Environment
Protesters demand miners stop looking for gold in Wombat State Forest
Snap protests against gold exploration have taken place in Wombat State Forest, which government’s environmental assessment body says should be a national park.
- by Miki Perkins
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Weather
National Forecast for Tuesday June 23, 2020
Tuesday June 23: Australia set to shiver as cold fronts push across the country.
Bushfires
Confusing warning system 'risked escalating fire disaster'
Emergency warnings prompted traffic jams in areas later overrun by fires, the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements has heard
- by Nick O'Malley
Weather
Queensland braces for cold weather
Parts of Queensland will experience negative temperatures, thick frost and snow flurries as a cold snap hits the state.
Extreme weather
Town in the Arctic Circle records temperature as hot as Florida
A town in Siberia is likely to have set a record for the hottest temperature in the Arctic Circle, a region that is warming at more than twice the rate of the rest of the globe.
- by Andrew Freedman
Weather
National weather forecast for Monday June 22, 2020
Monday June 22: A low pressure system over the Tasman Sea is expected to generate heavy rain and showers across southeast Australia.
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Emissions
Beefed-up ute sales help to erode vehicle emission fall
Improvements in the carbon emissions intensity of new cars sold in Australia have all but stalled, with a shift to large pick-up trucks mostly nullifying a leap in demand for electric cars.
- by Peter Hannam
Environmental protection
Hazelwood 'pit lake' proposal lacks environmental tick: residents
Gippsland residents have urged the state’s planning minister to order an environmental assessment of a proposal to turn the vast Hazelwood mine pit into a lake, which would take up to 25 years to fill and require almost twice the amount of water Melbourne consumes in a year.
- by Miki Perkins
Weather
National weather forecast for Sunday June 21, 2020
Sunday June 21: A low with troughs and a cold front is set to bring rain, isolated storms, and a cold airmass to southern states.
Weather
National weather forecast for Saturday June 20, 2020
Saturday June 20: There are some cooler weather conditions across the south-east of NSW.
Weather
BOM predicts snow outside Stanthorpe on Tuesday
Snowflakes are again predicted outside Stanthorpe on Tuesday morning as temperatures drop and the weekend moisture lingers.
- by Tony Moore