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Nasa's first flight director played a critical role in the first Moon landing 50 years ago.

Freedom of speech is a favourite issue for many conservative MPs in the government, but just how involved should a federal government get in these debates?

Nine tonnes of contraband tusks from about 300 animals found in illegal cargo from DRC

Singapore has made its largest ever seizure of smuggled ivory, impounding a haul of nearly nine tonnes of contraband tusks from an estimated 300 elephants, according to the authorities.

The illegal cargo, discovered on Sunday in a container from the Democratic Republic of the Congo also included a huge stash of pangolin scales – the third such seizure in as many months.

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Cafod says UK is saddling poorer nations with outdated, polluting technologies

The British government has spent £680m of its foreign aid budget on fossil fuel projects since 2010, according to analysis that highlights the UK’s failure to align diplomatic, trade and aid policies with the goals of the Paris climate agreement.

Britain allocated more overseas development cash to oil and gas in the two years after signing the 2015 agreement than it had in the previous five, according to the study commissioned by the Catholic development agency Cafod and carried out by the Commons international development committee.

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Taylor recieves repeated warnings to provide answers as the minister for reducing emissions attempts to avoid conceding he is failing his own job title.

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Yallourn is profitable, but will likely depend on exports to NSW to remain so. Meanwhile, maintenance costs will remain high and reliability will be an issue.

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The ballot has closed, but the battery industry may have to wait to find out if new strict installation standards have been approved or not.

The post Battery industry on tenterhooks, awaiting result on vote for new standard appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The marine biologist, conservationist and specialist underwater photographer Roger Grace died at his New Zealand home in June. We celebrate his incredible legacy

All photographs: Roger Grace/Greenpeace

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South Australia says it has 10GW of wind and solar projects now in pipeline, as it heads towards target of "net" 100% renewables, and becoming a clean energy powerhouse.

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AEMO issued a formal warning after "intentional" breaches of the WA electricity market rules that saw generators get paid ineligible capacity credits.

The post Regulator finds AEMO made ‘intentional and avoidable’ breach of market rules appeared first on RenewEconomy.

New York announces country’s largest renewable energy procurement in US as it moves to meet the country's most ambitious 100% renewable energy target.

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The 310MW Lake Turkana Wind Power project is Africa’s largest, and will help Kenya reach its 100% renewables target by 2020.

The post Kenya moves closer to 100% renewables with completion of Africa’s biggest wind farm appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Share of rooftop and utility scale solar peak at more than 20% of Australia grid demand six days in a row - in middle of winter.

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A Gold Coast woman has completed a solo trip around Australia in an electric car, driving 17,000km in 80 days in her Tesla Model S.

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Roman and early Saxon finds were also discovered at the settlement, which was previously unknown.

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Many homes now have rooftop solar. But what if those panels, which contain many valuable commodities and sometimes toxic ones, end up in landfill?

New RGGI speculators recently began to offload positions built earlier this year, while compliance entities sought allowances prior to a US heatwave, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data showed.

More stringent electricity benchmarks for new natural gas plants under Canada’s ‘backstop’ output-based pricing system (OBPS) may still be slow to incentivise greater renewables usage and could also exacerbate dispatch decisions of more carbon-intensive fuel types under the programme, economists said.