Environment
Climate change
The maps that reveal how climate disasters are driving up insurance premiums in Sydney
The accelerating risk of climate disasters including floods, bushfires and storms means Sydneysiders in some parts of the city are paying over three times more for home insurance than others.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Opinion
Climate policy
Their profit, our cost: Should fossil fuel companies pay for climate disasters?
As climate change bites and insurance costs increase, a growing chorus is demanding that fossil fuel companies start paying for the chaos.
- by Nick O'Malley
Opinion
Climate policy
More cyclones will come. How many before our leaders finally do something?
Albanese and Dutton will lose votes to the two groups who really care about the great challenge we face: climate change.
- by Ross Gittins
Climate action is locked in despite Trump, says former US climate envoy
Jonathan Pershing, one of the world’s most prominent climate diplomats, believes climate action will survive Trump. The question is how many lives his delay will cost.
- by Nick O'Malley
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Extreme weather
From Coffs Harbour to Noosa, some of our most famous beaches have been lost
Authorities will bring sand to tourist hotspots, but the affected stretches will take months to recover. Environmental experts are more worried about damage to dunes.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Love your Tesla but can’t stand Musk? Sales data says you’re not alone
“When he stood up and made that ‘Sieg Heil’ salute, something just clicked, and I thought: ‘I just cannot, cannot drive a Tesla’.”
- by Bianca Hall
‘Like preparing to fight a war’: Can we stop a cyclone in its tracks?
Scientists are dusting off Cold War-era research into weather manipulation as climate change intensifies and makes cyclones more dangerous.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
‘As far south as Sydney’: Why cyclones are growing deadlier and heading our way
As south-east Queensland and northern NSW brace for Cyclone Alfred to make landfall this week, climate scientists warn tropical cyclones are moving further from the tropics and bringing more flood risk.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Heatwaves, fires, torrential rain, fish kills: Australia’s summer of climate extremes
The weather bureau is forecasting a hot autumn across most of Australia, after an unusually hot summer marked by natural disasters.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Opinion
Climate policy
Why the Coalition should stop trying to silence nuclear power critics
Attacking the Climate Change Authority, as the Coalition did this week, will not change the price of nuclear nor the cost of coal.
- by Nick O'Malley
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Climate crisis
World urged to stay the course on climate action as Trump turns away
Europe’s top official on climate action says the rest of the world must hold steady on decarbonisation and the transition to renewable energy in the face of “global turmoil”.
- by Bianca Hall and Nick O'Malley
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