Tag: environment

SPECIAL FEATURE: Seven of Australia’s ten warmest years have occurred since 2005, with just one cooler than average year in the last decade (2011), highlighting how warmer than average temperatures now dominate Australia’s climate.

SPECIAL FEATURE: What will it take for the world to finally tackle climate change? Encouragingly, there may be a historical precedent: Victorian London’s handling of the ‘Great Stink’, where the River Thames turned into an open sewer, overturned beliefs founded on misinformation.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Enough. Most Australian voters surely care less about who is running the country than they do about making sure our country is still a habitable place to live in the future.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: The climate message seems to be reaching the Australian people. But will it get to those we’ve elected to represent us?

OPINION & ANALYSIS: What the Adani Carmichael mine would mean for Queensland, Australia and the world if it goes ahead.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Speaking in London this week to a climate sceptics group, Tony Abbott gestured to what seems to be happening in government policy – but then set the bar higher.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: As Tony Abbott accepts another pat on the back from a roomful of climate deniers in London, we may wonder how long business interests in Australia will tolerate his wrecking, undermining and sniping.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Researchers have observed that, as climate zones change, animals and plants migrate to keep up. But as biodiversity and ecosystem services are threatened, species that can’t adjust to rapidly changing conditions face extinction.

IN PICTURES: The oceans are our lifeblood and our playground. Let these stunning images inspire us to do a better job of protecting them.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: While it is too early to predict how Chinese and European leadership will manifest in practice, in the face of American obstruction they are arguably the world’s best hope, if not its only hope.

ANALYSIS & OPINION: The extreme marine heatwave in 2016 killed two-thirds of the corals along a 700km stretch of the northern Great Barrier Reef, from Port Douglas to Papua New Guinea. It was a game-changer for the reef and for how we manage it.

The waves are lapping at our Pacific Island neighbours' doors and all our political leaders can do is laugh, writes Tess Lawrence.

Conservative UK MP Richard Benyon criticised PM Tony Abbott's leadership on Australia's approach to climate change

Increasing numbers of us are concerned about how our travels impact the environments and local communities of our destinations.

Christine Milne says bushfires expose Federal Government's nonsense and inaction on climate change.

Environment Minister Greg Hunt’s ‘claim that his Direct Action plan to meet Australia’s ‘world leading’ carbon emissions reduction target is vindicated by the UN has been mocked by political opponents and the Climate Change Authority.

Australia ranked third overall in a survey into G20 child prosperity trailing behind Germany and France. But economists at Save Our Children say it is not good enough.

Australia's Climate Council this week warned of significant loss of infrastructure, potentially costing the country billions.

Clive Palmer and former US vice-president Al Gore presented as an odd couple but they had nothing but admiration for each other as they talk over carbon tax and emissions trading scheme.

The Abbott government accepts the UN's rejection of its application to remove 74,000 hectares of forest from Tasmania's World Heritage Area.

A landmark UN report warns the world isn't prepared for the serious risks of climate change, including worse bushfires for Australia.

The Greens say the environment would come under "massive attack" if wall-to-wall conservative governments take power across Australia.

With energy efficiency and rising costs of utilities at the forefront of many minds, it’s no wonder people all over the country are taking a look at their habits and seeing what changes can be made for the benefit of the environment and their pockets.

Environment Minister Greg Hunt has abolished the Climate Commission and begun work on getting rid of the Climate Change Authority, in what has been described as a black day in the fight against global warming in Australia.

The Australian government is currently awaiting a response to a proposal it has presented to the international community, which would create protected marine areas in East Antarctica and establish reserves that would ban fishing and hunting.

Campaigner Bob Irwin says he’s stunned by the lack of policy debate about Australia’s increasingly degraded natural environment.

Professor Kingsley Dixon’s contribution to research on native plants and the regeneration of ecosystems was recognised last night in London when he was awarded the Linnean Medal by the Linnean Society of London. The Australian biologist is currently working on a two year project on desert restoration for the Saudi ...