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Iain Coucher has been reappointed as Chair of the Water Services Regulation Authority (Ofwat) for a second term beginning 1 October 2026, to run until the new integrated water regulator is established and no later than 30 June 2029.
Reported November 8, 2026: as Australia prepared to help lead COP31 negotiations, government data estimated emissions from its coal and gas exports, once burnt overseas, at almost 1,200 million tonnes for 2025-26, up from 681 million tonnes in 2005.
At Johnson Space Center in Houston, engineers use vacuum chambers and lunar regolith simulant to study how spacesuits and hardware withstand abrasive Moon dust ahead of Artemis missions, NASA reported on Aug. 7, 2026.
In a 6 October 2026 report, the British High Commission in Islamabad said Minister Stephen Doughty discussed trade, regional security and education links on his first Pakistan visit, citing 15,000 students and £5.5 billion in annual trade.
The gold Christmas beetle took 39.3 per cent of 44,472 votes in the third ABC Australian Insect of the Year poll, with the tortoise-shelled ladybird second at 24.9 per cent.
A NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day entry published on August 8, 2026, contrasts the diffuse greenish coma of periodic comet 10P/Tempel 2 with the globular star cluster Messier 30, recorded on July 29.
The Regulator of Social Housing said on 7 October 2026 that it downgraded for-profit landlord Heylo Housing Registered Provider Limited to G4*/V4*, citing serious regulatory concern over its failure to protect shared owners' homes.
At COP31 talks in Antalya, Türkiye's plan to raise electricity's share of global energy consumption to 35 per cent by 2035 drew scrutiny over fossil fuels, while more countries backed a global rooftop solar pledge.
A NASA STEM Team article published Aug. 10, 2026, outlines internships, challenges, career events, citizen science and mission milestones for students in the new school year.
Sellafield Ltd says it shared its continuous-improvement approach with more than 400 nuclear leaders from 38 countries at the WANO General Meeting in Tokyo in September, where WANO launched a new framework.
A Landsat 8 image from March 18, 2026, shows high water over intertidal mudflats in Roebuck Bay, Western Australia. The report, published August 11, 2026, links the bay's large tidal range to the region's shallow continental shelf.
ANZ CEO Nuno Matos told a parliamentary inquiry on 12 November 2026 that record equity markets alongside rising interest rates create a 'dangerous situation' for the world, though he does not expect an Australian recession.
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