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Questacon budget boost to exceed fossil fuel funding gap

$10 million delivered over two years more than covers the loss of Shell in December and Inpex in June next year, as the contracts come to an end.

The Canberra Times

BoM boss apologises for rebranding debacle and says there are ‘significant learnings’ for bureau

Andrew Johnson tells Senate hearing ‘image rebrand’ followed research suggesting elderly and new immigrants were confused by term BoM

The Guardian - AU

Bureau of Meteorology boss apologises

The head of the Bureau of Meteorology has apologised for causing confusion and uncertainty after the agency asked media to refer to it as "the bureau".

AAP

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Jim Chalmers just handed down his first federal budget, but did he get his facts straight?

Did the Treasurer get his facts straight in Labor's first budget speech in a decade? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

ABC News

You might think solar panels have been perfected – but we can still make them even better and cheaper

The cost of turning sunlight into electricity has fallen more than 90% over the last decade. Solar is now the cheapest form of newly built energy generation.

The Conversation

CSIRO accused of failing to disclose GISERA gas industry links in fracking information sheets

The information sheets included a recently-deleted statement that methane "may play a role" in climate change, which independent Senator David Pocock says is "straight out of the fossil fuel industry misinformation guide".

ABC News

CSIRO aims to ‘accelerate commercialism’ in new strategy as staff decry scientific diversion

Exclusive: government body denies ‘business-over-science’ approach but failed to inform federal minister of change in focus

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Have you seen all the pretty roadside weeds?

They are a lovely by-product of all the rain

The Canberra Times

CSIRO upgrades quantum tech outlook to $6b

The national science agency has upgraded the growth outlook for quantum technology and expects Australia to grab a bit of the global sector.

AAP

Science minister warns CSIRO against ‘renting out’ its brand to giant gas companies

Ed Husic says science agency should focus efforts elsewhere after ‘very major’ gas company asked it to support bid for net zero emissions

The Guardian - AU

CSIRO abruptly scraps globally recognised climate forecast program

Exclusive: Funding halted from June 2021 without fanfare and after science agency reportedly spent $15m on teams of scientists

The Guardian - AU

New study reveals ‘staggering’ scale of lost fishing gear drifting in Earth’s oceans

Lost nets, lines and hooks trap wildlife for years as they float in the ocean, sink to the bottom or are washed ashore

The Guardian - AU

The fascinating life of Canberra's canny Dawn Waterhouse

Her husband Doug Waterhouse invented the fly repellent that became Aerogard

The Canberra Times

East Antarctic glacier melting at 70.8bn tonnes a year due to warm sea water

Denman glacier in remote part of the continent could become unstable, possibly contributing to more sea level rise than predicted

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Australia eyes 'front of the quantum pack'

Federal Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic is "utterly obsessed" with what Australia can do as a global leader in quantum computing.

The Conversation

740,000km of fishing line and 14 billion hooks: we reveal just how much fishing gear is lost at sea each year

Two per cent of all fishing gear used worldwide ends up polluting the oceans, our new research finds. To put that into perspective, the amount of longline fishing gear littering the ocean each year can circle the Earth more than 18 times.

The Guardian - AU

Facts take a backseat in CSIRO fracking fact sheets partly funded by the gas industry

Science body’s information on shale gas fracking treads lightly when it comes to naming methane’s role in global heating, despite it being second only to CO2

AAP

CSIRO's $90m mission towards net zero

CSIRO will spend $90 million to ensure local communities - including farmers, miners and steelmakers - aren't left behind in the quest for net-zero emissions.

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The Canberra Times

CSIRO developing roadmaps for regions to thrive in low-emission economy

The Towards Net Zero Mission will use science to support Australias regions and hard-to-abate industries, with the aim of supporting a profitable and sustainable transition to a low-emissions economy.

AAP

Aussie voyage to the unknown

Australian scientists have embarked on a deep sea voyage exploring vast undersea mountains in the remote waters off Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) islands.

The Guardian - AU

Peter Dutton says Labor’s renewable energy overhaul plan ‘never going to be realised’

Opposition leader tells Andrew Bolt Australia needs to consider nuclear reactors and calls on Tim Flannery to apologise

ABC News

South-west Victorian coastline picked as possible home of wave energy technology

Wave energy could bring down the price of renewable electricity in the future and decrease dependency on battery storage, a company that has completed a report for the CSIRO says.

ABC News

Concentrated solar thermal power touted as part of Queensland's clean energy future

An Australian company says its technology can help solve the problem of around-the-clock clean energy.

The Guardian - AU

Wave energy machines on Australian south coast would slash renewable energy costs, CSIRO says

Report commissioned by Wave Swell Energy says the machines would make a future clean electricity grid more stable and more reliable

The Conversation

The magnificent Lake Eyre Basin is threatened by 831 oil and gas wells – and more are planned. Is that what Australians really want?

The heart-shaped Lake Eyre Basin covers about one-sixth of Australia. It contains one of the few remaining pristine river systems in the world.

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