Environment
Regional Queensland rail line swallowed by floods
This time-lapse shows a rail track in Corella Creek in north-west Queensland has been engulfed by rising floods created by monsoonal rainfall.
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Courts
'We won': Landmark climate ruling as NSW court rejects coal mine
Environmental groups are cheering a decision in NSW's Land and Environment Court that found the emissions of greenhouse gases and resulting climate change from a proposed coal mine was among the reasons to reject the project.
- by Peter Hannam
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Darling Disaster
'Sands are shifting': NSW agriculture minister to push climate cause
Niall Blair, NSW agriculture minister and a Nationals MP, says it was time climate change's impact on farming was acknowledged and the effects dealt with - even if his views differed from "many of my colleagues".
- by Peter Hannam
Darling Disaster
Fish embark on 590km road trip from Menindee after recent kills
The 20 Murray Cod are en route from Menindee to Narrandera "where it is hoped they will regain health for future breeding and restocking purposes".
- by Peter Hannam
Extreme weather
'A worrying signal': it's hot and only going to get hotter
Annual global temperatures were the fourth highest on record in 2018 with the world in the midst of its hottest decade since reliable data has been collected, international agencies say.
- by Peter Hannam
Bob Brown
'Bigger than Franklin': Bob Brown to lead anti-Adani road convoy
The former Greens leader says his planned road convoy to protest the proposed giant Adani coal mine in Queensland will be bigger than the protest to stop the damming of Tasmania's wild rivers in the 1980s.
- by Peter Hannam
Townsville Floods
Governments not keeping pace with climate change impacts: scientist
One of Australia's leading scientists has warned both the Queensland and federal governments that they are not keeping pace with the impacts of climate change.
- by Tony Moore
Biodiversity
The conservationist who stopped mining on Fraser Island dies at 79
John Sinclair, the conservationist who halted sand mining on Fraser Island, has passed away.
- by Tony Moore
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Townsville Floods
How Queensland is being soaked by an 'unprecedented monsoonal burst'
The north Queensland coast hasn't seen anything like it before. Homes are flooding, dams are overflowing and still the rain keeps pouring down. What's going on?
- by Peter Hannam & Nigel Gladstone
Opinion
Global warming
One backyard at a time: how Perth gardeners can lead the planet back to health
You hope something happens soon, but think you personally can’t make a real difference. This feeling of disempowerment is possibly our greatest challenge.
- by Trevor Cochrane
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Paris Agreement
Sydney wins bid to host major climate conference for women in 2020
Hundreds of climate leaders are expected to flock to Sydney next year after the City of Sydney won its bid to host a global conference for women.
- by Peter Hannam