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Once fully operational its 330,000 photovoltaic cells will generate enough power to supply 65,000 Australian homes.

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Despite the scientific evidence, there are still nations that are either not convinced of the need to reduce emissions, or are unwilling to do so. But real demand for change is growing at ground level. Consumers around the world are paying greater attention to the environment and the climate, and making changes to their own lifestyles. They are also starting to ask uncomfortable questions of the businesses that supply them.

Corinda State High School is thinking globally by acting locally

The Supervising Scientist Branch has now released their 2017-18 Annual Technical Report. This report provides a summary of the research, monitoring, assessment and communication work of the Branch throughout 2017-18.

Designing Climate Solutions: A Policy Guide for Low-Carbon Energy combines the latest research and analysis on low-carbon energy solutions from electric vehicles to renewable energy. It is the first book to identify which specific policies, applied to the top 20 most-emitting countries, can have the largest potential impact to reduce emissions enough for a 50% chance of keeping global warming to a safe level.

You've washed your hands in a public bathroom, now how do you dry them? Which way's best for the environment — and you?

Companies regulated by Europe's carbon market exchanged roughly twice as many Kyoto credits for compliance-eligible EU Allowances over the last six months as they did during the same period in 2017.

The African big-headed ant is listed among the world's worst 100 pests and, once established, can reduce indigenous species numbers by up to 85 per cent.

Oregon regulators should consider ending complementary GHG reduction policies if the state wants to promote a cost-effective and environmentally-sound cap-and-trade programme in the future, according to a new study from a Harvard professor and an economic consultant.

Pharmaceuticals were found in every invertebrate sampled from six Melbourne streams - including a waterway in a national park. Erinn Richmond, Research Fellow, School of Chemistry, Monash University Mike Grace, Associate Professor, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

EU carbon continued to recover from late October’s collapse on Tuesday, with a strong auction result helping prices bust through several more technical levels to reach a six-day high near €18.

Action launched in Liverpool against Anglo-Australian mining company after 2015 tragedy that killed 19 people

The worst environmental disaster in Brazil’s history has triggered one of the biggest legal claims ever filed in a British court.

The Anglo-Australian mining company BHP Billiton is being sued for about £5bn by Brazilian victims of the Samarco dam collapse in Mariana three years ago.

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The cost of bacon and sausages would double if the harm they cause to people’s health was taken into account

Taxing red meat would save many lives and raise billions to pay for healthcare, according to new research. It found the cost of processed meat such as bacon and sausages would double if the harm they cause to people’s health was taken into account.

Governments already tax harmful products to reduce their consumption, such as sugar, alcohol and tobacco. With growing evidence of the health and environmental damage resulting from red meat, some experts now believe a “sin tax” on beef, lamb and pork is inevitable in the longer term.

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The presence of wind turbines can reduce the number of birds and lizards in an area, a new study has found. Should we start tearing the farms down?

Name: wind turbines.

Age: Early examples date to the 7th century.

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Europe is sending up a front-line weather satellite containing components made over a decade ago.

Plans for a road through wildlife-rich areas break EU laws and send a worrying message ahead of Brexit, say MEPs

Government plans to build an Oxford-Cambridge motorway over some of the UK’s most biodiverse nature reserves break EU laws and should be put on hold, according to a cross-party group of MEPs.

Up to a million homes could be built in the planned conurbation link-up which would carve across some of the UK’s richest floodplain habitats such as the Otmoor Basin and Bernwood forest.

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Renewable capacity has tripled in past five years, even faster growth than the ‘dash for gas’ of the 1990s

The capacity of renewable energy has overtaken that of fossil fuels in the UK for the first time, in a milestone that experts said would have been unthinkable a few years ago.

In the past five years, the amount of renewable capacity has tripled while fossil fuels’ has fallen by one-third, as power stations reached the end of their life or became uneconomic.

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Three Mongolian carbon offset projects have been issued credits under Japan’s Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), nearly doubling the amount of credits generated so far, although the Japanese government retained the majority of the offsets.

The ozone layer is finally healing from damage humans have caused, according to the United Nations.

Tesla and Genex push for rule changes that would allow battery and pumped hydro storage to be properly paired with wind and solar farms.

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