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S.A. government awards planning approval for compressed air energy storage system, a national first and another big step forward for clean energy in Australia.

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Adani's request for the names of individual scientists reviewing their groundwater management plan has chilling implications for scientific independence. Samantha Hepburn, Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

US has offered close to 378m acres of public lands and waters for oil and gas leasing since Trump took office through April 2019

Donald Trump’s leases of public lands and waters for oil and gas drilling could lead to the production of more climate-warming pollution than the entire European Union contributes in a year, according to a new report.

The Wilderness Society estimates heat-trapping emissions from extracting and burning those fossil fuels could range between 854m and 4.7bn metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, depending on how much development companies pursue.

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Future Super will partner with RateSetter to expand the availability to affordable finance for residential solar and storage systems.

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Market Forces seeks the support of super funds for its shareholder resolution pushing AGL to accelerate its transition out of coal.

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Five years to the day since the repeal of the carbon tax, emissions and prices have both increased, and the Australian economy is slowing. So, what was the point?

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Exclusive: ‘Sneaky’ rezoning exercise now under way to address timber shortfall

The New South Wales government is considering reclassifying old growth forest to open up some protected reserves in the state’s north-east to the timber industry.

The Natural Resources Commission of NSW has been asked to remap and rezone old growth forest in state forest informal reserves that were previously off limits to logging. Environment groups are concerned the move is an attempt to unpick forest protections that have been in place for decades.

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Eytan Lenko, chair of Beyond Zero Emissions, explains why governments, suppliers, developers, and financiers are getting behind proposals for the world’s biggest solar project in the N.T.

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MPs say the simple step of adding more ethanol to the UK's fuel mix would be same as taking 700,000 cars off the roads.

Apollo 11's journey seen from Mission Control

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The Moon appears red on the day of the 50th anniversary of the historic space flight.

Timothy Mwangi has cared for chimpanzees for nearly two decades at this rescue centre in Kenya.

Could a year's global plastic waste circle the Earth four times over?

An investment vehicle managed by green group The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has acquired three WCI-registered offset projects in the southeast US, as the organisation continues to build its portfolio in the California carbon market.

New research blows away myth of "energy returned on investment" and says wind and solar will soon offer a better EROI than fossil fuels.

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The European Parliament narrowly endorsed Ursula von der Leyen as the new European Commission president late Tuesday, though her promise of a “green deal for Europe” failed to win over the assembly’s most dedicated environmentalists.

Visitors were unhappy when a changeover in services prompted the national park to change the names of hotels and attractions

Some of Yosemite’s most well-known and beloved attractions will get their original names back, following a settlement in an intellectual property dispute that briefly changed the monikers of the national park’s hotels and landmarks.

The name change came about in a legal battle with Delaware North, a company that lost a $2bn bid to run concessions for the California park’s hotels, restaurants and outdoor activities. After Yosemite awarded a contract to Aramark, the park service learned that Delaware North had applied for trademarks for the names when it prepared to open bids.

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Clownfish eggs exposed to artificial light completely fail to hatch, highlighting the growing problem of light pollution. Emily Fobert, Research Associate, Flinders University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Michael Collins visits the exact spot the first manned mission to the moon launched from 50 years ago.