The risks and rewards of aluminium in solar panels
Aluminium could become a big PV polluter, but it’s also easy to recycle.
As the price of solar power plummets, the uptake of solar panels and rooftop solar is booming. The more this surge ac...
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What goes into the carbon calculator black box?
Decided to use an online carbon calculator to review your lifestyle choices? Best pop some ginger...
My household, of two adults, a toddler and two cats, holds a confusing position in the world: we are either climate v...
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Empowering our energy future
Australia has the resources to lead the world in battery production. If we did more than merely e...
In the country I come from, Iran, I found myself surrounded at an early age by successful engineers in my family and ...
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The Australian scientists greening ammonia for a sustainable future
New technology shows the promise of an energy revolution.
Monash University has exclusively licensed a new green ammonia technology to start-up Jupiter Ionics, a company co-fo...
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Sonic cleanup: using sound to capture ocean microplastics
A new, filter-free method of separating microplastics from seawater has been developed in Indonesia.
Researchers in Indonesia have developed an innovative way to remove microplastics from water without the need for exp...
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Winded: what becomes of decommissioned wind turbines?
How renewable are the renewables? As first-generation turbines approach the end of their lives, a...
In October 1993, Australia’s first commercial wind farm of note was constructed at Ten Mile Lagoon, west of Esperance...
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Are Climate Action Teams the future of global emissions reductions?
New research reveals the economic viability of developing and developed countries partnering to r...
Chile, New Zealand and Switzerland may be half a world apart geographically, but researchers say they share many of t...
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Supply chain linked: ACT’s bold plan to reduce its emissions for everything, everywhere
The Australian Capital Territory has decided to address the carbon emissions that most climate co...
There has been a flurry of climate commitments made in recent years, with net zero targets bandied about like 2050 is...
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Unmasking the problem of COVID litter
Study finds an over 80-fold increase in littered masks during the pandemic.
An international team of researchers has confirmed what has been obvious to the eye – around the world, disposable ma...
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Future seas
To properly manage our oceans, we need to come together and agree on what we want them to look li...
I knew I wanted to be a marine biologist from the age of 11. I'd gone to an aquarium with my parents and there was so...
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Charting a course to zero emissions: the challenge for global shipping
For decades countries have shirked responsibility for emissions from global shipping. Now that in...
On the sidelines at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, the conference billed as the world’s ‘last best chance’ to a...
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A stubborn optimist’s view from COP26
The world of finance is making sense of climate change – and vice versa.
The world has been to Glasgow and returned. Almost 200 nations and 120 heads of state attended COP26, but they weren’...