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Keith Greenbank swelters outside his house in Penrith in 40-degree heat on Friday.

Heatwave conditions predicted for large parts of Australia

Hot, dry and windy weather is fuelling extreme fire danger in south-eastern Australia, marking an ominous start to summer.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Bianca Hall

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The rollout of renewable energy projects and thousands of kilometres of extra power lines to link them to major cities is running behind schedule.

Households face power price hike without urgent renewables push

Australians are being warned of higher power prices from 2030 unless governments speed up the delivery of renewables, transmission lines and batteries.

  • Nick Toscano
An archaeological site of the Indus Valley Civilisation, 2500 BCE, now in modern-day Larkana District, Sindh Province, Pakistan.

How an ancient civilisation survived 1000 years of climate change

The Indus River Valley in South Asia hosted one of the most advanced societies at the time, along with Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. Then it mysteriously disappeared.

  • Kasha Patel
Solar systems have been getting cheaper.

Price shocks force factories to dump gas for cleaner energy

Industrial energy users are starting to turn away from natural gas after a jump in prices, and as solar systems, batteries and heat pumps become cheaper.

  • Nick Toscano
A bull shark swimming with fish in the ocean.

Yes, shark bites are becoming more common, but it’s complicated

More humans are in the water, while climate change is altering the natural range of many shark species.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Record levels of renewable energy in the electricity grid are displacing coal and driving down emissions.

Australia records biggest annual drop in emissions outside pandemic

Record output from renewable energy means emissions from coal plants are down as Australia’s greenhouse output has fallen for the first time in years.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
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Police and residents clear the road at Wyadra Street, Curl Curl, after the thunderstorm passed over northern beaches.

Man dead, commuter chaos, thousands without power after severe storms

The thunderstorms and damaging winds left a trail of destruction across Sydney, the Central Coast and Hunter, on a day that also brought extreme fire conditions.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Daniel Lo Surdo
A diseased turtle found on Bribie Island.

Mystery surge of turtle deaths in protected Australian waters

Dozens of endangered green turtles and one dugong have died and been washed ashore near Brisbane.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Most of Australia’s remaining coal-fired power plants are due to close within the next 10 years as they face frequent equipment faults, soaring maintenance costs and intense competition from renewables.

Energy giants back net zero as Coalition reignites climate war

Australia’s major power companies have reinforced support for net zero and a renewable-dominated grid, insisting it will be the cheapest option for consumers.

  • Nick Toscano
You may not like rising energy prices, but ditching net zero won’t fix the problem.

Yes, your bills have gone up. A bogus culture war on net zero won’t bring them down

Some politicians may want to pretend that climate change isn’t happening. But the costs of not acting are only going to keep rising.

  • Alison Reeve

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