Environment
Climate change
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest steps up fight against big oil and gas
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has escalated his war against oil and gas producers, and Woodside in particular, taking to a helicopter off the remote WA coast to lambast its $18 billion Scarborough gas export project as a “carbon dioxide bomb”.
- by Peter Milne
Latest
Andrew Forrest is flying the flag for wind farms, but they face stiff headwinds
More than other renewables, wind projects and the transmission lines needed to carry their power impose themselves on the landscape.
- by Nick O'Malley
The Last Word
Climate crisis
We’ll be stuck like shags on a rock when sea levels really surge
The sea rises, and having witnessed a preview years ago on my own beach, I am here to report that the future is ugly.
- by Tony Wright
Exclusive
Climate policy
The suburbs most under threat from rising seas revealed
Detailed confidential government studies could rewrite the planning rule book right around Port Phillip Bay.
- by Royce Millar and Benjamin Preiss
Earth’s hottest year on record threatens 1.5-degree warming limit, scientists warn
Last year was so hot that the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit warming to 1.5 degrees is now under serious threat, Europe’s peak climate agency warns.
- by Seth Borenstein
Opinion
Planning
Sydney kids, no matter where they live, must have trees to climb
As Sydney moves to higher density living, the harbour city needs to double its tree cover. This is why.
- by Daisy Turnbull
Opinion
Pets
Feeling the heat from climate change? Spare a thought for our pets
Animals are the silent victims of our escalating extreme weather events driven by human-induced climate change.
- by Gundi Rhoades
Your most Googled environment questions answered
We’ve all done a sneaky online search about issues we’re not sure about, so let’s look at the top environmental queries.
- by Laura Chung
Ghost forests: Australia’s snow gums under threat from climate change
They are beloved trees in the Australian landscape, but snow gums face an existential threat.
- by Miki Perkins
Opinion
COP28 Dubai
COP28 puts heat on everyone but Australia is well-placed to act
The world has taken stock of its climate change response and found it seriously wanting. Action can and must be taken.
- by Kerry Schott
Analysis
COP28 Dubai
What COP28 achieved – and what it failed to do
For the first time in COP’s 28-year history and in the face of fierce opposition from some states, fossil fuels were explicitly named in the event’s final text.
- by Nick O'Malley