Climate Change

Britain has urged Australia to have ‘greater ambition’ as it weighs up its next steps on climate policy, as experts warn the Trump presidency will make that even more crucial.

Australia urged to show climate leadership by UK, experts

Britain has urged Australia to have ‘greater ambition’ as it weighs up its next steps on climate policy, as experts warn the Trump presidency will make that even more crucial.

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Tanya Plibersek insists environment talks are ongoing with the Greens and the Coalition despite the Opposition saying there has been “stunning silence”.

‘Silence’: Plibersek insists environment talks still ongoing

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek insists she is still in talks over the Government’s planned environmental watchdog despite the Opposition warning there has been ‘stunning silence’ on the legislation.

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BoM has warned Australians to brace for the upcoming ‘severe weather season’ and prepare their homes, properties, and emergency plans.

Cyclones, thunderstorms and heatwaves: ‘Severe’ weather warning issued for Australia

Australia could be staring down some of the most severe weather in history in the coming months.

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Environment Minister will tout her Government’s Natura Positive laws at a summit despite them stalling in Canberra.

Plibersek in nature positive push as laws stall in Canberra

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek will use this week’s global green summit to tout the Government’s ‘really good progress’ in turning Australia nature positive, as Labor’s green agenda remains in doubt.

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Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek and opposition spokesman Jonathon Duniam.

Labor touts nature positive talkfest despite failing agenda

Tanya Plibersek will use this week’s global green summit to tout the Government’s ‘really good progress’ in turning Australia nature positive — despite Labor’s environmental agenda teetering on the brink.

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Anthony Albanese was forced to defend Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek (pictured) over the Government’s controversial Nature Positive law negotiations.

Stalemate could torpedo centrepiece of Nature Positive plan

Greens leader Adam Bandt won’t relent on a ‘climate trigger’ as Labor scrambles to salvage the Nature Positive Plan and Anthony Albanese denies he made a captain’s call on the controversial laws.

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Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has dropped demands for a ‘climate trigger’ in negotiations with the Albanese Government on the proposed Nature Positive laws.

Greens drop ‘climate trigger’ demand in Nature Positive laws

The Greens and independents are offering an alternative path for Labor to pass laws to create its Environmental Protection Agency.

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Forecast temperature and wind at 4pm AEST on Friday, August 30.

Millions of Aussies to be hit by ‘scorching end to winter’

The Bureau of Meteorology warned we were in for a ‘scorching end to winter’ even before monthly heat records toppled at the weekend. And it’s not stopping anytime soon.

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But the end of Earth’s streak of excessively hot temperatures does not diminish the mounting threat of climate change.

Earth’s record heat streak has ended, so what now?

Global warming has consistently toppled records for warm global average temperatures in recent decades, until now. But the end of this streak does not diminish the mounting threat of climate change.

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The world’s largest iceberg, named A23a, near Antarctica in April 2024.

Why is the world’s largest iceberg spinning in the ocean?

Five times the size of New York City’s land area and more than 300 meters deep, the mammoth piece of ice finally became loose in 2020, and now it is ‘spinning around’.

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Australia’s climate lobby groups have gone nuclear, and not in a good way, writes Andrew Carswell.

Bullies become bullied as climate lobby groups get banned

ANDREW CARSWELL: For the second time in a few weeks, the Australian Conservation Foundation’s X account was suspended for breaching the rules that determine what is factual. Their reaction has been hysterical.

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AMEC's Warren Pearce, CME's Rebecca Tomkinson and CCIWA's Aaron Morey outside Parliament House ahead of the hearing.

Business groups slam Nature Positive laws in fiery hearing

Australia’s businesses are increasingly united against Federal Labor’s radical environmental law reforms, with one lobby group boss stating job opportunities will be whittled down to taxis and cafes.

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Shadow Energy Minister Ted O’Brien (left) and current minister Chris Bowen (right) are squaring off on both sides’ differing power policies.

Pollies’ power struggle heats up as energy divide deepens

Both Labor and Coalition heavyweights have reignited the climate debate amid raging rhetoric on renewables and nuclear energy.

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The Warren Pearce-led industry group emphasised there would be “severe implications” for new mining projects.

How ‘severe’ Nature Positive laws could cripple mining

The Association of Mining and Exploration Companies has argued the furore about a lack of consultation on Nature Positive has masked real concerns from industry about the contents of the contested reform.

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A report from conservative think tank IPA has revealed how much a climate trigger could cost the Australian economy.

Eye-watering economic cost of climate trigger revealed

A climate trigger would put more than $220 billion worth of economic investment at risk, according to new research from conservative think tank IPA.

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