Climate Change

Anthony Albanese has rejected suggestions approving a major gas project off WA will jeopardise Pacific relations and declared he will ‘act in Australia’s interests’ despite criticism from Vanuatu.

Chris Bowen is caught between business warnings Australia cannot afford an emissions target much above 70 per cent and an internal Labor push to make that the baseline.

Energy Minister Chris Bowen has sent a blunt warning to a group of Australians that do not agree with the Albanese Government’s renewables rollout, saying he is blocking out their ‘noise’.

Global talks to slash plastic production and the toxic chemicals used to produce plastic products fell apart in Geneva this week.

We need a dedicated response and recovery corps so the ADF can get on with its real job

With five years left of Earth’s ‘decisive decade’, Sam Elsom speaks about the headwinds and heartbreak of finding solutions in a world often indifferent to what he sees as the most pressing issue for us all.

It’ll be a big ask to hit clean energy targets and ensure power is reliable and affordable.

The resources sector fears a stealth implementation of Labor’s nature positive plan is underway despite the Government pulling legislation to establish an environmental watchdog.

Industry leaders have urged the nation’s politicians to centre Australia’s post-election energy decisions on science and economics rather than engage in fractious partisan debate. 

The much-maligned proposal for an independent Federal environmental watchdog will be formally put down on Wednesday when both the Government and Opposition move to take it off Parliament’s agenda.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has accused the Prime Minister of playing a ‘two-card trick’ over the so-called Nature Positive laws, despite warnings the bill is a ‘threat to jobs’.

Donald Trump has referred to climate change as a ‘scam’ and a hoax’, so it should come at no surprise that the ‘drill, baby, drill’ Republican is preparing to make some climate protection changes.

The economic cost of the LA wildfires is yet to be fully tallied, but is expected to be the most costly fire-related natural disaster the United States has ever seen. This is how it will affect Australia.

Destructive fires in the US could drive up Australians' insurance premiums as the frequency and scale of natural disasters increases across the world.

Floods and droughts are among the deadliest threats, scientists warn in a report calling for better preparedness as climate change alters the world water cycle.