11 Dec 2020

In a summer that was supposed to be unusually cool and wet, Australian builder Rob Lye did not expect to be trapped by a bushfire on sub-tropical Fraser Island...

10 Dec 2020

More frequent devastating bushfire seasons, like the one that tore through Australia last summer, will become a stark part of our reality, experts warn.

9 Dec 2020

It’s not just your storage unit that’s packed to the gills. According to a new study, the mass of all our stuff—buildings, roads, cars, and everything else we...

9 Dec 2020

With federal leadership on a net zero 2050 target missing, state and territory governments are tackling the the climate crisis themselves.

8 Dec 2020

The Australian government appears to be backing away from a plan to use carryover credits to meet its Paris climate obligations, as international pressure...

8 Dec 2020

At the height of last summer's bushfires, Alan Nichols vividly remembers racing out of his holiday unit, loaded up with essentials. A fire was rapidly...

8 Dec 2020

It's still not clear whether Prime Minister Scott Morrison will be speaking at a global virtual summit on climate change this weekend.

4 Dec 2020

Australia’s generosity in responding to the immediate COVID-19 crisis in the Pacific has been welcomed by the region. This should not obscure how the behaviour...

4 Dec 2020

2020 will be one of the three warmest years on record globally, according to a new State of the Global Climate report from the World Meteorological...

4 Dec 2020

Sarah Milne talks about how infrastructure built for sustainable needs are harming the environment.

4 Dec 2020

Christian Downie talks about the politics of climate change. Why do we fail, why when pursed for policies related to climate change fail, why current policies...

3 Dec 2020

Australian research voyage to investigate how life in the Southern Ocean captures and stores carbon from the atmosphere.