Australia

Deal with Freetricity and Styles&Wood Energy will see 1,500 homes a month fitted with solar systems for 'the foreseeable future'

Tony Abbott confirms role will be dropped and that his new cabinet will be the first without a science minister since 1931

The Carbon Pricing King is Dead, Long live the Carbon Pricing King

Bipartisan report highlights scientific link between severe weather events and dangerous global warming

Australian government says 'flagship' 155MW development in New South Wales will boost investor confidence in large-scale solar

Memorandum of understanding comes weeks after Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd pledged to accelerate introduction of emissions trading scheme

The Times is wrong - The greens are far from defeated, but they still need to up their game

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announces plan to move from A$25 a tonne tax to floating pricing system in July 2014

Meet the Cambridge students determined to cross Australia at motorway speeds using 'the power of a hairdryer'

Macquarie Generation signs deal with Algae.Tec to use waste CO2 from Bayswater plant to grow algae for transport fuel