Environment
Climate change
By modern standards it’s small, but this Japanese tanker is causing big shockwaves
Might the test ship Excool be a breakthrough in trapping and transporting gas emissions to places like Australia for storage underground?
- by Nick O'Malley
Latest
The hole in the ozone layer was late this year. It’s not good news
Normally, the hole begins to form in mid to late August, and it closes towards the end of November, but this year it was delayed because of disturbances in the stratospheric polar vortex.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Households surge ahead in rooftop solar as renewable projects break bottleneck
Consumers installed four times more electricity generation through rooftop solar in the first half of this year than all commercial projects combined.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Investigations
‘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.
- by Charlotte Grieve and Michael Bachelard
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Victorian environment
‘Nobody wants to do this’: the tough calls to mitigate climate change
Is business as usual possible in a climate crisis? No, but not all is lost, says Parks Victoria’s chief scientist.
- by Bianca Hall
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Carbon pricing
‘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.
- by Charlotte Grieve and Simone Fox Koob
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Renewables
‘Rich families don’t need to save money’: Why wealthy suburbs are less likely to have rooftop solar
The higher the household income in a postcode area, the less likely the homes are to have solar panels installed.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Investigations
‘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.
- by Charlotte Grieve and Simone Fox Koob
Exclusive
Climate crisis
Internal documents show BoM escalated questions on climate and floods
Emails show that the Bureau of Meteorology directed staff to refer questions from journalists about floods, fires, climate change and the reef to senior management.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Nick O'Malley
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Renewables
Harnessed waste heat from cremations, sewage sludge could soon power our homes
Waste heat generated from piggeries, kilns and even crematoriums is being touted to power homes under a trial that has developed a commercially viable engine.
- by Bianca Hall
Analysis
Climate policy
As EV sales slump Elon Musk comes up Trumps
At the risk of turning off the fans who jumped first for EVs, Elon Musk has dug in with the world’s most prominent climate sceptic: Donald Trump.
- by Nick O'Malley
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