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Damon Gameau and Ruby Rodgers in Future Council.

These kids want climate action. Here are the cutting questions they’re asking CEOs

Eight children aged 10 to 15 joined Damon Gameau in a trip across Europe in a vegetable oil-powered bus for his new film Future Council.

  • Nell Geraets

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Graphics showing the extent of small floods (1 in 5 chance of happening every year) to the biggest flood possible (0.1% chance of happening in an 80-year lifetime).

A megaflood devastated early Sydney. An even worse catastrophe is hidden in the city’s ‘bathtub’

If the disaster happened today, it would spark 100,000 evacuations and inflict $7.5 billion in damage.

  • Angus Dalton

The July 26 Edition

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full bench of the NSW Court of Appeal invalidates the permission for Indonesian company MACH Energy to extend the Mount Pleasant coal mine near Muswellbrook for another 22 years after its current approval expires in 2026.

Court overturns massive coal mine approval on climate grounds

The NSW Court of Appeal found the planning authority must consider climate change impacts even if the coal is being exported to burn overseas.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Nick O'Malley
Sarah Wilson says she doesn’t fit into a neat media tribe because “I talk scary stuff”.

First, she quit sugar. Now, she’s ditched ‘hopium’: Sarah Wilson’s urgent new mission

The self-described renegade’s career has taken her from teen model to magazine editor to bestselling author. Her new focus: civilisational collapse.

  • Gay Alcorn
In a win for low-lying Pacific nations, the International Court of Justice found countries are obligated to act on climate change.

Australia faces ‘inescapable’ legal risk after historic climate ruling

The International Court of Justice’s historic advisory ruling could have far-reaching implications for fossil fuel-exporting nations such as Australia.

  • Angus Thompson and Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Dead garfish in neon-green water in Ardrossan, South Australia on July 9.

The underwater cyclone that could hit Australia’s east coast

A toxic microalgae is devastating the coastal waters of South Australia, and it’s “quite likely” the disaster will hit other states.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Bianca Hall
Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest labelled national security “a distraction” from Australia’s trade with China.

‘Twiggy’ Forrest-led business campaign demands Albanese go greener

Demonstrating the political gulf over climate action, Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce declared he would use the new term to campaign for the scrapping of the Paris Agreement.

  • Paul Sakkal and Nick O'Malley
The beloved Lancelin Lookout is collapsing as the beachfront erodes.

Coastal WA tourism town’s erosion emergency deepens as landmark washes away

Extreme coastal erosion at a much-loved coastal holiday town enters the next phase as plans for the area’s future remain mired in deep controversy.

  • Emma Young
The toxic algal bloom in South Australia is killing marine life.

‘A dead shark, dead rays, dead fish, dead cuttlefish’: The toxic algal bloom is spreading

The federal government has announced a $14 million funding package for South Australia but resisted calls to declare the algal bloom a natural disaster.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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