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As EV sales slump Elon Musk comes up Trumps
At the risk of turning off the fans who jumped first for EVs, Elon Musk has dug in with the world’s most prominent climate sceptic: Donald Trump.
- by Nick O'Malley
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How climate change accelerated spring winds
Australia’s two jet streams – the subtropical jet and the polar jet – have combined over the south-east of the continent.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Weather
‘Astonishing intensity of heat’: Australia just recorded its hottest ever winter’s day
A freakishly hot end to winter has sent national climate records tumbling, sparked wildfires around NSW, and led to early closures and patchy snow at many ski resorts.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Bianca Hall
Winter blues: Melbourne endures its darkest season yet
Melbourne’s winter was a lesson in extremes: darker, warmer and wetter. What can it tell us about our changing climate, and what summer might bring?
- by Bianca Hall, Hannah Kennelly and Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Pacific in peril: UN urges Australia to block new coal and gas projects
The United Nations issued a global SOS on Tuesday, releasing new data showing global sea-level rises have doubled since the 1990s.
- by Bianca Hall
Why half a million Australian properties could be all-but uninsurable
If your plane had a one-in-four chance of falling from the sky, would you still get on the flight? That’s the question property owners are being asked.
- by Bianca Hall
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Climate crisis
Doomist or realist? Meet the scientist who says the climate collapse has already begun
Jem Bendell was made famous by his paper Deep Adaptation, in which he argued that climate collapse was inevitable. Now he says it has already begun.
- by Nick O'Malley
The deadly storm that sank a superyacht: What is a waterspout?
Fast, dramatic and impossible to predict, some waterspouts can hit 400km/h. One of these destructive beasts likely led to the Bayesian tragedy.
- by Angus Dalton
The ‘hidden treasure’ buried under the sand at popular eastern suburbs beach
A beautiful yet ephemeral cove has been uncovered after the coast copped a lashing from winter storms.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
State’s climate future revealed: Success is hot and failure is hotter
NSW climate modelling used by government and councils includes a low-emissions scenario for the first time alongside the more pessimistic forecast.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Heat records are toppling in the northern hemisphere. What does it mean for Australia’s summer?
Temperatures have topped 50 degrees in 10 countries around the world in the past year, but Australia could experience a cooler, wetter summer.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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