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International REDD+ Consultant, Laos Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry – Vientiane
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Torres Strait islanders file UN complaint against Australia
First Tesla Model Y spotted “in the wild” in America
A rare sighting of Tesla's smaller, cheaper SUV – the Model Y – seen driving around on public roads in the US.
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Tesla offers tow bar for Model 3 – has Elon Musk saved the weekend?
Tesla adds tow bar option to Model 3 electric sedan, which should calm Scott Morrison's claims that EVs will kill the Australian weekend.
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Drilling for oil in the Great Australian Bight would be disastrous for marine life and the local community
Ugly stability
Carry On up the solar farm: Queensland’s baffling new solar rules
Slight alteration to Queensland's new solar rules allows labourers to hold panels, but only if an electrician is holding them at the same time.
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Image of the day: Australia’s changing marginal loss factors
Updated: The animated Gif gives a history of marginal loss factors in Australia over the past decade - and an insight into the evolution of the grid.
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Holy and unholy waters: a tale of two Indian rivers
While the Ganges is sacred but heavily polluted, the Chambal’s ‘cursed’ but pristine waters have proved a blessing for locals
Cold-blooded gharials, a crocodile-like species unique to south Asia, catch the last of the day’s warmth as a setting sun paints the sky crimson above the Chambal river.
Two jackals and a jungle cat scuttle up thorny ravines that box in the expansive blue water, while the orange-beaked Indian skimmer bird glides overhead.
Continue reading...First turbine completed at Tasmania’s Cattle Hill wind farm
First turbine completed at Goldwind's 144MW Cattle Hill wind farm in Tasmania, which will boost the island state's wind power capacity by 50% once complete.
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Global fossil fuel subsidies reach $5.2 trillion, and $29 billion in Australia
IMF says fossil fuel subsidies in Australia amount to nearly $1,200 per person, or a total of $29 billion.
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PM's claim Coalition saved reef from nonexistent 'endangered list' condemned as 'ridiculous'
Scott Morrison says government took reef ‘off the endangered list’ – despite no such list existing
Scott Morrison has credited his government as having “saved” the Great Barrier Reef, a claim rejected as “ridiculous” by scientists, environment groups and the Queensland government.
At the Liberal party’s campaign launch in Melbourne on Sunday, Morrison thanked past environment ministers Greg Hunt and Josh Frydenberg for their work on reef issues.
Continue reading...Australia’s major parties’ climate policies side-by-side
If climate action from every country was as inadequate as Australia’s, the world would be on track for 4°C warming.
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Numurkah solar farm, to help power steel works, Melbourne trams, begins production
Neoen's 100MW Numurkah solar farm, which will help power Sanjeev Gupta's Laverton steel works, and Melbourne's trams, starts production.
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