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"Clean energy investment manager Greenbacker Renewable Energy has secured $950 million to build what will be New York State’s largest solar farm.

Greenbacker acquired the 500-megawatt (MW) Cider project from renewable energy developer Hecate Energy. Work started in October [2024], and the project is expected to come online in 2026.

Hecate announced on February 3 that the New York Office of Renewable Energy Siting and Transmission (ORES) has now formally issued a siting permit and a formal notice to proceed with construction...

Cider will sit on approximately 2,500 acres of land in Genesee County, east of Buffalo, where it began construction in late 2024. The project is expected to generate enough annual clean electricity to power around 120,000 New York households.

Greenbacker’s Cider project is one of 23 large-scale clean energy developments awarded contracts in December by the New York State Energy and Research Development Authority (NYSERDA). New York has set a goal of sourcing 70% of its electricity from clean energy by 2030.

The Solar Energy Industries Association ranks New York 8th nationally for solar capacity. With 6,493 megawatts, it has enough solar to power 1,127,865 homes. It’s expected to move to 5th place in five years."

-via Electrek, February 3, 2025

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"In a major milestone for wildlife restoration, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) has announced the successful release of 20 wolves in Pitkin and Eagle counties.

This marks the second year of an ambitious effort to reintroduce a self-sustaining wolf population to the state."

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"Solar power surpassed coal as a source of electricity in the European Union (EU) for the first time in 2024..."

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The Nature Trust of British Columbia has raised the funds to protect over 400 acres of ecologically significant land in the East Kootenay region of BC. Now they can "increase connectivity for wildlife while improving the resiliency of floodplain and benchland ecosystems along the Kootenay River."

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"The new Geddes Creek Conservation Area encompasses 193 hectares (477 acres) of Douglas-fir and montane spruce forest, open grassy habitat and a seasonal creek north of Radium Hot Springs on the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains."

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"The government of Laos DPR recently turned a vast area of hills and tropical forests over to conservation with the establishment of Xesap National Park (NP)."

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Petition to stop aerial spraying of glyphosate over BC forests.

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A petition to call on BC Minister of Forests Bruce Ralston to protect rare and critical Old-Growth ecosystems in the Nahmint watershed.

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"This drop is positive for tackling local air pollution and acid rain. However, it also has implications for climate change since SO2 has masked some of the warming caused by greenhouse gases."

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"Even more encouraging, the island is one of a growing number of cases where seabirds have returned on their own once invasive predators were successfully eliminated."

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Germany solar power output jumps to record highs

"Solar farms produced over 60% of Germany's electricity for several hours a day over the past week"

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"In what marine biologists have described as a “phenomenal finding,” a survey of whales around the territorial waters of this archipelagic nation revealed the presence of blue whales—over a dozen."

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"The 111 hectares that are now permanently protected are within a vast natural corridor that supports the survival and resiliency of many plants and animals."

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"This network of volunteer societies are literally transforming England by slowly walking across dark asphalt with a high beam flashlight and a high-visibility jacket, picking up amphibians and dropping them into a bucket for safe transport across the road."

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Yo this rules and is genuinely uplifting

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"Indigenous rangers have captured a rare recording of the "extremely secretive" night parrot in a remote part of Western Australia."