'Remarkable year': What's behind the record low sea ice in Antarctica
While odd things are happening at both ends of the globe, it's the South Pole that is harder to decipher.
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Peter Hannam
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.
'Nowhere on earth safe' from climate change as survival challenge grows
People can fixate on polar bears and say "it's a pity but it doesn't affect me'. They're wrong, a conservation biologist says.
Dry, hot start to summer brings a threat
Australia is heading for a relatively hot and dry start to summer as key climate drivers combine to raise the fire threat is many parts of the country.
Threat to NASA climate role a 'disaster' for global warming action
A threat by the incoming Trump administration to the climate research of US space agency NASA would be disastrous for global efforts to monitor and counter global warming, Australian researchers said.
Sydney storms trigger airport delays, douse commuters
Fast-moving thunderstorms create airport havoc but the peak has passed, the bureau says.
'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.
Senior fire managers sacked as season ramps up
Claims that a rejig of the national parks service in NSW will undermine fire emergency responses.
NASA chief slaps down climate sceptic Malcolm Roberts
A senior NASA official has taken the extraordinary step of personally rebuking One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts' claims the agency had falsified key data.
'How are they going to enforce it?' Widow of slain inspector slams new laws
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.
The deadly impact of Sydney's backburning
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.
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