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Queensland's Palaszczuk Government hands down its budget today, and along with bread-and-butter issues like more air conditioning for schools, mining royalties are a key focus.

Up to 10 cases of dengue fever have emerged in an unusual outbreak of the potentially deadly disease in central Queensland. As authorities try to contain the spread of the virus, new research predicts the dengue risk zone could extend to inland Australia by 2050 due to climate change.

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Carbon offset credits should only play a transitional role in meeting Paris Agreement goals and the use of such credits may be drawing to a close, the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) said Monday.

Australia is the world's biggest producer of lithium, a crucial component in things like EV batteries, and we also have other valuable rare earth metals. But can Australia make the most of the opportunities from this growing resources sector?

Pacific Forest Trust’s small-yet-mighty, collaborative, creative, and product-oriented policy team requires a nimble staff member who can manage multiple and frequently competing priorities, and produce creatively under pressure—with grace and humor. The Policy Associate role is crucial to helping understand simply and tangibly the complex, often technical issues that confront forest landowners and stakeholders alike in our rapidly changing world.

The expert panel for UN body ICAO's CORSIA programme is aiming to make recommendations by Feb. 2020 on eligible credit types, coming less than a year before the start of the global aviation offsetting scheme's pilot phase.

EUAs jumped to its highest level since May on Monday, climbing 2.8% as the lack of an auction and a public holiday across much of the continent quelled trade.

The EU should consider introducing measures to reveal the trading positions of participants in its ETS, a veteran market expert has said, warning that speculator holding limits similar to those seen in other carbon markets could be inevitable.

BBC One presenter Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall investigates what we can all do to reduce our use of plastic.

Letters from one the fertility treatment's pioneers says Jean Purdy contributed as much as him.

The French were probably sipping wines we drink today 900 years ago, according to DNA from old grapes.

Study shows 571 species wiped out, and scientists say figure is likely to be big underestimate

Human destruction of the living world is causing a “frightening” number of plant extinctions, according to scientists who have completed the first global analysis of the issue.

They found 571 species had definitely been wiped out since 1750 but with knowledge of many plant species still very limited the true number is likely to be much higher. The researchers said the plant extinction rate was 500 times greater now than before the industrial revolution, and this was also likely to be an underestimate.

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Embattled California utility Pacific Gas & Electric may reject power purchase agreements (PPAs) as it seeks to reorganise itself, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) may not intervene on those decisions, a bankruptcy court ruled late Friday.

Energy firm says project will be big step towards continuous renewable power for UK

Scottish Power is to undertake the most ambitious battery power project in Europe in an attempt to unlock the potential of the UK’s wind and solar farms.

The company will connect an industrial-scale battery to the Whitelee onshore windfarm early next year to capture more power from its 214 turbines.

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South Korean state-owned power company KEPCO and trading firm Ecoeye are investing in a mangrove forest project in Myanmar that will be registered under the CDM and generate offsets eligible in the Korean emissions trading scheme.

The Western Australia EPA on Monday began a new consultation round for its GHG guidelines, after being forced to withdraw a previous proposal that included an obligation for all major projects to offset their carbon emissions.

Iberdrola plans 590MW solar PV installation in Spain, which will be biggest in Europe when complete.

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A California budget compromise would funnel the state's WCI cap-and-trade auction revenues to workforce training and safe drinking water programmes, potentially conflicting with a legislative counsel opinion that found carbon funds must be used to directly reduce emissions until 2021.

Indigenous women boxing for fitness and confidence; preserving rural property's historic church; ranger catching rabbits with ferrets; rural community draws crowds to pumpkin festival.