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Government aim to end plastic pollution undermined by keen support for fracking, says Campaign to Protect Rural England

The push for a large-scale fracking operation in England will fuel the global plastic crisis and undermines the government’s claims that it is tackling the issue, according to a leading charity.

The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) says fracking will not only destroy large areas of the countryside, it will exacerbate the global plastic binge which is already causing widespread damage to oceans, habitats and the human food chain.

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China’s Guangdong province has issued nearly 200,000 carbon credits under its regional programme that supplies the local emissions trading scheme with offsets in the absence of a functional national system.

A nearby town is suing over fears that the land, once home to a nuclear weapons facility, still poses a threat

The nation’s newest national wildlife refuge, filled with swaying prairie grass and home to a herd of elk, is slated to open next month just outside Colorado’s largest city.

But seven Denver metro area school districts have already barred school-sanctioned field trips to the preserve. A top local health official says he would probably never hike there. And a town is suing over what the soil might contain.

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Pangolins should be considered top priority for conservation in China, say scientists studying their decline.

This position is responsible for successful implementation of an international MRV capacity building project with multiple partner and stakeholder organizations.

The UN's CDM Executive Board has registered a Korean-funded emission reduction programme in Bangladesh, a move expected to trigger a wave of fresh investments in schemes that can generate carbon credits eligible for use in the Korean emissions trading scheme.

Australians are angry about electricity prices and both the federal government and opposition are proposing to cap them. Will this approach work, and what are the risks? Guy Dundas, Energy Fellow, Grattan Institute Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

With New South Wales suffering winter bushfires and temperature records tumbling around the globe, our leaders in Canberra have picked a bad time to jettison climate policy in favour of political bickering. Sophie Lewis, ARC DECRA Fellow, UNSW Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Research Fellow, UNSW Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Between 2010 and June 2018, India’s coal-fired power station pipeline saw shelved and cancelled projects totalling a staggering 573GW.

The post India coal project cancellations snowballing appeared first on RenewEconomy.

PRESS RELEASE JA Solar announced that it has supplied 3.2MW of mono PERC modules for Aramex‘s solar plant in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This plant represents the largest single-rooftop solar project in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to date. Located in Dubai Logistics City, the rooftop project was constructed on a turnkey...

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We need genuinely dispatchable power stations to complement the growing capacity of wind and solar PV. Coal and other baseload power stations cannot fill that role.

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Trump's own EPA says his climate plan will worsen health of millions of kids, cost $US50 billion

The post EPA admits Trump would sacrifice thousands of US lives to save a few coal plants appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Evergen, the provider of Australia’s only CSIRO developed intelligent energy management system, has announced that it has commenced a process to secure a new majority shareholder to drive the continued success and expansion of the business in the rapidly evolving energy sector.

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Two small wind farms in Victoria have had the highest capacity factors in the country, and more than 60% in the last two months.

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Sydney Airport signs innovative deal with Origin to supply 75 per cent of its electricity needs through a wind farm in western NSW.

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If this happens, India will become the fourth country to launch humans into space.

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Maggots fed on waste food and larvae used as food on fish farms, promising revolutionary changes

The black soldier fly Hermetia illucens already numbers millions in Britain, but if you meet one in the wild it will have escaped. It is of the newest and most productive creatures farmed in these islands. So far it is being kept in controlled conditions so that its larvae can be fed to a large variety of pets – reptiles and birds, but mostly fish.

The most ambitious projects involve feeding the maggots on tons of waste food and then using the larvae as the main source of protein for fish farms. The attraction is that the larvae grow incredibly fast, gaining up to 5,000 times their own body weight in a couple of weeks. The larvae contain a large array of nutrients absorbed from the food that would otherwise be dumped.

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The $444 million awarded to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation has been criticised as a politically calculated move. But governments have been asking what the reef can do for them ever since colonial times. Rohan James Lloyd, Adjunct Lecturer, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The third quarterly WCI auction of 2018 cleared far above the floor price as buyers snapped up all current and future vintage units available, in line with trader and analyst predictions and quelling any lingering concerns that the linked market’s first sale this year without Ontario would hamper demand.