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‘Unpatriotic’: Kate Holden’s cheeky claim about husband Tim Flannery’s saucy tastes

The writers met at a book awards night in 2006. Years later, she realised he fitted her “list”.

  • Tim Elliott

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Scientists have unveiled three new species of monotreme, including the enigmatic “echidnapus”.

Meet the ‘echidnapus’, a bizarre blend of the world’s strangest creatures

Scientists led by Tim Flannery have unearthed evidence for a previously unknown “age of monotremes” when egg-laying mammals dominated Australia.

  • Angus Dalton
Tim Flannery.

‘Heat waves are the killer’: Tim Flannery warns of deadly risk over summer

The chief counsellor for the Climate Council features in a new documentary about the need for more leadership to tackle climate change.

  • Garry Maddox
Our reviewers cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction.

What to read: A tale of heaven and hell, and the end of a giant shark

Our reviewers cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction.

  • Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp
ANU Professor Will Steffen has been remembered as a leading climate scientist.

‘Driving force’: Tributes flow for giant of Australian climate science

Professor Will Steffen has been remembered for his contribution to science, but also his kindness and optimism.

  • Laura Chung
Professor Kris Helgen (left) and Professor Tim Flannery with examples of modern mammal skulls on display at the Australian Museum following the publication of a recent scientific paper and the local discovery of an early mammalian jaw bone prompting the Scientist’s to posit a theory of mammals migrating out from the Southern Hemisphere.

‘Remarkable Australian story’: Tiny Jurassic teeth rewrite history of mammals

A controversial research paper argues the ancestors of the world’s mammals, including humans, evolved in Australia and the southern hemisphere.

  • Liam Mannix and Angus Dalton
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An exploratory gas well on Tanumburini Station, part of the proposed Beetaloo Basin gas projext.

Scientists raise the heat on Labor over climate impacts of coal and gas

While the new Labor government has enjoyed general support from the scientific community over its climate policy, pressure is increasing for more ambition.

  • Nick O'Malley
Angus Taylor and Scott Morrison in Glasgow.

Australia, an embarrassing handbrake on COP’s nobler ambitions

Australia’s utter failure to rise to the challenge at COP26 in Glasgow has entrenched our international reputation as a climate action outlier.

  • Tim Flannery and Simon Bradshaw
Once again, Australia is the holdout among developed nations when it comes to commitments on emissions.

Australia is running dead last among rich nations in the most important race humanity has ever faced

Ten days out from the global climate summit, Australia is again acting like a handbrake. No other developed nation has performed as badly in terms of past emissions or commitments to cut them.

  • Tim Flannery
Tim Flannery searches for fossils on the side of the road in the Upper Hunter of NSW in April.

‘Vindicated’ Tim Flannery unfazed by climate change critics

The 2007 Australian of the Year was one of the first people to warn of the dangers of climate change. He says we still have time to stop climate change.

  • Peter FitzSimons

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