'Nothing's safe': More than 70 of Sydney's green spaces at risk
"It's wrecking the green grid that is fundamental to a healthy and liveable city."
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.
"It's wrecking the green grid that is fundamental to a healthy and liveable city."
Over the past three years, almost all of the world's reefs have experienced summertime heat stress.
The great bulk of Australia's largest listed companies are failing to disclose their exposures to climate change.
The State of the Environment report, the latest five-year government snapshot, makes for generally dismal reading.
More than half the world's turtles and two-thirds of some bird species along Australia's east coast are being found to have ingested plastics as the toll from pollution mounts.
Poor countries have contributed the least to human-induced climate change but are already being affected more than richer ones.
Antarctic Bottom Water is a thing, and it's one worth getting into the discussion about the consequences of climate change.
Rsk of heavy rainfall and even flash flooding stretches all the way down the coast from Gosford to the Victorian border.
NSW should place a cap on the amount of thermal coal it can mine and plan an orderly phase-out of the industry within a decade to do its bit to avoid catastrophic climate change, NSW Greens say.
Sydney's record-breaking weather juggernaut rolls on, with summer confirmed as the city's hottest for both days and nights over records stretching back 157 years.
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