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WestWind Energy's plans to build an 800MW wind farm in Victoria – potentially the largest in the Southern Hemisphere – win state government planning approval.

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Ministers hail the UK's "world leading" pollution plan, but green groups call it a missed opportunity.

What can spending time in nature in search of wild trout teach us about ourselves, our mates and our relationship with the environment?

Conservation groups say garbage has been left uncollected and natural resources have been damaged by unsupervised tourists.

Vets treat largely treat injured wildlife for free, whenever they have time. Bronwyn Orr, Veterinarian and PhD candidate, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson has repeated remarks about race and intelligence.

Readers, who pressed for the change, can compost or put the new packaging in their food waste bin.

With the fashion industry’s environmental impact under scrutiny, there’s a move to eschew new stuff and wear what you already own

Splashed out in the sales? Cashed in your Christmas gift cards? The average Briton spends more than £1,000 on new clothes and shoes each year, according to the statistics agency Eurostat – and many are shelling out much, much more. But with a focus now on the environmental impact of the fashion industry, some of the bloggers, vloggers and influencers who cut their teeth sharing details of an endless array of new clothes and products, are changing tack – enter the “no-buy” movement.

The idea is simple: instead of buying new clothes or beauty products, you make a commitment to use the things you already own. Some people, such as the beauty blogger Hannah Louise Poston, sign up to a “no-buy year” – and document their progress in much the same way that they once tracked their purchases. Others pledge not to buy for a few weeks or months or opt for “low-buy” options with a strict spending cap. A subreddit thread named MakeupRehab, offering tips and support for those undertaking not to buy new products, now has more than 50,000 subscribers.

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The sustainable finance market surged in 2018, with a record $247 billion worth of sustainability-themed debt instruments raised during the year, according to research company BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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The ACT’s highly successful Energy Efficiency Improvement Scheme will be expanded to include several new programs and will be extended to 2030, Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability Shane Rattenbury announced today.

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If a clock ticks for 10,000 years will anybody be there to hear it? Long term thinking...come on...let's do this.

Claire and Emily run a hub that empowers people to turn their old clothes into new ones.

The former Cambridge professor had received the highest honour in his subject - a Fields Medal.

Spektr-R has stopped receiving commands from Earth, Russian astrophysicists say.

Interior department continues processing permits and moves forward with controversial plan to increase drilling in the Arctic

Three weeks into the longest US government shutdown in history, many important government services have been paused – but the Trump administration has continued efforts to expand oil drilling.

Despite the shutdown directive, which has seen national park staff furloughed and the parks suffering from neglect, the interior department has continued processing oil drilling permits and applications. It has also moved forward with a controversial plan to increase drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A).

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Distinguished Professor Jamie Kirkpatrick has been crawling across lawns for more than 70 years, it's just that this one is on the top of a mountain and is full of plants from the cretaceous.[Repeat]

The northeast US RGGI market could see allowance supply slashed by 98 million tonnes over the course of post-2020 programme if it expands to include New Jersey and Virginia, according to new analysis commissioned by the former.

The amount of California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits transferred increased by 50% last year, as December set new records for average prices and total volume transacted, according to state data.

Historian Grace Karskens on reconnecting the early history of the Hawkesbury-Nepean River with the landscape.