Global warming
Opinion
US Votes 2024
Why Kamala Harris has said the c-word only twice on the campaign trail
Americans everywhere are talking about the searing heat of the summer that just ended. Except in the political debate.
- by Peter Hartcher
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Why half a million Australian properties could be all-but uninsurable
If your plane had a one-in-four chance of falling from the sky, would you still get on the flight? That’s the question property owners are being asked.
- by Bianca Hall
‘Ecological grief’: communities, economy suffer from damage to Great Barrier Reef
The Commonwealth’s five-year report card says the outlook for Australia’s world heritage ecosystem is very poor, with global warming the biggest threat.
- by Mike Foley
The deadly storm that sank a superyacht: What is a waterspout?
Fast, dramatic and impossible to predict, some waterspouts can hit 400km/h. One of these destructive beasts likely led to the Bayesian tragedy.
- by Angus Dalton
We’ve trashed the Yarra for 190 years. Can we really save it in 45?
Cars and golfers give way to bots and billabongs in the NGV’s 2070 vision for our much-maligned river.
- by Ray Edgar
Last Games of summer? IOC boss says heat may force date change
International Olympic President Thomas Bach says rising temperatures may force future Olympics to be held later in the year.
- by Chip Le Grand
The Australian enterprise trying to curb the methane belched by livestock
Methane has 28 times the global warming impact of carbon dioxide, but a start-up with a solution has caught Bill Gates’ eye.
- by Colin Kruger
Six years after first school strike, climate kids march on
In 2018, they were inspired. One year later, they helped lead 100,000 young people in one of Melbourne’s largest environmental protests. Was it worth it?
- by Caroline Schelle
Opinion
Energy
Energy policy is becoming Australia’s own Brexit, and proving just as intractable
If the Coalition isn’t making up the policy as it’s going along, then it’s doing a Vegas-level impression of a political outfit that is.
- by Shaun Carney
Opinion
Renewables
Why Dutton’s energy switch may help Albanese keep Labor’s lights on
Time is not on Peter Dutton’s side as the prime minister moves to more solid ground on climate policy.
- by Sean Kelly
Opinion
Climate crisis
Sydney’s become more humid and damp, but I’ve found a fix
Every Sydney home needs one of these, and it’s not an air fryer.
- by Kerri Sackville
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