Energy
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Four visionary renewable energy projects that could pay off for AustraliaSugarcane waste, drones, solar-powered alumina refining and strata-owned solar: which Arena R&D projects could make a big difference to Australia’s energy sector?
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Angela Merkel strikes deal with German states to put brakes on green energyPact addresses concerns that burgeoning output from renewables is putting strain on electricity grid and pushing up prices
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Q&A;: Di Natale decries major parties' support for coalmines as 'great tragedy' – videoGreens leader criticises Labor and the Coalition for commitments to new coalmines, accusing them of taking huge donations from the fossil fuel lobby and harming the future of renewables on ABC’s Q&A program on Monday.
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Josh Frydenberg targets Labor candidates opposed to new coalminesResources minister says candidates are challenging Bill Shorten’s authority on coal and Adani’s Carmichael mine
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Most voters support transition to 100% renewable energy, says Australia InstitutePolling indicates 71% would be more likely to vote for a party that supported distributed small-scale solar and storage
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EDF's Hinkley Point deal over radioactive waste sparks angerExpert criticises ministers over refusal to disclose agreement with energy supplier for planned nuclear plant
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Data is the secret weapon in the battle to save Australia's urban forestsAs cities expand and trees are sacrificed for housing and infrastructure, the cost of losing green spaces grows
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How fracking can contribute to climate changeWorld pollutionwatch Leakage of natural gas from drilling and pipework means more methane is entering the atmosphere
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Women are ready to take on frackingLetters: Even if we didn’t get to Greenham Common, there are quite a lot of us who might make up for it in Kirby Misperton, Preston New Road, or Roseacre Wood
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How a Nottinghamshire hamlet wages quiet battle against frackingAfter North Yorkshire allows test drilling, villagers in Misson are determined to stop the same happening in former bomber pilot testing ground
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Construction of world's largest dam in DR Congo could begin within monthsMega dam on Congo river to produce electricity equal to 20 large nuclear power stations, but critics say it will displace 60,000 people and wreck the ecosystem
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François Hollande resists union pressure to abandon labour reformsNeither French president nor unions show any sign of budging as strikes, fuel blockades and petrol shortages continue
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G7 nations pledge to end fossil fuel subsidies by 2025Leaders of the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the EU urge all countries to join them in eliminating support for coal, oil and gas in a decade
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Obama on Hiroshima: 'death fell from the sky'Donald Trump crosses threshold to claim Republican nomination; another Berkeley student details sexual harassment; antibiotic resistance gene discovered in woman
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Still stonewalling, the oil giant banned the Guardian from its AGM this week. But even its shareholders are starting to hear the gale-force winds blowing outsideExxonMobil is in its climate change bunker and won’t let reality in
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Shell says it will limit solar investment until it proves profitableChief executive Ben van Beurden tells shareholders the firm wants to gradually increase its operations in clean energy
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Dong Energy IPO to value windfarm operator at £11bnDanish firm that is major investor in UK offshore windfarms expects to sell up to 17% of shares in year’s biggest float so far
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Niger Delta Avengers militants shut down Chevron oil facilityString of attacks by group – who claim to fight for environment and local people – have pushed down Nigeria’s oil output
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Donald Trump wants to build a wall – to save his golf course from global warmingDana Nuccitelli: On climate change, is Trump uninformed, or playing his voters?
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Australia's dirtiest power station may be closed or sold, French owner saysEngie tells French senate committee that it plans to withdraw from coal-fired power generation and is looking at possible shutdown of Victoria’s Hazelwood power station
Keep it in the ground Sweden should keep coal in the ground, not sell it off