Environment
Climate change
Black Summer bushfire smoke likely triggered record flooding
Smoke from the Black Summer bushfires increased cloud cover over the Pacific, cooled sea surface temperatures and likely influenced the formation of the rare triple La Nina weather pattern.
- by Miki Perkins
Latest
In autumn, sea temperatures fall. Not this year
As the southern autumn began, average global sea surface temperatures were the highest ever recorded, prompting scientists to fear La Nina has hidden a hot secret.
- by Nick O'Malley
NT approves Beetaloo gas fracking despite climate fears
Onshore fracking has been given the green light in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin despite claims from traditional owners and environmental groups that key safeguards are not in place.
- by Miki Perkins
Seabed drilling kick-starts Australia’s offshore wind race
A specialist drill vessel will spend the next five weeks at in the Bass Strait collecting soil and rock samples from up to 70 metres below the sea floor to survey the feasibility of offshore wind.
- by Miki Perkins
Hybrid to hell: How Toyota went from green darling to activist target
Once the world leader in clean driving technology, Toyota has slipped behind competitors and now stands accused of seeking to slow the industry’s transition.
- by Nick O'Malley
Lashed by solar flares and rising CFCs, the ozone layer isn’t safe yet
Five ozone-depleting CFCs, banned under the Montreal Protocol, are rising in concentration as the sun approaches an 11-year peak of activity.
- by Angus Dalton
A critical Antarctic current has scientists talking about The Day After Tomorrow
Antarctic forces that drive nutrients from the deep sea to the surface, regulate global rainfall and draw down carbon could slow by 42 per cent by 2050.
- by Angus Dalton
Opinion
Climate policy
Greens’ capitulation represents Labor’s biggest victory over minor party
After a decade on the back foot on climate policy, Labor have regained the upper hand by successfully browbeating the Greens into supporting their election policy with only minor changes.
- by Osman Faruqi
Analysis
Climate policy
The Greens and Labor have made a deal on emissions. What changed?
The government and the Greens have both declared victory after long negotiations about key climate policy. What really changed? And what is a safeguard mechanism?
- by Nick O'Malley
Opinion
IPCC
While you fight climate wars, we lose the climate battle
The real climate war threatens our lives and livelihoods. It must swiftly and unilaterally end. Nature will not negotiate.
- by Penny Sackett and Chris Barrie
Analysis
Climate policy
Our last climate chance: Act now on ‘everything, everywhere, all at once’
There is grim reading in the UN’s final warning to world leaders in the last decade we have to act, but there is also a clear set of directions. And hope.
- by Nick O'Malley