Hopes gas will play the role of a so-called transition fuel towards a low-carbon future are dimming as costs of renewable energy dive and its emissions edge over coal is increasingly questioned, a new report by the Climate Action Tracker argues.
The NSW opposition leader Luke Foley has been caught out promising a policy that the Berejiklian government has already begun.
Our political and business leaders have given up. The rest of must act instead.
Like the Pythonesque parrot, Alan Finkel's independent review into the future security of Australia's electricity market is merely sleeping.
Rising temperatures and humidity will make the world's tropics increasingly unliveable by pushing more people to the thresholds of their physical tolerance and beyond, a new international study finds.
The chief scientist is struggling to solve one of Australia's most intractable problems.
Solar power, once so costly it only made economic sense in spaceships, is becoming cheap enough that it will push coal and even natural-gas plants out of business faster than previously forecast.
Australia's greenhouse gas emissions could return to 2005 levels by 2030 without new government action, contrary to the scenario modelled by the Finkel review, according to a new report by respected analyst Hugh Saddler.
Here's a guide to the Finkel Review, in case, like Tony Abbott, you haven't read it.
Australia's chief scientist has steered a politically pragmatic course in his landmark energy report.
Australians overwhelmingly want governments to favour renewable energy - even if it costs more, Lowy Institute poll finds.
Sometimes, the lost desert wanderer does stumble into an oasis, replete with the proverbial date palms and life-saving waters.
President Donald Trump's aide have refused to confirm whether he believes in climate change.
The US President has made the wrong call for the wrong reasons.
Two high-profile executives quit Donald Trump's advisory council and Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein took to Twitter for the first time ever to express disapproval at his decision to ditch the Paris climate accord.
Nationalists in the Trump administration are right. The decision to withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord was correct.
World leaders have pledged to keep up the fight against global warming as Trump announced he was pulling out of the Paris climate accord.
Some of the key point you need to know about Paris and a withdrawal of the US by President Trump
That Donald Trump's decision was widely anticipated does little to moderate its impact.
US President Donald Trump has announced that the US will exit the Paris climate accord and begin investigating a new agreement with fairer terms for the US.
The climate genie, already out of the bottle, just got that bit harder to put back in.
World's corals, including the Great Barrier Reef, can be saved but only with concerted efforts.
Getting the green bank to invest in carbon reduction measures is not entirely mad.
Australia's clean energy sector is heading for a record year for new solar and wind farms, generating thousands of jobs in regional areas and bringing the 2020 Renewable Energy Target within range.
The giant ice sheets of Antarctica are melting faster than previously estimated, placing low-lying areas of Sydney and similar exposed cities at risk by the turn of the century.
The Berejiklian government will issue warnings of potential threats to electricity supplies from this summer after its review of February's heatwave found the power sector to be vulnerable.
Climate scientists warn Sydney will have tropical waters by 2040-60.
A former top oil, gas and coal executive says the government and opposition are failing the world.
Hazelwood's demise has triggered a surge in gas - and a prediction electricity prices will rise by up to 40%.
Scientists assess the likelihood of a repeat of the "angry summer" of 2012-13.
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