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Migrating birds halt expansion of London Array

Offshore windfarm in Thames estuary to have reduced generating capacity as second phase of project is scrappedExpansion plans at one of the world's largest offshore windfarms have come to a sudden...

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Australia's renewables adviser scrapes the bottom of the climate denialist...

Dick Warburton cites a long-debunked petition to argue climate scientists are split on the causes of global warmingIF you look down there at the bottom of the barrel and see the deep gouge marks in the...

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Australia’s most effective pseudoscience: climate change denial

Ketan Joshi: The motivated rejection of science permeates the most powerful office in our country. No other pseudoscientific venture can lay claim to such a gleaming trophy Ketan Joshi

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UK floods: raise roads and redesign houses, engineers say

Redesigned houses, energy-generating coastal defences and raised roads preferable to dredging or tree-plantingHouses should be redesigned, roads raised and tidal lagoons built that generate energy to...

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Little hostility to renewable energy target despite government review

Nearly two-thirds of Australians think target is about right or too low, poll finds, with only 13% judging it too highLenore Taylor

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Achim Steiner: shale gas rush 'a liability' in efforts slow climate change

UN's top environmental official says switch from coal to natural gas is delaying critical energy transition to renewablesShale gas could turn out to be "a liability" to global efforts limit climate...

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Tim Cook tells climate change sceptics to ditch Apple shares

BusinessGreen: Chief executive angered by right wing think tank’s questions about the profitability of renewable energy investments Jessica Shankleman

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European support for climate change action 'not dented by financial crash'

Eurobarometer poll finds public in most financially-hit members states such as Spain and Greece still support moves to greener economyFiona Harvey

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Wind turbines stand firm as gas prices take off during Crimea crisis

Despite this bad political weather, turbines remain safe to turn and provide more reassurance than oil giantsAs the price of gas jumps 10% on the spot market in reaction to the Russian military...

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Ministers urge Europe to agree green energy goals

Group of thirteen European ministers, including UK’s Ed Davey, call for EU to adopt climate package despite opposition from Poland

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Eric Pickles guilty of 'double standards' over energy planning applications

Green energy boss Dale Vince says communities secretary is applying greater local scrutiny to windfarms than frackingThe communities secretary, Eric Pickles, is guilty of "double standards" because of...

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Live debate: is the CSR model better than social enterprise?

Join us on Thursday 13 March 12-1:30pm to discuss whether CSR is better than social enterprise in terms of social impactCorporate social responsibility schemes have now become mainstream – with large...

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Ross Garnaut: climate debate has become a Martian beauty contest

Guardian Australia: Former Labor government’s climate adviser tears into Coalition’s direct action policy and green paperLenore Taylor

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Perovskites: the future of solar power?

With predictions of up to 50% efficiency and named one of the breakthroughs of 2013, perovskites are the clean tech material development to watch right now • This is the first in a new monthly series...

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Solar-powered Big Ben mulled in plan to cut UK parliament's emissions

BusinessGreen: Parliament confirms it is considering installing solar panels on the clock face and insulating the Palace with sheep’s woolJessica Shankleman

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Cheap batteries will revolutionise the renewable energy market | Chris Huhne

The big power companies will struggle to keep up as a solution emerges to the problem of storing wind and solar powerNews this week, from opposite ends of the planet, that points to the convulsion of...

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Why is there no Manhattan Project to tackle climate change? | Tom Delay

Tom Delay: We must overcome short-termism, inconvenient truths and cuts to R&D and find the Brunels of low carbon technology

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Deal of the century: buyout the US coal industry for $50bn

What if Bloomberg, Branson and Grantham came together to buyout the coal industry, close and clean up the mines, retrain workers and accelerate the expansion of renewable energy?Would you make a one...

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Cheap batteries will not provide miracle boost to renewable energy market |...

I fear that Chris Huhne's confidence in the "miracles" of technology and scale provides false reassurance that cheap batteries will revolutionise the renewable energy market (Comment, 10 March). World...

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Three ways that green policy can reassure voters at the 2015 UK election

Eradicate fuel poverty, protect open spaces and make Britain more resilient by investing in smart systemsAfter years of economic uncertainty and falling living standards, the 2015 election will have a...

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