Climate Change

EDITORIAL: We need effective, practical ways to reduce carbon emissions and keep warming to a minimum. But please, spare us the hypocritical moralising.

ANDREW CARSWELL: Yep, we’re headed for ecological doom. But have you seen the price of eggs lately?

Investment in pipelines, storage facilities and renewable gases is urgently needed if gas supply is to keep up with demand, the energy market operator says.

Does anyone — other than Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek — actually like the Labor Government’s so-called ‘Nature Positive’ plan to overhaul Australia’s complex environmental laws? 

The moment Europe started doing sensible things on energy and climate, the Albanese Government started seeing other people...

Greta Thunberg, ‘woke’ classrooms and ‘nanny state’ Victoria all came under fire from the former starlet in a wide-ranging podcast chat during which Holly Valance said she’d never come back to Australia.

The Victorian government will make it harder for community opponents to stall renewable energy projects by appealing approvals.

The mining industry is sounding the alarm over the Albanese Government’s controversial plans to ‘radically’ change environmental laws.

After spending most of 2023 with commodity price woes at the top of their risk list, Australia’s largest mining companies are now more worried about their environmental obligations and social licence.

Trees aren’t as good at fighting global warming as we thought. 

A warming planet threatens the world’s favourite drug.

A new study suggests an ancient species of great ape - Gigantopithecus blacki - was likely driven to extinction by environmental changes.

Victorian coastal communities face heightened flood threats caused by climate change-induced sea level rises by the turn of the century, a report forecasts.

Today China is an industrial powerhouse, home to over a quarter of the world’s manufacturing — more than America and Germany combined. But its progress has come at a cost in terms of emissions.

If policies in place today are followed, global warming expected by 2100 could fall by up to 0.5°C. That is still so high as to be disastrous for billions. But it is also a marked improvement.