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F1 environmental impact

How Formula 1 is trying to cut its carbon emissions, on and off the track

Less than 1 per cent of F1’s total carbon footprint comes from the cars on track. What will it take to make the sport more environmentally friendly?

  • Gemma Grant

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese briefing media about Cyclone Alfred from the National Situation Room in Canberra.

‘More frequent, intense’: PM puts climate front and centre for election

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says global warming makes weather events more extreme and that not cutting emissions carries a significant cost.

  • Mike Foley
Liberal candidate for Gilmore Andrew Constance inadvertently helped a teal fundraising push.

How Andrew Constance helped boost $1m teal fundraising blitz

The former NSW Liberal frontbencher turned federal candidate said on Monday a Dutton government would not set a 2035 climate target. He has already walked back the comments.

  • Alexandra Smith and Mike Foley
Emissions have flatlined since the government was elected, due in part to a bounce back from the pandemic.

Fact check: Have emissions risen under the Albanese government?

Emissions reduction has flat-lined since the government was elected, due in part to a bounce-back from the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Mike Foley
Emil Davey, Matilda Lane-Rose and Jesse Noakes outside Perth Magistrates Court on Monday following their sentencing.

‘Killing our future’: Activists cop thousands in fines for protest at Woodside boss’ home

Protesters have been slapped with thousands in fines after a protest that upped the stakes in the environmental opposition to Woodside’s operations in WA’s north.

  • Jesinta Burton
Steve Blore was the pin-up boy for Climate Friendly. Until the rules changed.

‘Parasites’, ‘cowboys’: The carbon companies dividing rural Australia

Carbon developers descended on rural Australia 10 years ago promising big money and an easy fix to complex problems. Today, farmers are crying foul.

  • Charlotte Grieve and Michael Bachelard
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Using mulga forests to save carbon is under fresh scrutiny.

Dust and dead trees: The reality of Australia’s biggest carbon saver

The nation has made a multibillion-dollar bet that carbon locked in desert scrub will offset emissions elsewhere, but doubters - from scientists in the city to the farmers on the land - are growing.

  • Michael Bachelard, Charlotte Grieve and The Visual Stories Team
The industry group representing property owners has expressed concern about the integrity of the carbon offset market.

One hundred ‘carbon-neutral’ corporates quit government scheme over integrity concerns

Mounting doubts that carbon offsets may not stand up to scrutiny have driven an exodus from the federal government-managed system.

  • Michael Bachelard
Santos’ Moomba carbon capture and storage project in South Australia.

Why Japan’s power plants want to bury their emissions in the outback

The start-up of a giant project to bury carbon dioxide in the desert has given Santos greater confidence as it progresses talks with Japan’s big emitters.

  • Nick Toscano
Penny Nelson recently bought a Toyota Rav 4 hybrid vehicle.

They’re cleaner and greener, so why won’t the government give hybrids tax breaks?

Australians bought 172,696 traditional hybrids – which have a diesel or petrol engine as well as an electric motor – last year, up 76 per cent on 2023.

  • Mike Foley

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