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Elon Musk lets his "super kick-ass" AI technology out of the bag, bringing automated driving a step closer.

Money was awarded at a meeting with Malcolm Turnbull and Josh Frydenberg, with no tender process

Labor has called for a $444m government grant to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation to be returned.

It comes after the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, defended the decision to award the money to the small private foundation and said it had been subject to “a very thorough process”.

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Two Norwegians conduct a race, or more truthfully an economy trial, between a Hyundai Kona Electric and a Tesla Model X, using different charging networks.

This year alone corporations around the world have purchased 7.2 GW worth of clean energy, surpassing 2017’s 5.4 GW, which is a record in itself.

The deadly Mendocino complex fire in the north may be the second-largest in state history

Plumes of smoke towered over flame-engulfed mountains in northern California on Monday as firefighters grappled with what may be, by some measures, the second-largest wildfire in state history.

At a community hall in a small farming community 121 miles north-east of San Francisco, Renato Lira, an American Red Cross disaster services worker, looked through photos on his phone of the fire he had just driven through to set up an evacuation center. As he flicked, his screen turned red.

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Management at a speculative gold mining company would blush at some of the outrageous claims made in the modelling the ESB “leans heavily on” to justify the NEG.

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Agriculture minister David Littleproud tells ABC audience he doesn’t ‘give a rats’ whether climate change is man-made

The agriculture minister says linking the drought affecting much of Australia to man-made climate change is a “big call” and he does not “give a rats if it’s man-made or not”.

David Littleproud made the comment on the ABC’s Q&A program on Monday, which was filmed in Lismore in the northern rivers region of New South Wales. His comment was booed by the audience.

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New York’s Independent System Operator (NYISO) on Friday published its draft recommendations for adding a carbon price to the state’s wholesale power markets next decade that would deduct the cost of RGGI allowances purchased at quarterly auctions.

The National Energy Guarantee faces a crunch test this week. And if the climate wars of the past few decades are any guide, Australian policies more often sink than swim when the waters get choppy. Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Researchers warn that even limited climate warming could trigger conditions not seen in a million years.

Project already showing signs of deterioration months after it was officially completed

A multimillion-pound flood defence project protecting thousands of homes has started to deteriorate just months after it was unveiled.

Engineers from a construction company were on Monday accused by local councillors of botching the four-year scheme in Blackpool, which cost £27.1m.

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Leading scientists warn that passing such a point would make efforts to reduce emissions increasingly futile

A domino-like cascade of melting ice, warming seas, shifting currents and dying forests could tilt the Earth into a “hothouse” state beyond which human efforts to reduce emissions will be increasingly futile, a group of leading climate scientists has warned.

This grim prospect is sketched out in a journal paper that considers the combined consequences of 10 climate change processes, including the release of methane trapped in Siberian permafrost and the impact of melting ice in Greenland on the Antarctic.

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EU carbon prices dipped slightly on Monday but kept within reach of last week's seven-year high as observers expect further gains this week to push carbon above €18.

Quebec’s environment ministry announced on Friday that the province will hold its second anticipated sale of carbon units by mutual agreement on Oct. 3, giving firms covered under the province’s cap-and-trade programme an additional opportunity meet the scheme’s upcoming compliance deadline.

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When the Bloodhound supersonic car attempts to break the land speed record, managing heat around the vehicle is going to be important.

Three Australian state governments on Monday refused to commit to backing the National Energy Guarantee (NEG) proposal ahead of this week's crunch meeting, even as federal Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg accused them of “politicking and posturing”.

The New York Times magazine blames ‘human nature,’ but the true culprits have already been fingered

Last week’s issue of the New York Times magazine was devoted to a single story by Nathaniel Rich that explored how close we came to an international climate agreement in 1989, and why we failed. The piece is worth reading – it’s a well-told, mostly accurate, and very informative story about a key decade in climate science and policy history. But sadly, it explicitly excuses the key players responsible for our continued failure.

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The Greens are calling for all state and territory governments to reject the National Energy Agreement.