The Sydney Morning Herald

Australian businesses will be encouraged to invest in plug-in hybrid and electric car fleets in an attempt to increase private uptake by flooding the second-hand market with new vehicle technologies at lower prices.

Yahoo News

Dozens of environmental groups have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling for a public inquiry into plans for a new coal mine in Cumbria.

The Canberra Times

Dr Peter McCawley recently wrote that, "in Canberra, as in Washington, much depends on understanding power: knowing where to hunt for it, being able to grab or guide it, and knowing when to seize the chance to command and control."

Reneweconomy

Sitting across several time-zones can be relatively disorienting. I follow climate and energy news across Europe, Asia, North America and Australia, and the differences in pace are astonishing. It feels like every single day, particularly in Europe and America, there is something new – and it’s usually something substantial.

Yahoo News

The Bob Brown Foundation is taking its legal battle to stop native forest logging in Tasmania to the High Court.

Money Management

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has outlined that managing climate-related risk is a key director responsibility.

Insurance Business

The recent Perth bushfire has highlighted an urgent need to fix Australia’s underinsurance problem.

ABC News

Environmentalists have alleged Bravus (formerly known as Adani) failed to properly manage erosion at its inland rail project, potentially contaminating waterways, according to a complaint made to Queensland's Department of Environment and Science.

The Sydney Morning Herald

The world’s largest grid-scale solar battery, with a potential capacity of 1200 megawatts – about eight times the size of the South Australian big battery – is to be built in the NSW Hunter Valley at Kurri Kurri, 35 kilometres north-west of Newcastle.

Utility Magazine

The way we generate, use and store energy is changing. As the world moves towards more renewable energy options, and large traditional power generators are retiring, maintaining the balance between supply and demand at all times is crucial to preventing power outages. One way communities and utilities are addressing this issue is with virtual power plants (VPPs). But what exactly are VPPs? Here we explore how VPPs can act as a substitute for conventional dispatchable power plants and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon future.

ABC News

Nudibranchs come in a range of dazzling colours and unusual shapes, and in an annual census they will again indicate the health of our environment.

Cosmos

New Zealand’s use of toxic aerial baits to rid the islands of invasive mammal predators has attracted claims that forests “fall silent”, with birdsong declines after each operation.

Yahoo News

Each year feral cats running rampant across Australia are wiping out native animals at a rate equivalent to last summer's bushfire disaster.

ABC News

A video from the 1980s has those living through the eastern states' current mouse plague twitchy about the 2021 pest invasion worsening if weather conditions continue.

The Conversation

February has already been a bad month for Perth. Bushfire has destroyed 81 homes and burned more than 10,000 hectares northeast of the city. Residents in the midst of a COVID-19 lockdown were told to abandon their homes and seek shelter as the bushfire raged.

The Canberra Times

The events of 18 years ago when lightning struck a dead tree near McIntyre's Hut in the Brindabella Valley and was a key generator for the ACT's 2003 wildfires were well-recalled by Peter Dunn as he urged priority given to a fast-strike response to bushfires.

ABC News

Tasmania's second-largest salmon company has voiced strong opposition to a competitor's expansion into Storm Bay over biosecurity concerns, warning approval would threaten the sustainability of all three salmon producers, documents obtained by the ABC reveal.

ABC News

The NSW Independent Planning Commission has rejected the proposed expansion of a coal mine beneath Sydney's drinking water catchment, finding the adverse environmental impacts would be long-term and irreversible.

ABC News

Human-generated noise pollution is increasingly dominating our oceans and drowning out marine life, with potentially negative consequences for our marine ecosystems.

The Newcastle Herald

A MINE near Muswellbrook has been fined $15,000 over an "offensive and vile smelling blast", the NSW Environment Protection Authority has confirmed.

9 News

Severe weather warnings are in place for several states with heavy rain, damaging winds and severe thunderstorms forecast to lash large parts of the country today.

The Guardian

In the Trump era, journalists didn’t have to speculate about what a US president said to an Australian prime minister during a private phone call. Famously, the entire transcript of a fraught conversation between Donald Trump and Malcolm Turnbull in 2017 was leaked.

7 News

Queensland's opposition are urging the premier to directly intervene in the New Acland coalmine expansion approval process to end ongoing uncertainty about the project.

Sky News Australia

Sky News host Cory Bernardi says the new US Climate Envoy John Kerry is completely out of touch with the common man because he is “blinded by ideology”.

The Mercury

Is there an outcome more emblematic of the Tasmanian inability to find common ground than spending two decades fighting a battle between conservation and forestry and ending up with poorer outcomes for both? asks Mercury political editor David Killick

Reneweconomy

ASX-listed lithium producer Vulcan Resources will raise $120 million in a new share placement, as the company progresses plans to develop one of Europe’s first major sources of lithium to meet surging demand from automakers shifting to electric vehicles.

The Conversation

More than 70 homes were destroyed by bushfires in Western Australia this week, leaving those affected facing enormous costs. After disasters like these, insurance is not always there as needed — or as expected.

Investor Daily

Global asset manager Aviva Investors has rolled out a new climate transition program aimed at large carbon emitters, threatening to dump the companies if they do not comply.

The Age

An investment splurge in Australian carbon credits kicked off this week when Prime Minister Scott Morrison used his strongest language yet to declare he wants Australia to reach net zero greenhouse gases by 2050.

Reneweconomy

The share price of AGL – Australia’s biggest power generator and the country’s biggest emitter – took a tumble on Thursday after it revealed a massive $2.7 billion in write downs, including a $1.9 billion pre-tax loss from legacy investments in wind farms.

The Fifth Estate

Startup UPowr chose last year to enter the solar market. With nearly 1000 clients that was probably a good call.

Utility Magazine

Flinders University is implementing a number of renewable energy initiatives to reach its target of net-zero emissions from electricity from 2021 onwards, including a new electricity supply agreement across all of its South Australian campuses.

Reneweconomy

An innovative Australian wave energy generator has been deployed in the ocean off King Island, where it will be connected to the Bass Strait island’s power grid and tested alongside existing wind, solar and diesel resources – a first in Australia and possibly the world.

Sustainability Matters

Disposable face masks could be recycled to make road-building material and help solve the mounting problem of pandemic-generated waste.

The Fifth Estate

Last year wasn’t an easy time to start a national “Declare” movement but that didn’t stop a small group of dedicated planners joining forces to declare a climate and biodiversity emergency.

The Advertiser

Adelaide City Council’s dominant faction wants potentially killer gum trees removed from city streets.

The Fifth Estate

It’s been a big week for one of the biggest tech companies in the world. Hot on the heels of the announcement that the founder of online retailing behemoth, Jeff Bezos, would step down as CEO – but remain on as executive chairman – Amazon also unveiled plans for the curly new centrepiece of its headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.

The Sydney Morning Herald

In 1995, a tiny black sun bear sat trapped in a cage in Cambodia destined for the chopping block.

ABC Rural

Organic farmer Ant Wilson's summer fruit harvest looked a little different this year.

Farm Weekly

CARBON neutrality of the grains industry is set to be the focus of the upcoming Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) Grains Research Update in Perth on Monday, February 22 and Tuesday, February 23.

The Mandarin

The CSIRO and the National Council for Fire and Emergency Services (AFAC) have partnered to develop a bushfire modelling and prediction capability that will support emergency service and response teams across the country.

News.com.au

A new study has indicated that scientists have underestimated the impact of climate change on rising sea levels, which is causing them to rise faster and far more than historical data predicted.

Sustainability Matters

Renergi Pty Ltd will progress to the next development stage of its waste-to-energy technology in Collie, Western Australia, with the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) announcing $3.9 million in funding on behalf of the Australian Government.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Australian forests campaigner Nicole Rycroft has won the world’s richest environmental prize, the $US3 million ($3.9 million) Climate Breakthrough Award, to continue her work developing alternatives to products made from the world’s diminishing forests.

Sustainability Matters

Social media campaigns can be an effective tool for evoking behavioural change towards reducing food waste, according to research conducted at Queensland University of Technology (QUT).

The Sydney Morning Herald

Artist Marina DeBris starts each day combing the beaches of Sydney’s eastern suburbs for rubbish that she fashions into a kind of couture called “trashion”. It’s not hard for this “trashionista” to find raw materials for her creations.

News.com.au

Wild and wet weather is set to lash Victoria over the next 24 hours, bringing storms, strong winds and possible flooding.