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This tree fell onto a restaurant in the Brisbane suburb of Teneriffe during Cyclone Alfred.

Insurance claims for wild weather damage this year already exceed 2024 total

One major insurer has received 32,000 claims for wild-weather-related damage to both vehicles and property between January and May this year, more than for the whole of last year.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Nick O'Malley

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People braving the cold weather on the St Kilda foreshore.

We were promised a warm winter. So why is it so cold?

If you believe the weather bureau, Australia is expecting a warm, wet winter. If you believe your own senses when stepping outside, it is distinctly chilly.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The exceptionally warm oceans are making heat waves worse, disrupting marine life and destroying coral reefs.

‘Fast running out of time to turn the tide’: Australia at sea in vast marine heatwave

The World Meteorological Organisation has confirmed 2024 was the hottest year on record in the south-west Pacific, breaking the previous record set in 2023.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Nick O'Malley

Denial is hard to grasp in the city. In flooded Taree, it’s bewildering

The people most affected by natural disasters in Australia are represented by the people who are most likely to deny that human activity has changed our climate.

  • Malcolm Knox
“The Albanese government’s decisive victory creates a historic opportunity to shift thinking and acting from the short to the long term.”

Net zero has been ground zero for energy ambition. What a chance we have now

The Albanese government’s decisive victory creates a historic opportunity to shift thinking from the short to the long term on energy and climate policy.

  • Ross Garnaut
Woodside chief executive Meg O’Neill faced another shareholder AGM backlash over the oil and gas group’s climate policies.

Australia’s biggest gas company roasted for going soft on emissions

Investors, including big industry super funds, have staged another revolt at Woodside’s annual general meeting which was disrupted by a contingent of protesters.

  • Nick Toscano and Angus Delaney
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Peter Malinauskas: “this is bigger than Ben Hur”. Pictured here with Clare O’Neil and Anthony Albanese.

If COP climate summit comes to Australia, this city would be the perfect host

As a centre with a story to tell in tackling the challenges of climate change, Adelaide is a prime contender to co-host the COP climate summit next year.

  • Nick O'Malley
Scientists are hoping to find a way to save the coral on the Great Barrier Reef from climate change.

This is the heartbeat of efforts to save a global icon. Is it too late?

A new generation of scientists are refusing to give up on the Great Barrier Reef.

  • Angus Dalton and Janie Barrett
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Confirmed: 2024 was the hottest year on record in the air and the oceans

Although warming around the world rose last year, the United Nations’ lead climate agency says there is still time to act.

  • Nick O'Malley
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton have traded barbs.

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.

  • Ross Gittins

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