Climate Change

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.

Scientists say human-caused climate change added an average of 41 days of dangerous heat worldwide in 2024.

Australia's summer weather perils have arrived with heatwave conditions in the south and heavy rain forecast in the north.

An analysis of the way some of the biggest superannuation funds vote at shareholder meetings suggests they're backing down over the expansion of oil and gas.

Anthony Albanese personally intervened to kill off a deal his environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, was trying to make with the Greens over a proposed Federal EPA. Here’s what went down behind the scenes.

Labor and the Greens are edging toward a shock deal to create a new Environment Protection Agency as they look to pass the bill in Federal Parliament’s frantic final sitting week of the year. 

Countries have clinched a deal to inject $US300 billion annually to combat climate change and help poor nations cope with the impact of global warming.

ANDREW CARSWELL: Do Australians want to address climate change? Yes, of course. Duh! Do they want to pay for it? Pass the peanuts. Now they actually know they’re paying for it. They feel it. 

More than two-thirds of parents are worried about rising insurance costs pushed higher by climate change.