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Record rooftop solar slashes wholesale energy prices

Energy demand plunged as mild winter temperatures and record high rooftop solar output slashed wholesale electricity and gas prices, the latest data shows.

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Colombia and Mali leading efforts to improve air quality, new ranking finds

Low and middle income countries addressing air pollution in climate plans, while UAE, host of Cop28, among rich nations lagging behind

The Guardian - UK

Major solar panel plant opens in US amid backdrop of industry worries about low-priced Asian imports

A South Korean company has begun production at a huge solar panel factory in Georgia

The Independent UK

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Can a Single Colorado Agency Oversee Both Fossil Fuel and Clean Energy Production?

Tension over energy industry oversight has sparked a rare agreement between climate activists and the oil and gas industry.

Capital & Main

Could ‘marine cloud brightening’ reduce coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef?

Several organisations are seriously considering “marine cloud brightening” as a way to shield parts of the ocean from extreme heat.

The Hindu

Repsol renewables ad banned over ‘large-scale’ oil and gas interests omission

The ad for Repsol’s involvement in renewable hydrogen failed to mention that large-scale oil and gas formed the ‘vast majority’ of its business.

The Independent UK

What is a virtual power plant? An energy expert explains

After nearly two decades of stagnation, U.S. electricity demand is surging, driven by growing numbers of electric cars, data centers and air conditioners in a warming climate. But traditional power plants that generate electricity from coal, natural gas or nuclear energy are retiring faster than new ones are being built…

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Clean energy efforts by utility companies fall far short of America’s goals

It’s past time for utilities to stop making excuses and take seriously our national target of 100% clean energy by 2035, Ben Jealous writes. A new report found dozens of companies still heavily invested in fossil fuels.

Chicago Sun-Times

Winter crop production to fall amid drier conditions

Australia's winter crop production is expected to fall by almost a quarter, after three consecutive years of bumper harvests.

AAP

Rio, BHP warned of investor pressure on steel emissions

Australia's largest diversified miners are being urged to come clean on the greenhouse gas emissions pumped into the atmosphere by the world's steelmakers.

AAP

Santos in the dock over 'clean gas', net-zero by offset

Australia's biggest gas supplier Santos faces many months of costly wrangling with shareholder activists in the federal court over allegations of greenwashing.

AAP

What the extreme fire seasons of 1910 and 2020 – and 2,500 years of forest history – tell us about the future of wildfires in the West

Strong winds blew across mountain slopes after a record-setting warm, dry summer. Small fires began to blow up into huge conflagrations. Towns in crisis scrambled to escape as fires bore down.

The Conversation

Call to snuff out 'dead end' coal, hit net zero by 2040

Australia is lagging frontrunners on ending coal and must join big economies in accelerating efforts to get to net zero emissions, a global scorecard shows.

AAP

PG&E's plan to bury power lines and prevent wildfires faces opposition because of high rates

Pacific Gas & Electric wants to bury many of its power lines in areas threatened by wildfires

The Independent UK

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Salon

Our planet is simply getting too hot

Recent study finds that millions will be displaced as climate change makes their regions too hot to live

The Guardian - UK

Could superpowered plants be the heroes of the climate crisis?

Carbon-guzzling trees and crops, genetically altered to boost photosynthesis and store carbon in the roots, could absorb millions of tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere

The Texas Tribune

In trying to close its coal power plant, Austin encounters obstacles to going green

The city approved a plan in 2020 to shut the Fayette Power Project plant with the aim of eliminating carbon emissions. But political, economic and technological forces have gotten in the way.

The Hindu

Skygazers watch ‘Ring of Fire’ eclipse over Western Hemisphere

A crowd of people wearing protective eyewear gathered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, one of many across the western United States watching as the Moon passed between the Sun and Earth at its furthest point from our planet.

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Proposed golf course subdivision adds millions to Thredbo property portfolio

The mountain village is planning to hedge its bets.

The Hindu

Shadow from fallen Sikkim dam falls on India’s hydroelectric projects in Bhutan

Sikkim’s highest dam was washed away during a flash flood, raising doubts about hydropower projects being developed, now with design changes, by India, abroad

The Independent UK

Visitors to Nevada warned to beware of brain-eating amoeba in hot springs

The mortality rate for those infected is 97 per cent

The Guardian - UK

UK weather: Met Office says unseasonal warm spell to end this weekend

Heavy rain forecast in the south with parts of rural and northern Scotland expected to have overnight snow

The Hindu

Vellore, nearby districts experience dip in temperature, misty mornings

Mist and haze enveloped Vellore and nearby districts for the past few days

The Independent UK

US oil production hits all-time high, conflicting with efforts to cut heat-trapping pollution

United States domestic oil production has hit an all-time high last week, contrasting with efforts to slice heat-trapping carbon emissions by the Biden administration and world leaders

The Independent UK

Biden awards $7 billion for 'clean hydrogen' hubs across the country to help replace fossil fuels

The Biden administration has selected clean-energy projects from Pennsylvania to California for a $7 billion program to kickstart development and production of hydrogen fuel, a key component of President Joe Biden’s agenda to slow climate change

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