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Work begins on Risen Energy's 121MW Yarranlea Solar Farm, west of Toowoomba, which is going ahead without a PPA.

Exclusive: Study finds 12,000 items worth $4m, including ivory, live orangutans and a huge number of reptiles and birds for the pet trade

The online sale of endangered and threatened wildlife is rife across Europe, a new investigation has revealed, ranging from live cheetahs, orangutans and bears to ivory, polar bear skins and many live reptiles and birds.

Researchers from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (Ifaw) spent six weeks tracking adverts on 100 online marketplaces in four countries, the UK, Germany, France and Russia. They found more than 5,000 adverts offering to sell almost 12,000 items, worth $4m (£3m) in total. All the specimens were species in which trade is restricted or banned by the global Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species.

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Sweden's Vattenfall connects 500 BMW i3 batteries to 228MW wind farm in South Wales, in "UK’s largest" co-located onshore wind and battery project.

US report demonstrates how renewable and distributed energy resources can provide the same grid services as gas generators – and avoid $1 trillion of new plant costs.

Debate over whether we can run electric grids on 100% renewables in coming decades misses a key point: many countries and regions are already there.

The Department is working to ensure that microbeads in personal care and cosmetic products are phased out by July 2018 and has published assessments on the sale of microbead-containing products in Australia and industry progress toward the phase...

The Department is working to ensure that microbeads in personal care and cosmetic products are phased out by July 2018 and has published assessments on the sale of microbead-containing products in Australia and industry progress toward the phase...

The Department is working to ensure that microbeads in personal care and cosmetic products are phased out by July 2018 and has published assessments on the sale of microbead-containing products in Australia and industry progress toward the phase...

The Department is working to ensure that microbeads in personal care and cosmetic products are phased out by July 2018 and has published assessments on the sale of microbead-containing products in Australia and industry progress toward the phase...

Many fruits, nuts and other crops rely on bees to pollinate their flowers at just the right time of year. Many farmers rent bees to get the job done at pollination time. Manu Saunders, Research fellow, University of New England Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Gupta says GFG Alliance could build 10GW of large scale in Australia, as well as make EVs, and use car batteries for household storage.

"Unsustainable" levels of extraction plus climate change could see water supply deficits across England by 2050.

Making sense of terms like vog, laze and pahoehoe with the help of volcanologist Evgenia Ilyinskaya.

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The Canadian Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) released an expanded assessment on Tuesday to support its recent forecast of how a federal carbon levy will impact the country’s GDP, though the analysis appeared somewhat extreme and binary in nature and did not account for a number of realities across Canada's existing pricing patchwork.

The largest organised labour group in Washington came up short of formally backing the state’s carbon tax ballot initiative, signalling a potential gap in support ahead of the July filing deadline.

A pair of Canada lynx have been caught on camera "screaming" at each other.

The joint US-German Grace satellites go into orbit to monitor Earth's most important resource.

The joint US-German Grace satellites go into orbit to monitor Earth's most important resource.

European carbon extended the previous session’s seven-year high on Tuesday, crossing the €16 mark for the first time since June 2011 following a strong auction, though some traders are growing increasingly concerned that the large gains will lead to a sudden price collapse.