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Renewables are cheap. So why isn’t your power bill falling?

Power prices are set to go up again even though renewables now account for 40% of the electricity in Australia’s main grid – close to quadruple the clean power we had just 15 years ago. How can that be, given renewables are the cheapest form of newly built power generation?

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Country diary: How can a bird appear so fast and so slow at the same time?

Blackclough, Derbyshire: Golden plovers are stunning to watch, and known for their sparkling appearance in flight – but they set the close observer a conundrum as well

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‘Heartbreaking’: poisoning suspected after mass deaths of more than 200 little corellas in Newcastle

Hunter Wildlife Rescue started receiving numerous reports of sick and dead birds on Monday, centred on the suburbs Hamilton and Carrington

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Conservative party to ditch commitment to net zero in UK by 2050

Break in cross-party consensus on issue to be announced on Tuesday

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Why build nuclear power in place of old coal, when you could have pumped hydropower instead?

Australia’s energy policy would take a sharp turn if the Coalition wins the upcoming federal election. A Dutton government would seek to build seven nuclear power plants at the sites of old coal-fired power stations.

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Plans to link electricity bills to where you live are unlikely to bring down prices – and that’s a big problem for net zero

A proposed reform to the way electricity is priced in Britain could see households pay a different bill based on their postcode.

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Ian Bullock obituary

Other lives: Conservationist who spent 25 years as a warden with the RSPB and was an expert guide on ecotourism tours

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Warming Paris region faces €2.5bn bill from future drought crises

Severe drought episodes could cost Paris and its surrounding areas up to €2.5 billion in economic damage by the end of the century, a report published Monday by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warned.

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Cop30 in talks to hire PR firm that worked for lobby seeking weaker Amazon protections

Revealed: Edelman worked for Brazilian trade group accused of pushing for environmental rollbacks in Amazon

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Storrington in West Sussex named UK’s first European stork village

Village joins continental network alongside nearby Knepp estate, as birds previously extinct in Britain flourish

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The Living Mountain: why a second world war meditation on nature’s fragility and wonder is still relevant today

Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain is not a book about conquering peaks or mapping uncharted terrain. It is instead a deeply felt, poetic encounter with the Cairngorms.

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Lost fynbos seeds from underground ‘time capsules’ in South Africa can grow again – new study

Underground seed banks in South Africa that date back over 130 years have been found to contain fynbos seeds that are alive. These seed banks are natural storage areas in the soil where certain plants preserve their seeds.

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The US military has cared about climate change since the dawn of the Cold War – for good reason

In 1957, Hollywood released “The Deadly Mantis,” a B-grade monster movie starring a praying mantis of nightmare proportions. Its premise: Melting Arctic ice has released a very hungry, million-year-old megabug, and scientists and the U.S. military will have to stop it.

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From sewage and scum to swimming in ‘blue gold’: how Switzerland transformed its rivers

In the 1960s, the Swiss had some of the dirtiest water in Europe. Now, their cities boast pristine rivers and lakes – and other countries are looking to follow their lead

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Weather tracker: deadly storms in US and rain hits Australian Grand Prix

At least 34 people killed as storms sweep midwest and southern states, while rain causes chaos in Melbourne race

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Chewing gum is plastic pollution, not a litter problem

Thousands of tonnes of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year … from our mouths. Most chewing gum on sale is made from a variety of oil-based synthetic rubbers – similar to the plastic material used in car tyres.

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Country diary: These black-headed gulls look like tired teenagers – for good reason

River Lagan, Belfast: Going through puberty is an exhausting business, but that is effectively what our birds are doing this time of year

Al Jazeera

Swallowed by the sea, Pakistan’s Indus delta now threatened by canals

Residents say construction of six new canals over Indus River will turn more lands barren and prone to be lost to sea.

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Climate activists to plead not guilty en masse under NSW’s controversial anti-protest laws

Rising Tide campaigners were arrested at Newcastle’s coal port in late 2024 after using kayaks and rafts to protest at facility

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Anti-salmon protest fills beach amid mass farm deaths

More than one thousand people have protested at a remote beach in opposition to salmon farms which have experienced unprecedented mass deaths.

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Hundreds of livestock breeds have gone extinct – but some Australian farmers are keeping endangered breeds alive

It took thousands of years to develop the world’s extraordinary range of domesticated farm animals – an estimated 8,800 livestock breeds across 38 farmed species.

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National parks should unite, not divide, communities

Letter: Dr Rose O’Neill of the Campaign for National Parks responds to an article on the controversy over Scotland’s new national park in Galloway

The Conversation

Email signatures are harming the planet and could cost people their lives — it’s time to stop using them

The use of information technology (IT) has significant environmental and social impacts, including human mortality from climate change. One striking example is the carbon emissions and impacts associated with digital communication.

Al Jazeera

At least 32 dead as tornadoes sweep through parts of US

Over 185,000 households and businesses without electricity across six US states in the wake of the deadly tornadoes.

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Let juries judge disruptive protesters like Just Stop Oil on their integrity – expert view

The UK Court of Appeal recently ruled on an appeal brought by 16 environmental activists serving prison sentences for planning or participating in a series of disruptive non-violent protests.

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