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15 Sep 2020
New battery storage research at ECI following latest round of ACT reverse auction
3 Sep 2020
Australia continues to lead the world in the per capita roll out of energy generated by solar and wind, resulting in lower greenhouse gas emissions and falling...
27 Aug 2020
Australia's economic response to COVID ignores aged care, climate crisis and housing, report finds »
Australia’s economic response to Covid-19 has failed to address insecure work, privatised services such as aged care, low housing supply and climate change.
27 Aug 2020
When the clock ticked over to 2020, Australia was in the grip of a brutal drought and unprecedented bushfires. But in the months since, while many of us were...
26 Aug 2020
Arctic sea ice is melting more quickly than once assumed. Today's climate models have yet to incorporate the steep rise in temperatures that have occurred...
25 Aug 2020
Melting of the Antarctic icesheet could “conservatively” cause half a metre of sea-level rise in the coming century, a significant increase on some previous...
18 Aug 2020
An Australian-first research project adjusts to the COVID-19 pandemic.
28 Jul 2020
Coal will need to be phased out of the world's economy to meet the climate change challenge, but this can work properly only if social objectives and...
28 Jul 2020
Governments must proactively prepare workers and communities as part of a ‘just transition’ in response to an inevitable phase out of coal mines and power...
27 Jul 2020
ANU researchers have achieved a new efficiency record for hydrogen cells that can convert water into hydrogen simply using sunlight.
24 Jul 2020
A new study led by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) provides a clearer picture of conditions during the last ice age when global ice was...
23 Jul 2020
Two ANU researchers, Prof Frank Jotzo and Prof Mark Howden, have been appointed to respectively write and review the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...