'Sneaky piece of accounting': How government dug up $240m to pay farmers
The Baird government has been accused of raiding NSW's $1.4 billion Climate Change Fund to subsidise increased land clearing.
Peter Hannam is Environment Editor at The Sydney Morning Herald. He covers broad environmental issues ranging from climate change to renewable energy for Fairfax Media.
The Baird government has been accused of raiding NSW's $1.4 billion Climate Change Fund to subsidise increased land clearing.
Claims that a rejig of the national parks service in NSW will undermine fire emergency responses.
A senior NASA official has taken the extraordinary step of personally rebuking One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts' claims the agency had falsified key data.
Alison McKenzie, the wife of a slain environmental investigator Glen Turner, says she is worried the Baird government's new land-clearing laws won't resolve the circumstances that led to his death.
Air pollution resulting from controlled burning near Sydney last May was so severe it probably caused 14 premature deaths and sent dozens of people to hospital, according to a new health study.
Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry have stabilised for a third year in a row.
Climate models may be underestimating how sensitive the planet is to rising greenhouse gas levels .
A Trump presidency could have serious impacts on Australia's climate science and other research including short-term weather forecasts.
Development in Sydney's coastal wetlands will become more difficult as the Baird government moves to tighten controls over ecologically sensitive regions.
The Turnbull government has ratified the Paris climate agreement, formalising Australia's commitment to a global effort to curb carbon emissions and reduce the risk of dangerous climate change.
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