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NSW promotes EV-friendly road trips to tackle range anxiety

The routes – ranging from 171km through the Snowy Mountains to 819km along the Pacific Coast from Sydney to Tweed Heads – are kitted out with public charging stations at least once every 100km.

15/02/2025

2000-year-old basilica found in London office basement

Archaeologists at the site of a planned 32-storey office tower have unearthed the remains of a thriving Roman town centre at the heart of old Londinium.

15/02/2025

How hot is your suburb? Search our database to find the tree cover in your area

On a hot summer’s day, we tested the temperature on two footpaths: one with, and one without, tree cover. The results were stark.

13/02/2025

Beavers finish seven-year dam project in two days

Despite a seven-year planning process and successfully securing the funding, the Czech Republic’s dam plans went nowhere. Until the animal workers arrived.

12/02/2025

Australians are being misled by ‘dodgy’ offsets, say Fortescue

The iron ore giant says the public is being misled into believing that low-quality carbon offset schemes will lead to net zero, despite evidence that only reducing fossil fuels will work.

12/02/2025

Humpback whales sing the way humans speak

The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new study suggests.

07/02/2025

If cars become batteries on wheels, cities become power plants

Australia’s energy system now offers vehicle-to-grid charging, which will make the concept of traditional baseload power redundant.

11/11/2024

Victoria turns on what will be world’s biggest onshore wind farm

The vision of a small group of sheep farmers is set to deliver nine per cent of the state’s energy requirements and a windfall for the local community.

11/10/2024

Households surge ahead in rooftop solar as renewable projects break bottleneck

Consumers installed four times more electricity generation through rooftop solar in the first half of this year than all commercial projects combined.

24/09/2024

The simple fix that could reduce bird deaths from wind farms

Painting one blade black, or using contrasting stripes, on wind turbines is proven to dramatically reduce bird strikes. There are also more high-tech solutions working for endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles.

17/07/2024

These plastics were ‘unrecyclable’. An Australian invention is changing that

Groundbreaking technology developed by University of NSW researchers transforms hard plastics from old office equipment into 3D printer feedstock.

06/07/2024

Island as energy ecosystem: Mallorca leads the charge on green hydrogen

From Jules Verne to Christopher Skase, Rafael Nadal’s native Mallorca has long had a powerful pull on the rich and famous. Now its natural assets of sun and sea are fuelling power itself.

25/07/2023

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