16 Dec 2020

China has accused Australia of playing the victim in their worsening dispute and defended an alleged ban on Australian coal.

15 Dec 2020

Any smartphone-wielding Australian can become eyes on the ground for researchers piecing together how bushfire-razed regions are faring, a year on from deadly...

15 Dec 2020

A violent storm is expected to continue lashing across 1000 kilometres of Australia’s east coast on Tuesday, with climate experts warning more extreme weather...

15 Dec 2020

Australian team looking for answers in marine snow.

15 Dec 2020

Canberra’s record season of sneezing is coming to end, with one of our leading environmental scientists declaring the run of high pollen days is over … for now.

15 Dec 2020

Parts of northern NSW and Queensland are battling severe storms brought on by wild La Niña weather. As climate change ramps up, experts say these extreme...

15 Dec 2020

More than half of the country experienced record fire danger levels last spring in the lead-up to the devastating summer bushfires, research has revealed, as...

14 Dec 2020

Australia’s fire season looms and researchers are looking to move beyond ‘detecting fires with people in towers and binoculars’.

14 Dec 2020

Around 40,000 years ago, Aboriginal communities across Sahul – Australia, New Guinea, Tasmania and what are now many smaller islands – used fire to create open...

12 Dec 2020

There is plenty of headroom for Australia to be more ambitious with its emissions reduction targets.

11 Dec 2020

As the world prepares to emerge from the pandemic with the new vaccine hopes, European nations are contemplating more climate neutral economic recovery. But...

11 Dec 2020

Anastasia Kapetas speaks with Dr Christian Downie, Australian Research Council Fellow at the Australian National University. They discuss Biden’s climate goals...