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title: $200M in funding for energy upgrades on social housing and low income rentals
description: The Federal and NSW state government have announced a new $200 million package to help support energy saving upgrades for social housing and low income rentals.
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# $200M in funding for energy upgrades on social housing and low income rentals
Wednesday, 17 January 2024
**The Federal and NSW state government have announced a new $200 million package to help support energy saving upgrades for social housing and low income rentals in the hottest and coldest parts of New South Wales. Around 30,000 household will be eligible to receive support to upgrade heat pumps, fans, air conditioning and solar systems. **
**A Cloned Rhesus Monkey Is Still Alive After 2 Years. Researchers in China are forging ahead with their controversial attempts to clone primates, and now, a team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) claims one of their cloned monkeys has lived more than two years.**
**Tonga's lost villages: Two years on from a devastating volcano and tsunami some islands remain abandoned. The volcanic explosion turned the skies black, triggering a destructive tsunami. Two years on, some of Tonga’s islands might be abandoned forever. **
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[**Federal and NSW State government announce $200M in funding for energy upgrades on social housing and low income rentals**](https://app.meltwater.com/mwTransition?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedianet.news.com.au%2Frelease%2F998700&urlCategories=newsLtd&analytics=false&documentId=VF1IjDQv4vRACQBU7OJ28cLTT8E&transitionToken=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiJ9.eyJob3N0bmFtZSI6Im1lZGlhbmV0Lm5ld3MuY29tLmF1In0.g1-UedB77E-RX9pwauR6cQKtTKBUmPTGp_2t9NYSAt31WTZOpT-7MJXMDnMFpCHlQuww_kLvEfk3Sl59K_uVGw)
**Around 30,000 household will be eligibleto receive support to upgrade heat pumps, fans, air conditioning and solar systems. **
[**A Cloned Rhesus Monkey Is Still Alive After 2 Years**](https://www.sciencealert.com/a-cloned-rhesus-monkey-is-still-alive-after-2-years)
**Researchers in China are forging ahead with their controversial attempts to clone primates, and now, a team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) claims one of their cloned monkeys has lived more than two years.**
[**Tonga's lost villages: Two years on from a devastating volcano and tsunami some islands remain abandoned**](https://app.meltwater.com/mwTransition?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.net.au%2Fnews%2F2024-01-16%2Flost-villages-of-tonga-after-volcano-tsunami%2F103228574&urlCategories=newsLtd&analytics=false&documentId=j3CAgj55EdOpDdOe4ys9B6WWy1g&transitionToken=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiJ9.eyJob3N0bmFtZSI6Ind3dy5hYmMubmV0LmF1In0.G6KfJQf9DTg3BPfDRnL8aNk-KGOfbZc12czKSTcqj9BstN0qGFyj-TGroGNT_097qH1_WRMtfq5v4vGs7BrXgQ)
**The volcanic explosion turned the skies black, triggering a destructive tsunami. Two years on, some of Tonga’s islands might be abandoned forever. **
[**Cost-of-living solutions welcomed, but millions of Australian families at risk in dangerously hot homes**](https://app.meltwater.com/mwTransition?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedianet.news.com.au%2Frelease%2F998701&urlCategories=newsLtd&analytics=false&documentId=F4dEYwhlCVXvfQot9k5BTQcgqvk&transitionToken=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiJ9.eyJob3N0bmFtZSI6Im1lZGlhbmV0Lm5ld3MuY29tLmF1In0.g1-UedB77E-RX9pwauR6cQKtTKBUmPTGp_2t9NYSAt31WTZOpT-7MJXMDnMFpCHlQuww_kLvEfk3Sl59K_uVGw)
**Parents for Climate’s latest report, *Hothouse Australia: Our kids at risk as heat soars,* highlights that millions of children, including over 760,000 children living in poverty in Australia, face heightened risks to their health and education from exposure to extreme summer heat in homes, schools and childcare centres.**
[**We don't know what tomorrow will bring': how climate change is affecting Fijians’ mental health**](https://theconversation.com/we-dont-know-what-tomorrow-will-bring-how-climate-change-is-affecting-fijians-mental-health-219506)
**Our interviews highlight the substantial distress associated with the rapidly changing environment of Fiji.**
[**Aussies lose it over thermal pool in New South Wales**](https://app.meltwater.com/mwTransition?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.news.com.au%2Ftravel%2Ftravel-updates%2Ftravel-stories%2Faussies-lose-it-over-thermal-pool-in-new-south-wales%2Fnews-story%2Fddf1b9a1435ce35eaacbab8e27167eb1&urlCategories=newsLtd&analytics=false&documentId=jprq9iRIHsM0Ygd86jxDT8du9_s&transitionToken=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiJ9.eyJob3N0bmFtZSI6Ind3dy5uZXdzLmNvbS5hdSJ9._9eIk96tIPNTjXwzMngn8CFnjBniEWEG71sNjH2GiqhhnqHvoch0hnhg2EgYcYnFoZnfeMpFAgXVacvMtxi1Pg)
**A “magical” and “permanently heated” thermal pool in an Australian national park has gone viral on social media.**
[**Southern Launch rocket proposal at Whalers Way puts southern emu-wren at risk, expert says**](https://app.meltwater.com/mwTransition?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.net.au%2Fnews%2F2024-01-16%2Fconservationists-warn-southern-emu-wren-in-danger-from-rockets%2F103320586&urlCategories=newsLtd&analytics=false&documentId=cQ6oSowBmRWkuoNSzhrBUnbV-84&transitionToken=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiJ9.eyJob3N0bmFtZSI6Ind3dy5hYmMubmV0LmF1In0.G6KfJQf9DTg3BPfDRnL8aNk-KGOfbZc12czKSTcqj9BstN0qGFyj-TGroGNT_097qH1_WRMtfq5v4vGs7BrXgQ)
**An environmental expert says a proposed rocket-launching facility near Port Lincoln in South Australia should not go ahead, and the site should become a southern emu-wren repopulation site to save the bird from extinction.**
[**Mysterious Giant Exploding Craters in Siberia May Finally Be Explained**](https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-giant-exploding-craters-in-siberia-may-finally-be-explained)
**Scientists are putting forward a new explanation for the giant exploding craters that seem to be randomly appearing in the Siberian permafrost.**
[**Endangered Maugean skate die in captive breeding program after being removed from Macquarie Harbour**](https://app.meltwater.com/mwTransition?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.net.au%2Fnews%2F2024-01-16%2Fmaugean-skate-insurance-population-issues%2F103321266&urlCategories=newsLtd&analytics=false&documentId=g3AWGbLi0PLQye_OXXuGKrhPZBc&transitionToken=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiJ9.eyJob3N0bmFtZSI6Ind3dy5hYmMubmV0LmF1In0.G6KfJQf9DTg3BPfDRnL8aNk-KGOfbZc12czKSTcqj9BstN0qGFyj-TGroGNT_097qH1_WRMtfq5v4vGs7BrXgQ)
**In an attempt to prevent their extinction, a captive breeding program was funded by the state and federal governments, but two out of four skates have already died.**
[**Rare male pygmy hippo makes public debut to visitors at Czech zoo**](https://app.meltwater.com/mwTransition?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themercury.com.au%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Frare-male-pygmy-hippo-makes-public-debut-to-visitors-at-czech-zoo%2Fvideo%2F4f65a32265967d61873bac8cee617575&urlCategories=newsLtd&analytics=false&documentId=XoFPQ23XbMqGvveGZrQax4kvDWc&transitionToken=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiJ9.eyJob3N0bmFtZSI6Ind3dy50aGVtZXJjdXJ5LmNvbS5hdSJ9.O_tg5gr8S5XuQm5q1iNQqcMqWjg3FMRKAz31fwo01zi3Pz2_JaFdhjVaGN8U3q0l4RtMncLe1e59fXwsar1O_A)
**A rare male pygmy hippopotamus, born at a zoo in the Czech Republic, has made his public debut to visitors. His birth was celebrated by conservationists attempting to save the endangered species from extinction.**
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