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Dams have taken half the water from Australia’s second biggest river – and climate change will make it even worse

Today 10:30am - The largest wetland on Australia’s second longest river, the Murrumbidgee in the southern Murray-Darling Basin, is drying up. This is bad news for the plants, animals and people who rely on the vast Lowbidgee Floodplain.

Landmark court case sees activist group sue gas giant Santos for allegedly misleading investors

30 Oct 24 - Gas giant Santos told investors it had a clear plan to achieve net zero emissions by 2040 but had no evidence to back it up, the Federal Court has heard during the first morning of litigation against the gas giant.

COP this – gas is not a climate solution

30 Oct 24 - Hosting COP31 climate talks is an opportunity to showcase South Australia to the world, writes Belinda Noble, but not if we allow it to promote gas.

Why the time is right for Australia’s second shot at carbon pricing

25 Oct 24 - By Ross Garnaut | OPINION: Australia now has a government and parliament wanting to build Australia as the renewable energy superpower of the zero-carbon world economy.

Qantas accused of greenwashing as climate advocates lodge complaint over sustainability, net zero claims

17 Oct 24 - An environmental advocacy group has lodged a complaint with the consumer watchdog over claims Qantas makes on sustainability and climate.

Electric car sales have slumped. Misinformation is one of the reasons

16 Oct 24 - Battery electric vehicle sales in Australia have flattened in recent months.

Half Australia’s oceans to be protected - more than any other country

11 Oct 24 - Little-known Australian islands that teem with emperor penguins and elephant seals, and have the country’s only two active volcanoes, will be protected with an additional 300,000 square kilometres of marine park.


Coalmines and gasfields may be emitting twice as much methane as declared, report warns

11 Oct 24 - Australia’s coalmines and gasfields may be emitting twice as much methane as they currently declare, underscoring the need to introduce independent reporting of the potent greenhouse gas, an energy...

Australia suffers setback in green hydrogen race

10 Oct 24 - Australia’s bid to become a global hydrogen superpower has been dealt a blow, with the nation’s biggest energy utility pulling out of building a large-scale green hydrogen hub despite the project...

Australian Security Leaders Climate Group calls on federal govt to overhaul climate threat preparedness

9 Oct 24 - The danger of climate change has led to calls for a radical overhaul of how the federal government is planning to manage climate threats.

Our leaders are collaborating with fossil fuel colonialists

4 Oct 24 - By Tim Winton | COMMENT: The lassitude that distinguishes our moment is born of sorrow and buried rage. We act like colonial subjects because, in effect, that’s what we are

Australia’s ‘immoral’ coalmine decision akin to drowning its Pacific neighbours, Tuvalu’s climate minister declares

1 Oct 24 - Tuvalu’s climate minister says Australia’s decision to approve three coalmine expansions calls into question its claim to be a “member of the Pacific family”, and undermines the Australian case to...

Define ‘tree’: The fight over Woolworths’ eco-beef pledge

27 Sep 24 - Woolworths’ ban on beef reared on deforested land has prompted Australian farmers to campaign for rules to define the practice that would allow them to chop down trees as part of their land...

Not enough demand: Big batteries in Aus may be told to stand by on empty to avoid rooftop solar switch-off

26 Sep 24 - The Australian Energy Market Operator is poised to introduce a significant shift in operating protocols that would involve instructing big batteries to stand by on empty to help address periods of...

'Why are carbon offsets not dead yet?'

26 Sep 24 - Journalist and environmental activist George Monbiot discusses neoliberalism, nature, and negative consequences with the Australia Institute's Climate and Energy program director.

New book exposes just how long, and hard, the fossil fuel industry has worked to advance its interests

25 Sep 24 - As freelance journalist Royce Kurmelovs points out in his new book Slick: Australia’s Toxic Relationship with Big Oil, most people underestimate just how far in advance the fossil fuel industry plans...

Climate change threatens Australian tourism more than is widely believed. Here’s why

23 Sep 24 - Right now, Australia is one of the top five tourist destinations in the world, a distinction the World Economic Forum says it shares with only the United States, France, Spain and Japan.

Cop31 is a chance for Australia to go from climate laggard to global leader

20 Sep 24 - OPINION: Australia’s bid to co-host the UN’s climate conference is not just a diplomatic event; it is a pivotal opportunity to redefine the nation’s role in the global fight against climate change.

Almost 68% of Australia’s tourism sites at major risk if climate crisis continues, report says

13 Sep 24 - Uluru, the Daintree and Bondi beach among locations that could be impacted if planet hits even 2C of warming by 2050.


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