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While the rest of the world is turning off nuclear power, we in Australia are looking at including it in our energy mix.

Seller’s kept EU carbon prices near their recent lows on light volumes Wednesday, despite the supply dearth created by a one-day auction pause amid a month of halved sale quantities.

Tiny animals called tardigrades are thought to have survived a crash-landing on the moon.

The parrot roamed New Zealand 19 million years ago, and may have been flightless and carnivorous.

Selling water from melted icebergs is big business on Canada's eastern coast, but there are concerns over Arctic warming.

The Australian Energy Regulator is taking legal action against four wind farm operators. The Grattan Institute's Tony Wood joins RN Drive.

The seaside birds are less likely to steal your chips when you watch them, according to scientists.

John Laing's 175MW Finley Solar Farm – the $170m project contracted to sell power to BlueScope Steel – has begun sending power to the NSW grid.

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Edinburgh-based SIMEC Atlantis announces launch of $12.7m bond it hopes will help fund its pipeline of tidal and waste-to-energy projects.

The post Simec Atlantis seeks to raise $12 million to fund project pipeline appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Coal lobby promises follow up to its widely mocked "little black rock" PR campaign, as group funded by BHP and others plans $5 million marketing blitz.

The post Australian coal lobby plans another multi-million PR campaign appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Action plan to be drawn up as dry summers, storms and pests destroy swathes of woodland

A catastrophic combination of heat, drought, storms, forest fires, beetle plagues and a fungi blight have so far this year destroyed swathes of German forest equivalent to more than 200,000 football fields.

Forests are one of the most efficient ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, and in Germany alone they are able to absorb 62 million tonnes of CO2 – about 7% of the country’s emissions – every year.

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Nissan has released its next generation Leaf electric vehicle, with twice the range and the chance to power the home. We take it for a drive.

The post The Driven Podcast: Nissan Leaf test drive appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AER takes four wind farm companies to court over their role in SA blackout in 2016, a case that may lead to wider class-action suits.

The post AER sues four wind farm companies over South Australian blackout appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Scientists at ANU help identify a key step in the photosynthesis reaction of plants that could untap abundant supplies of renewable hydrogen.

The post ANU says photosynthesis could unlock endless supplies of renewable hydrogen appeared first on RenewEconomy.

UN aviation body ICAO's expert panel will consider 14 emissions unit programme applications for the global offsetting mechanism CORSIA, with the submissions ranging from Kyoto era offset programmes and REDD initiatives to jurisdictional schemes in China, the Middle East, and Poland.

EnergyAustralia, one of country's big there gentailers, suffers billion-dollar loss as it writes down value of retail business and suffer major problems at its coal generators.

The post EnergyAustralia plunges into red after massive writedowns, coal problems appeared first on RenewEconomy.

New Zealand's dairy industry is arguing consumers are being misled if the term "milk" is used for plant-based products such as almond or coconut milk, but consumers are savvier than that. Dan Weijers, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Co-editor International Journal of Wellbeing, University of Waikato Nick Munn, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Waikato Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Failed efforts to impose a carbon tax in Washington state would have likely exerted significant financial pressure on downstream firms in the Pacific Northwest state by creating a stranded asset risk, according to new research.

Optical links will pull pictures and data from other spacecraft and then speed them to the ground.