Climate Change

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

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.

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The proposed Federal nature watchdog risks being an expensive, bloated bureaucracy that is unaccountable and highly secretive, a conservative think tank has warned.

A climate trigger is looming as an ‘ever-present threat’ that is stifling industry confidence as the Government revamps environmental laws, the nation’s peak mining body has warned.

Federal Labor is considering adding new layers of bureaucracy to its ‘Nature Positive’ reforms, reigniting concern the industry battle with Anthony Albanese and his team over the policy is far from over.

DAVID KOCH: Our digital footprint is worse than flying when it comes to carbon emissions.

The Great Barrier Reef needs urgent and sustained action to save it from the impact of climate change and other threats, UNESCO has told Australia.

Nationals leader David Littleproud says the full details of the Coalition’s nuclear policy will be announced ‘very soon’ with power plants targeted in National Party seats, as the climate wars heat up again.