Dateline Hopenhagen: It's time for world leaders to lead
KELLY DENT AT Copenhagen Airport, the banners of Oxfam's ''tck tck tck'' campaign urge world leaders, including the US President, Barack Obama, not to leave Copenhagen without acting on climate change.
Mystery surrounds Traveston's $265m black hole
8:51am Queenslanders have been left with a $265 million debt for “unrecoverable costs” associated with the failed Traveston Crossing dam.
'Catastrophic' fire weather moves through NSW
8:46am NSW is bracing itself for extreme weather conditions on Tuesday, with a total fire ban in place for much of the state, and a catastrophic fire warning declared in the central west.
'Clear signals' for Copenhagen deal, says chief
ADAM MORTON The summit opened with a defence of the science of climate change and a call for the 100 world leaders going to Copenhagen next week to seize a unique chance.
Hackers paid by climate sceptics, UN says
PAOLA TOTARO, LONDON United Nations officials say hackers who pilfered thousands of emails and files from a British university were probably paid to undermine the Copenhagen summit.
Indonesia plans carbon tax, geothermal push
TOM ARUP Indonesia is to release its draft climate change policy, which would establish a carbon tax, geothermal energy projects and protection for forests.
Rich should help poor nations pay to go green
BARNEY ZWARTZ Rich countries must pay some of the bills for developing countries to produce green power as well as cutting their own emissions.
Serial emitter Indonesia goes for taxes, trees and hot rocks
TOM ARUP AS AUSTRALIA equivocates on an emissions trading scheme, Indonesia is set to release its draft climate change policy which would establish a carbon tax, roll out geothermal energy and protect forests.
UN blames professional hackers
PAOLA TOTARO LONDON: United Nations officials have suggested that computer hackers who pilfered thousands of emails and files from a British university were probably paid to undermine the Copenhagen summit.
Confessions of a storm chaser
INGA TING 11:42pm Never let anyone you telling chasing clouds is a waste of time.
Climate change: what the scientists say
GLENDA KWEK 1:10pm "Climate change is the predominant global challenge ... For some of us, it is an existential threat."
Turnbull blasts Abbott's 'bullshit' climate change stance
ARI SHARP 10:58am Former Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has delivered an extraordinary attack on Tony Abbott, describing the central plank of his successor's response to climate change as "bullshit" and saying the party could not be trusted.
Environmental management to be streamlined
PETER KER 10:34am Environmental management in Victoria is set to be streamlined, with a host of mergers likely to flow from a major biodiversity statement to be released by the Brumby Government today.
Environmental management to be streamlined
PETER KER 10:34am Environmental management in Victoria is set to be streamlined, with a host of mergers likely to flow from a major biodiversity statement to be released by the Brumby Government today.
'Giant prawn flood' in time for Christmas
MATT DEANS 9:34am One positive to come from a disastrous year of floods will be found on the plate this festive season in the form of large and plentiful prawns.
Copenhagen - what it's all about
ADAM MORTON, COPENHAGEN All the ins and outs of the two-week climate change talkfest..
Copenhagen summit must be global turning point, UN climate chief says
ADAM MORTON THE United Nations' climate chief has urged the world to capitalise on the presence of 100 world leaders and pledges by major countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions to make the Copenhagen summit starting today a turning point in tacking climate change.
'Climate-gate' forces weather data review
PAOLA TOTARO, LONDON The British Meteorological Office is to launch a review of its temperature data and has asked 188 nations - including Australia - for permission to release raw weather data in the wake of the so-called 'Climate-gate' email scandal.
British to review data on weather after scandal
PAOLA TOTARO HERALD CORRESPONDENT LONDON: The British Meteorological Office is to undertake a three-year reanalysis of its temperature data and has asked 188 nations - including Australia - for permission to release raw weather data in the wake of the climate-change email scandal.
Rich countries asked for cuts and money
COPENHAGEN: The bloc of developing nations insist rich countries, deemed responsible for today's warming and best placed to tackle it, commit to legally binding reductions of their emissions by at least 40 per cent annually by 2020 over 1990 levels.
Slim hopes remain for treaty
ADAM MORTON AND MICHELLE GRATTAN Penny Wong expresses optimism an effective deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions is possible as the Copenhagen climate conference starts today.
Higgins' new MP warms to hot topic of climate change
IAN MUNRO Were it not for climate change, the Higgins byelection might have been a few weeks of localised sound and fury, signifying nothing of national importance.
History is made: papers' single call
In an unprecedented initiative, 56 major newspapers in 45 countries are today publishing a shared editorial calling on politicians and negotiators gathering in Copenhagen to strike an ambitious deal on combating climate change.
Exterminate bunnies? Kill whales? Big questions for ethical children
HEATH GILMORE, HIGHER EDUCATION JUST how ethical is it, in the mind of the average primary school student, to hunt elephants for their tusks?
Premier urged to axe Rees's red gum national park
BEN CUBBY ENVIRONMENT PRESSURE is mounting on Kristina Keneally to reverse Nathan Rees's last-minute decision to create a massive national park along the Murray River to protect threatened river red gum forests.
University tackles sceptics' arguments
DEBORAH SMITH SCIENCE EDITOR AS WORLD leaders gather in Copenhagen, efforts to undermine public confidence in the science of climate change have intensified.
Lending a hand to save the sand
ELLIE HARVEY AS INTERNATIONAL political heavyweights begin to negotiate a climate deal in Copenhagen today, more than 80 grassroots environmental groups in Australia will swing into action for Coastcare Week.
$50b bill for Abbott carbon plan
PETER HARTCHER AND PHILLIP COOREY THE shadow treasurer, Joe Hockey, has estimated the cost of Tony Abbott's climate change policy at over $50 billion.
British to review data on weather after scandal
PAOLA TOTARO HERALD CORRESPONDENT LONDON: The British Meteorological Office is to undertake a three-year reanalysis of its temperature data and has asked 188 nations - including Australia - for permission to release raw weather data in the wake of the climate-change email scandal.
Shrinking Arctic ice
Multimedia: Time-lapse maps, supplied by NASA's Earth Observatory.
The Ozone's hole
Multimedia: Time-lapse maps, supplied by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Changing temperatures
Multimedia: Time-lapse maps, supplied by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Carbon dioxide emissions
Interactive: See what the key countries are pumping out.
What is the ETS?
At a glance: Glenda Kwek's guide to climate change and ETS.
Dammed if they do...
How Lake Cargelligo residents get by with ever-diminishing water.
Aussie innovator
An online platform developed by an Australian Googler has been adopted by the UN.
Psychology of denial
Survey after survey reveals deep-seated doubt among the public. Why?
