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The Hellisheidi geothermal power plant in Iceland is the world’s largest commercial direct air-capture plant.

The new climate gold rush? Sucking carbon from the sky

As countries continue to pump planet-warming pollution into the skies the financial world is racing to fund the emerging field of carbon dioxide removal.

  • David Gelles and Christopher Flavelle

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Clearcut forest in Clouds Creek in 2022, within the area proposed to be part of the Great Koala National Park.

The government promised a koala national park. Then the loggers moved in

Forests on the North Coast are earmarked for a national park to protect “the best patch of koala habitat in the world”, but the area is still being logged in epic proportions.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Professor Ian Chubb says the Clean Energy Regulator’s contact with CSIRO was ‘entirely inappropriate’.

‘Entirely inappropriate’: Top scientist slams watchdog interference in carbon review

Professor Ian Chubb led the review of Australia’s lucrative carbon credits market and he’s far from happy with the conduct of a government agency at the middle of it.

  • Charlotte Grieve and Michael Bachelard
Huge fossil fuel companies are spending millions on carbon-offset companies and projects, raising concerns among industry insiders and experts.

‘Perverse’: Woodside, Shell spend millions getting into offset game

Fossil fuel producers are buying large stakes in carbon companies and land to run their own carbon offset projects. Experts and insiders want that banned.

  • Charlotte Grieve and Simone Fox Koob
Clean Energy Regulator has chronic problems with managing conflicts. 

‘Extreme risk’: Carbon watchdog mismanaged conflicts, ‘intimidated’ scientists

Hundreds of pages of previously confidential material reveal the regulator responsible for managing billions of dollars in taxpayer funds, as well as millions of carbon offsets, has serious governance issues.

  • Charlotte Grieve and Simone Fox Koob
Described as a vacuum cleaner to suck carbon from the sky, the machine named Mammoth was launched in May.

Should Australia house a giant vacuum cleaner to suck carbon from the sky?

Removing carbon from the atmosphere to save us from climate change is a controversial notion, but faith is growing in some new technologies.

  • Nick O'Malley
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Wind is no longer Australia’s second-favourite source of power.

The accounting trick at the heart of the world’s climate goals

On paper we can offset our way to net zero. In the real world, we cannot.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Alasdair MacLeod

How Rupert Murdoch’s son-in-law solved crisis at family farm

Alasdair MacLeod was regularly escaping to the country with his young family when he realised something was going horribly wrong there – and needed a radical solution.

  • Catherine Naylor
Rod Sims and Ross Garnaut at the National Press Club this week.

We can’t escape a carbon tax, which is good news, not bad

In their own polite way, Professor Ross Garnaut and Rod Sims this week spoke out against the blatant self-interest of our fossil fuel industry.

  • Ross Gittins
John Howard talks to then Labor leader Simon Crean in the House of Representatives in August 2003. Days later, Howard would convince his cabinet to dump support for an emissions trading scheme.

Why John Howard intervened to kill the emissions trading scheme his cabinet wanted

Cabinet documents reveal the Howard government went close to supporting a carbon price in 2003. They also show why it was killed off.

  • Shane Wright

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