Imagine if plants could mine the earth for us without destroying the joint. In Albania, they can! And here at home it was good news for Macquarie Marshes and Tassie logging protesters.
Forests don’t just absorb CO2 — they also take up methane (Nature.com)
Resources Regulator overturns Macquarie Marshes mining exploration decision (Nature Conservation Council)
Sustainable Timber Tasmania pays legal costs of protesters wrongly banned from state’s public native forest reserves (ABC News)
“Phytomining”: Albanian start-up using plants to “mine” nickel from rocks AND remove CO2 from the atmosphere (Metalplant)
Global renewables generation to outstrip coal power by next year (Renew Economy)
Bowen signs deal to treble large-scale wind and solar capacity, and double storage in the West (Renew Economy)
Origin to double size of Eraring battery to soak up solar next to country’s biggest coal generator (Renew Economy)
Bowen backs NT renewables drive with $250 million for batteries, solar and grid upgrades (Renew Economy)
Massive solar and battery hybrid project – dubbed first of its kind – secures grid approval (Renew Economy)
China installs more than 100GW of solar in first half of 2024 (Renew Economy)