Environment
Climate Change
'Cracker': Solar surge starts to get buy-in from big shopping centres
Stockland, one of Australia's biggest developers, is adding the equivalent of nine rugby fields of solar panels to shopping centre roofs.
- by Peter Hannam
Latest
Global warming
The scientists planning to get stuck in the ice to plug a climate gap
For Markus Rex, this week's midwinter Arctic heatwave is the perfect justification for an ambitious climate research effort.
- by Peter Hannam
Extreme weather
Arctic heat spasm caused by stratosphere warming has a southern cousin
The buckling of weather in the northern hemisphere that has seen a relative Arctic heatwave and frigid conditions over Europe has a southern counterpart.
- by Peter Hannam
Energy
Clean Energy Finance chief raises doubts about 'clean coal' solution
A Turnbull government push to have Australia's "green investment bank" invest in so-called clean-coal technologies has hit a snag.
- by Peter Hannam
Extreme weather
'Really extreme' global weather event leaves scientists aghast
The chart that has climate scientists amazed, while Europeans are left bracing for the "Beast from the East".
- by Peter Hannam
Global warming
World's coral reefs face new peril from beneath within decades
Coral reefs could start to dissolve as man-made climate change drives acidification of the oceans, scientists say.
- by Peter Hannam
Global warming
'First hint' of a puzzling change in Southern Ocean revealed by CSIRO
Researchers aboard an Australian ship undertaking pioneering work in the Southern Ocean have found the "first hint" of a shift.
- by Peter Hannam
Renewables
NSW Climate Change Fund underspent more than $250m in past three years
The Berejiklian government's Climate Change Fund has collected in excess of a quarter of a billion dollars more than it has spent in the past three years
- by Peter Hannam
Opinion
Water
Ominous warning for Sydney in Cape Town water crisis
You're more likely to hear Sydneysiders talking about traffic or property prices than water. Memories of the millennial drought have faded as our reservoirs have filled with years of above-average rainfall. But this period of water wealth should not delude us. It will not last forever.
- by Eamon Waterford
Global warming
Expect more 'complete surprises' from climate change: NASA's Schmidt
The eruption of pine bark beetles that has devastated forests in North America is an example of surprises from climate change, says NASA's Gavin Schmidt.
- by Peter Hannam
Opinion
Extreme weather
With political leaders on the sidelines, sport could take the lead on climate change
This is an opportunity for sporting codes to show leadership around climate change and its potential effects.
- by Sue Cooke