4 Nov 2020

A tougher line on China has become bipartisan wisdom in the US in recent years but Donald Trump and Joe Biden have different ways they will seek to confront...

2 Nov 2020

The Bushfire Royal Commission report released last week put climate change at the front and centre of its analysis, if not its recommendations. But as...

2 Nov 2020

The climate crisis has become a key issue not just for American voters in this US election - but people across the world.

31 Oct 2020

Three of Australia’s biggest trading partners have recently committed to go ‘carbon-neutral’. Experts say it’s the greatest shift in climate politics since the...

28 Oct 2020

We will remember 2020 as a year of crisis. COVID-19 hit Australia just as we were beginning to make sense of the horror bushfires and smoke of last summer, a...

26 Oct 2020

Emergency responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have had dramatic impacts in the Indo-Pacific region. The COVID-19 shock has reverberated through food systems...

25 Oct 2020

For a century, humans high up in fire towers have sounded the alarm. But breakthroughs in technology may offer something more.

22 Oct 2020

Two North Queensland teenagers will today present the federal government with new expert ­evidence and “strong” legal grounds to revoke the approval of Adani’s...

22 Oct 2020

Displacement is growing in the Asia-Pacific region, and a new policy paper argues migration policies must be established now.

22 Oct 2020

Japan, the biggest international buyer of Australian coal and gas exports, is set to accelerate its efforts towards decarbonisation with new prime minister...

20 Oct 2020

Former PM says Australia risks becoming ‘the complacent country’ and could suffer another recession if it remains tied to fossil fuels.

19 Oct 2020

Our special report examines the role of renewables, nuclear power and carbon capture in reaching this ambitious goal.