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12 01 2024 | 17:45

Australia urged to name heatwaves to combat dangers of extreme temperatures

‘Heat culture’ of Spain helps communities prepare for hot weather events in the same way they plan for the arrival of cyclones Australia should follow the Spanish city of Seville and start naming…

10 01 2024 | 20:35

Bird that migrates to Victorian wetlands slated for wind industry terminal added to threatened species list

The sharp-tailed sandpiper migrates from Siberia to a Port of Hastings site that Tanya Plibersek last week blocked a state plan to develop A migratory shorebird that visits globally important…

09 01 2024 | 08:22

Tanya Plibersek blocks Victorian government’s plan to build wind turbine plant at Port of Hastings

Environment minister says ‘large areas of [wetland] will be destroyed or substantially modified’ by the proposal for windfarm development Tanya Plibersek has blocked plans by the Victorian…

09 01 2024 | 08:09

Climate and vaccine misinformation seemed worlds apart – but it turned out the Cranky Uncle was a universal figure

A game that teaches people how to spot climate misinformation is now being rolled out – with the same cantankerous central character – to combat vaccine hesitancy in the developing world Most…

19 12 2023 | 18:53

Some of Australia’s strategically important coral islands at great risk of vanishing, study finds

More than a dozen of Australia’s coral islands that help to extend the country’s maritime jurisdiction are at high risk of disappearing because of climate change, according to a study. The fate of…

24 11 2023 | 14:59

‘Hope has to be a strategy’: the scientist who refused to let the climate warmongers win

As one of Australia’s most influential voices on climate, Lesley Hughes has thought deeply about how to talk about the crisis and says hope has a key role to play “I think for most climate change…

16 10 2023 | 18:40

What is the climate crisis doing to Australia’s weather extremes? A Coalition frontbencher gets it ‘patently wrong’

Rising risk of heatwaves and bushfires means politicians will be put to the test about the effect of the climate crisis. Already, some have roundly failed As Australia stares down the barrel of a…

08 09 2023 | 14:35

Antarctica warming much faster than models predicted in ‘deeply concerning’ sign for sea levels

Study finds ‘direct evidence’ of polar amplification on continent as scientists warn of implications of ice loss Antarctica is likely warming at almost twice the rate of the rest of the world and…

17 08 2023 | 21:34

Expert panel calls for urgent rethink on Great Barrier Reef management amid ‘unremitting’ climate crisis

Group chaired by former chief scientist Ian Chubb writes to Tanya Plibersek, saying ‘business as usual’ on the reef is not an option

06 08 2023 | 13:10

Ocean temperatures around Australia 0.5C above June average as UN declares an El Niño

Ocean temperatures around Australia last month were 0.5C above average, as the UN’s weather agency declared the world was now in an El Niño. El Niño events influence weather extremes around the…

19 07 2023 | 12:58

Woodside has huge plans to drill for oil and gas – and to meet its climate targets. How does it do it?

The Australian energy giant Woodside is spending $7bn to drill for 479m barrels-worth of oil and gas off the coast of Mexico, but it says this is all in line with keeping global heating to 1.5C. How…