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The hard truths of climate change — by the numbers
23 Sep 2019
A set of troubling charts shows how little progress nations have made toward limiting greenhouse-gas emissions.
California and 23 other states sue Trump
23 Sep 2019
California and 23 other states have filed a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from blocking California’s authority to set emission standards for cars and trucks.
Canberra switching to 100% renewable energy
23 Sep 2019
Canberra will become the first city outside Europe to shift from fossil fuel to 100% renewable energy.
Protest-rubbish photo is just that ... rubbish
23 Sep 2019
A hoax photo that claims to show rubbish left behind by Australian climate strike protesters is circulating on Facebook, despite being revealed as fake months ago.
Make phones that last longer and we could cut emissions
20 Sep 2019
Extending the lifespan of smartphones by just one year would significantly reduce carbon emissions in the European Union, according to a new report .
Why we must see humanity and nature as one
20 Sep 2019
From transport and housing to food production and fashion, our civilisation is driving climate and ecological breakdown.
Lower voting age would give young a climate voice
20 Sep 2019
The voting age should be lowered to 16 because today’s young people are the ones that face a “toxic inheritance” of environmental crises, a leading think tank has said.
CLIMATE ACTION: Meet the good, the bad and the ugly
19 Sep 2019
Ahead of next week's UN climate summit, noted Australian climate academic BILL HARE takes stock of the world's best and worst performers on climate action - including some surprise success stories.
Big Oil to woo climate summit delegates
19 Sep 2019
Oil and gas executives are holding an exclusive invitation-only forum with delegates to next week's UN climate summit, in what critics have condemned as an attempt to influence negotiations.
Trump to block California car emissions rules
19 Sep 2019
The Trump administration is poised to end California’s authority to set its own vehicle emissions standards and bar states from establishing their own regulations.
Can a climate-conscious diet include meat?
19 Sep 2019
Two new studies are making the case that people in high-income countries need to cut back on livestock-based foods, but they're also suggesting that one-size-fits-all recommendations won't work in all cases.
Trollbots swarm Twitter with climate attacks
18 Sep 2019
A new tool is tracking automated and otherwise questionable social media accounts as they sow disinformation, discord and division. Climate change is a target.
Mine protesters tackle All Blacks on eve of World Cup
18 Sep 2019
A petition launched just days before the World Cup opens in Japan calls on the All Blacks to dump their principal sponsor AIG over ties to a controversial Australian coal mine development.
Global warming hotspots pass safe limit
18 Sep 2019
By land and sea, some of the planet’s hotspots are already above the temperature agreed by scientists and politicians as the maximum allowable to prevent a disastrous climate crisis.
$1m-a-minute farm subsidies drive crisis, says report
17 Sep 2019
The public is providing more than $1m per minute in global farm subsidies, much of which is driving the climate crisis and destruction of wildlife, according to a new report.
Why the New York climate summit matters
17 Sep 2019
As world leaders converge on New York City for the United Nations Climate Action Summit on September 23, they enter what may be the most consequential week in climate politics since Donald Trump’s surprise election as president of the United States in 2016.
Trump's plan is to destroy Obama's green legacy
17 Sep 2019
The White House is not only overturning as many environmental protections as it can - it also wants to significantly change the legal landscape to make it harder to reinstate them.
More Australians drown as summers heat up
17 Sep 2019
More Australians are drowning as the country faces record high temperatures, lifesavers have warned.
The 'Lionesses' changed our measure of climate ambition
17 Sep 2019
In 2013, a group of women sat around the kitchen table at Glen House, a country estate in the Scottish borders.
Americans are waking up, new poll shows
16 Sep 2019
Two-thirds of Americans believe climate change is either a crisis or a serious problem, with a majority wanting immediate action to address global heating and its damaging consequences, a new poll shows.
Trump ditches water protection policy
16 Sep 2019
The Trump administration has repealed an Obama-era policy designed to protect US waterways.
Deforestation getting worse, says study
16 Sep 2019
Big agribusinesses aren't doing enough to stop deforestation in their supply chains, critics say.
Welcome to Welly ... the Paris of the southern hemisphere
13 Sep 2019
Wellington is the new Paris of the South, according to the latest cities’ liveability index.
No need to cut back on beef, say UK farmers
13 Sep 2019
Farming can become climate neutral by 2040 without cutting beef production or converting substantial areas of farmland into forest, according to UK farmers.
Guards watch Canadian environment minister
13 Sep 2019
Canadian environment minister Catherine McKenna says she has been assigned a security detail because of abuse she has received both online and in person.
UN confident China will raise climate ambition
12 Sep 2019
China is expected to come to the UN climate action summit with a more ambitious climate plan, a top UN official believes.
KNEES UP: Hot days in the field might see test stars in shorts
12 Sep 2019
The changing climate has brought to the holy temple of cricket a raft of possible consequences, from more drinks breaks to playing in shorts.
Australia launches emergency relocation of fish
12 Sep 2019
Faced with a ferocious summer with little rain forecast, the New South Wales government has embarked on a Noah’s Ark type operation to move native fish to safe havens.
Building climate defences could boost economies
11 Sep 2019
Countries could reap a $7 trillion economic prize by investing in measures to adapt to a changing climate, according to an analysis backed by Ban Ki-Moon, Bill Gates and the head of the World Bank.
'CHAOS, CHAOS, CHAOS': A trip through Bolsonaro's inferno
11 Sep 2019
From afar, it resembles a tornado: an immense grey column shooting thousands of feet upwards from the forest canopy into the Amazonian skies.
More Australians fear effects of changing climate ...
11 Sep 2019
Australians are increasingly concerned about droughts and floods, extinctions and water shortages associated with climate change, according to new research.
... but the disaster minister has his doubts
11 Sep 2019
Australia’s minister responsible for drought and natural disasters, David Littleproud, has said that he doesn’t “know if climate change is manmade”.
RETURN OF THE BLOB? Marine heatwave settles over Pacific
10 Sep 2019
The Pacific Ocean off the western coast of North America is five degrees hotter than usual after warming at an unusually rapid rate.
EU bank begins green metamorphosis
10 Sep 2019
European Investment Bank directors are about to begin discussing an updated lending policy which could see the EU bank stop funding fossil fuel projects.
Booming tropical cities feel the heat
10 Sep 2019
Cities occupy about 2 per cent of the world’s land area, but are home to about 55 per cent of the world’s people and generate more than 70 per cent of global GDP, plus the associated greenhouse gas emissions.
Central America climate change driving people out
10 Sep 2019
Droughts and damaging storms are impacting smallholder farmers in Central America and driving higher levels of migration from the region.
Trump scraps Obama's lightbulb rule
9 Sep 2019
The Trump administration has finalised its rollback of an Obama-era rule that would have required US light bulbs to be more energy efficient.
Queensland coal goes to war with solar
6 Sep 2019
In Queensland, it seems the legacy coal generators are deciding not to ramp down as the market might expect. Instead, some observers suspect they are trying to force the solar plants out of the market.
Can indonesia avoid a capital distaster?
6 Sep 2019
Indonesia will build a new capital city from scratch in a jungle-covered area with little to no infrastructure and it could be an environmental disaster.
Green is all the go in Ireland
6 Sep 2019
Ireland is about to get a whole lot greener by planting 440 million trees.
Big Food 'failing to face up to role' in emergency
5 Sep 2019
The world’s biggest producers of meat, dairy and seafood are failing to tackle the enormous impact they are having on the planet through deforestation, the routine use of antibiotics and greenhouse gas emissions, a report warns.
Don't leave crisis to 'neanderthals', says Kerry
5 Sep 2019
Humanity risks marching off a cliff unless governments take immediate action to fight the climate emergency, says former US secretary of state John Kerry.
Europe facing dramatic farmland devaluation
5 Sep 2019
Climate change could turn the entire EU agribusiness upside down, according to the European Environment Agency.
Belt and Road could weaken global 2deg target
4 Sep 2019
China’s multi-trillion dollar global investment plans could blow the 2deg warming limit set by the Paris Agreement without curbs on pollution, a new study says.
Trump wants to log Alaska
4 Sep 2019
As Amazon wildfires blaze, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, in Alaska, faces a wholly different threat: corporate exploitation.
Doctors declare climate health emergency
4 Sep 2019
The Australian Medical Association has formally declared climate change a health emergency, pointing to “clear scientific evidence indicating severe impacts for patients and communities now and into the future”.
HELLISH LAS VEGAS: 'A place where we never go outside'
4 Sep 2019
In Las Vegas, a laissez-faire attitude toward growth has allowed high temperatures to become more deadly and the scorching heat now threatens the city’s basic functionality.
What does '12 years left to act' really mean?
3 Sep 2019
Where does the idea of the planet having 11 or 12 years left to act on climate change come from, and what does it actually mean?
Where are the architects who will put the environment first?
3 Sep 2019
Should we stop building airports? Return to mud and thatch? The climate crisis is an opportunity for creative thinking, but the values of architecture need a radical overhaul.
Europe confounds warming predictions
3 Sep 2019
Climate change is raising temperatures in Europe even faster than climate models projected.
Oil refinery fire at key Victoria facility
16 Apr 2026
Explosions and towering flames were reported as a significant fire broke out at one of Australia’s major oil refineries.
Trump takes a ‘wrecking ball’ to independent scientific advisory board
Thu 30 Apr 2026
Without the impartial oversight of its board, the National Science Foundation is now “fully at the behest of the White House,” experts warn.
China’s leadership calls for ‘strict control’ of fossil fuels
Tue 28 Apr 2026
Chinese government leaders published a policy document on 22 April – Earth Day – calling for stricter controls on fossil-fuel consumption and greater oversight of heavy emitters.
EU faces ‘China shock’ as EV imports drive Beijing’s record surplus with bloc
Fri 1 May 2026
The EU is experiencing a prolonged “China shock” as a flood of Chinese EVs into Europe helped push Beijing to a record surplus with the bloc.
UK scientists to fire salt water into the sky in bid to tackle climate crisis
Fri 1 May 2026
Government supporting new geoengineering techniques as race against unregulated companies seeking to capitalise on need for climate cooling tech heats up.
Canada, Alberta close in on carbon price agreement, sources say
Wed 29 Apr 2026
Canada and Alberta are expected to strike a deal in the next two weeks that will increase the price on carbon for the province's industrial emitters, but a broader agreement to tackle oil sands greenhouse gases and green-light a new crude oil export pipeline remains elusive.
India submits new climate action pledges to UN body, flags condition to fulfil promise
Wed 29 Apr 2026
India has formally submitted its pledge to the UN climate body, underline importing conditions noting the developing countries' committments cannot be fulfilled without adequate support in terms of finance and technology transfer.
Tuvalu to host world leaders before COP31 summit
16 Apr 2026
Tuvalu, the Pacific nation at the forefront of the global climate crisis, will host a special meeting of world leaders before this year’s Cop31 summit, as the conference president expresses “complete faith” in Chris Bowen to lead tough negotiations.
Drowned chicks and food scarcity: Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered
13 Apr 2026
The primary drivers are shrinking sea ice and warming oceans driven by climate change.
Rationing power and diluting petrol – how African countries are coping with effects of Iran war
30 Mar 2026
Countries across Africa have taken measures such as diluting petrol and restricting electricity consumption to cope with the fuel crisis triggered by the US and Israel's war in Iran.
Beef production drives 40% of agriculture-linked forest destruction, Brazil leads
26 Mar 2026
Beef production is the leading driver of agriculture-linked deforestation, accounting for 40% of all forest clearing done to open space for food production, according to details of a study released on Tuesday.
Extreme heat threatens global food systems, UN agencies warn
23 Apr 2026
Extreme heat is pushing global agrifood systems to the brink, threatening the livelihoods and health of more than a billion people, according to a new report by the U.N.'s food and weather agencies.
