the year, but expects falling energy prices, rising fuel costs and the impact of retail regulation to dampen future earnings.

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There's a growing fashion for fossils, but some argue it is undermining scientific research.

WIth second major industry protest brewing, Daniel Andrews suggest his government considering key changes in design of state's controversial rooftop solar rebate.

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Staying within WHO pollution limits would prevent 11% of new diagnoses, study says

Almost 67,000 new cases of asthma in children across 18 European countries could be prevented every year if levels of tiny particulates polluting the air are cut to recommended levels, research suggests.

The study joins a growing body of research into the impact of air pollution on human health. A landmark study published in April estimated that 4m new asthma cases a year globally among those aged one to 18 were down to levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in the air.

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Atomik is made with grain and water from the abandoned area around the damaged nuclear power plant.

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Alberta’s lawsuit against the federal ‘backstop’ CO2 tax will focus more closely on the national concern branch of the Canadian constitution than previous Conservative-led legal challenges, while also arguing that strategies other than a minimum carbon pricing standard can drive GHG reductions.

A former London-based Deutsche Bank carbon trader has been charged by German authorities for his suspected role in using the EU ETS to commit tax fraud.

• Dramatic increase in bites continues recent upward trend
• North Carolina, Georgia and Texas on track to break records

Climate warming and the expansion of human settlements across the southern states of the US has led to a dramatic increase in the number of people bitten during encounters with venomous snakes, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

The increase in bites is on track to break records in North Carolina, Georgia and Texas where copperhead rattlesnakes are the dominant species, with a total of 2,118 bites, an increase of 83 over the previous year, the newspaper said. In Florida, where the eastern coral snake and the cottonmouth are common, numbers remain average.

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Natalie Christopher, 35, was last seen on Monday going for a run on the island of Ikaria.

Seagulls are intimidated by eye contact, a study has found. Just make sure you look away before four minutes have elapsed …

Name: The hard stare.

Age: Around as long as there have been eyes.

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