Cabinet ministers say climate science 'not settled'

Michael Koziol   Nationals deputy leader Fiona Nash has joined her cabinet colleague George Brandis in claiming the science of climate change is not yet settled.

'Worse things in store': Steaming hot world sets temperature records

Peter Hannam   The Earth sizzled in March with the most unusually warm month in history as average land surface temperatures easily exceeded levels deemed by scientists to constitute dangerous climate change.

Signs are economies can grow even as emissions fall

Coral Davenport   The more coal and oil we burn, the more we can produce, driving growth, right? There may be another way.

CSIRO executives asked to justify deep cuts to climate science

Peter Hannam   Senior CSIRO executives spent much of Sunday trying to justify and prioritise deep cuts planned to climate change science programs that are understood to have caught Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull by surprise.

Australia sinks on 'most credible' environmental index in the world

Peter Hannam   Australia's global ranking has dived on an international survey that Environment Minister Greg Hunt had described as "the most credible, scientifically based" analysis in the world.

December temperature spike capped record hot year in 2015

Peter Hannam   A remarkably warm December helped drive global surface temperatures in 2015 to easily the hottest year in records going back to 1880, the US National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration said.

'Enough is enough': Leonardo DiCaprio rips into Big Oil

Fresh off his Golden Globe win, the Hollywood star lashes out at the fossil fuel players' "corporate greed" in Davos.

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Solar and wind just did the unthinkable

Tom Randall   The world is now adding more power capacity from renewables every year than from coal, natural gas, and oil combined.

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Why we'll have to pay polluters to stop polluting right now

Peter Martin   We need incentives to get all our brown coal power stations closed by the early 2020s, and all our black ones by the early 2030s.

David Attenborough - a rare species

Jessamy Calkin   He is the most revered broadcaster in the world,and at the age of 89 Sir David Attenborough has lost none of his passion for life on Earth. He talks to Jessamy Calkin about climate change, Barack Obama, and his new series on the Great Barrier Reef.

What it was really like inside the negotiating room at Paris climate conference

Peter Hannam   For negotiators engrossed in months or even years of arcane, technical wrangling for a new global climate agreement, the sudden involvement of political leaders in the talks in Paris was both a curiosity and a distraction.

November global temperatures soared, shattering records

Peter Hannam   Global temperatures soared again in November - just as leaders from the world gathered in Paris to settle a new agreement to tackle climate change.

'Why would you bother?': Turnbull government backbenchers warn against world's emissions plan

Nicole Hasham   The world may have struck a much-heralded deal in Paris to ratchet up pollution cuts in the decades ahead, but a number of Turnbull government backbenchers insist climate science is unconvincing and Australia has already promised enough.

US town rejects solar farm after sunlight, cancer fears

Michael Koziol   World leaders may have committed to ambitious climate targets in Paris at the weekend, but that in small-town America, all that solar hocus pocus is still viewed with a healthy dose of slack-jawed cynicism.

Heat turned up on Turnbull's climate policies

Nicole Hasham   A watershed climate pact in Paris has stepped up pressure on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to act at home to curb emissions and phase out fossil fuels, as the government warns it will not risk the economy to meet the new global commitment.

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A global deal made in China (and the US)

Daniel Flitton   Without concord between Beijing and Washington, the world could not have struck a comprehensive deal to tackle global warming.

Climate deal's $23 trillion price tag

Alex Morales and Ewa Krukowska   The agreement struck in Paris requires a huge investment in cleaning up the Earth's atmosphere.

A quick guide to the Paris climate deal

Tom Arup   What you need to know about the Paris climate deal.

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Comment: Well done on the Paris deal, but the real test still to come

Peter Hannam   Is the Paris climate summit, as the French phrase goes, "the mountain that gives birth to the mouse"?

Analysis: Paris delivers. Can Turnbull?

Tom Arup   With the Paris summit wrapping up having delivered an historic global climate agreement, questions will inevitably turn to whether Malcolm Turnbull will use the international momentum to advance the climate debate back home

Historic climate deal appears imminent

Tom Arup and Peter Hannam in Paris   An historic global deal to limit and tackle climate change appears imminent after a final draft agreement has been completed at the United Nations conference in Paris.

The zombies trying to avoiding a global warming apocalypse in Paris

Peter Hannam   It's not quite zombie time but the strains are beginning to show as the Paris climate summit nears a climax.

Paris climate summit to miss Friday deadline

Tom Arup and Peter Hannam   Work on an historic climate deal that for the first time would require all countries to play a role in curbing greenhouse gas emissions will continue through the weekend after organisers conceded the summit would not meet its Friday night deadline.

Here's the climate deal the world really wants

Tom Randall   Elon Musk, the founder of electric car marker Tesla, and oil giant Exxon Mobil's boss Rex Tillerson have starkly different visions of the world. But on the best tool for fighting climate change, they agree.

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Small states struggle to keep up with negotiating giants at climate talks

Peter Hannam   Small nations are stretched to make sure their voices are not drowned out by big countries when negotiating climate change deals.

Paris climate negotiations turn to Zulu-style meetings in a bid to break deadlocks

Tom Arup   Climate negotiators have turned to the idea of "indaba" – a traditional Zulu meeting style – as they seek for breakthroughs on deadlocks plaguing the Paris climate talks.

Nations make final push for climate deal

Exhausted climate negotiators from 195 nations seeking ways to strengthen a planned agreement to combat global warming are arguing over who should pay billions of dollars to help developing nations meet those goals.

Is it really possible to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees?

Tom Arup   Why is there sudden momentum for this more ambitious target? And what is the real world difference between 1.5 and 2 degrees?

'Loss and damage' controversy smoulders at Paris climate talks

Megan Rowling   ​Having a mechanism to address the losses and damage caused by climate change included in the draft of a U.N. deal to tackle global warming is a victory for vulnerable island states, and they will fight to keep it in, said Tuvalu's prime minister.