Energy
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Letters: The very promise of payment for householders threatened by fracking constitutes a bribe, which is both wrong in principle and an exploitable precedent for antisocial actions
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Environment 360: The European Union’s push away from fossil fuels toward renewables, along with falling costs, has seen offshore wind thrive with turbines being installed from the Irish to the Baltic Seas
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The Ogoni leader and son of renowned Niger delta environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa has died from a stroke in London, aged 47
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Andrew Simms: Choosing the best possible future means considering radical scenarios that align energy use and industry with climate action
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Energy market operator says nine of 13 windfarms ‘tripped’ because their settings disconnected them from the grid after transmission lines were blown over
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Deals worth millions of pounds to help keep UK’s lights on over 15-year period spark anger among environmental groups
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Scientists create the highest plasma pressure ever recorded with the Alcator C-Mod reactor in a breakthrough for clean energy technology
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The Coalition prepares to bring registered organisations bill to crack down on unions while the windfarm commissioner will appear before Senate estimates. As it happened
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Political science With entry charges and oil sponsorship, the Science Museum has lost its way
Chris GarrardWonderlab, the new interactive gallery for children at the Science Museum, is a mess of ethical and science communication contradictions.
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Ryuichi Yoneyama, the newly elected governor of Niigata, says he will not restart Kashiwazaki-Kariwa power station shut down after Fukushima
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The treasurer said it was China, rather than then treasurer Wayne Swan, who saved Australia from the global financial crisis. Who will he credit this time?
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Committee urges investment in batteries and smart demand technologies to ensure energy supply as old coal and nuclear power stations close
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Almost two-thirds of proposed areas have higher biodiversity, valuable for functions such as pollination and pest control, analysis shows
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Profit, pollution, civil unrest and contact lenses: oil seeps its way into the lives of millions. It’s a big issue – so big that Grid Iron theatre’s new theatre work is set in a dockside warehouse
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Extra power will mean lights will not go out this winter, says firm that operates UK’s electricity transmission network
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High prices for exports such as coking coal will boost the country’s terms of trade but global coal production has peaked and prices are unlikely to stay high
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Planet Oz We should be putting the brake on the Carmichael coalmine, not hitting the accelerator
Graham ReadfearnThe Paris climate deal should be a signal to cut fossil fuel use, rather than an excuse to mine more coal -
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Making heritage buildings sustainable is just as important as preserving their history – and they can offer energy-efficiency lessons of their own
Before the Flood review – DiCaprio's level-headed climate change doc