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Paris Agreement
‘They ain’t seen nothing yet’: UN boss names climate change impacts coming to Australia
Top UN climate official Simon Stiell says Australia will be “front and centre in resettling entire national populations” if climate targets are not met.
- by Nick O'Malley
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Electric vehicles
Internal documents suggest car lobby is over-egging price hikes
An internal briefing document suggests that the car lobby is exaggerating how much the cost of new cars will go up under the government’s emissions scheme.
- by Nick O'Malley
For these east coast travellers, an unlikely suburb of Perth is a must-see
It’s not somewhere you would think to place on day one of a travel itinerary. But for this Australian think-tank, it’s the star attraction of the wild west.
- by Emma Young
Opinion
Marine life
I start my first job as the world careers and threatens what enriches my life
Bad news about the Great Barrier Reef is a punch in the gut from which I am still reeling.
- by Adam Gottschalk
Could you survive an Antarctic blizzard to look for mud? These scientists had no choice
Dr Richard Jones faced a dilemma: hunker down in the Antarctic wilderness or make a run for it?
- by Laura Chung and Angus Dalton
‘You’re gonna eat bugs’: Climate fears and conspiracies at Canberra renewables protest
A crowd gathered on the lawn of Parliament House on Tuesday this week to protest the government’s plan to implement “reckless renewables”.
- by Nick O'Malley
The Australian Antarctic Program is in the midst of Australia’s most ambitious field expedition in 20 years
The campaign aims to understand the Denman Glacier which is very vulnerable to climate change and holds a potential sea level rise of 1.5 m, as well as the broader Bunger Hills region and its biodiversity.
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Climate policy
Once again the Coalition is trying to wreck the joint rather than save it
This week’s “Rally Against Reckless Renewables” in Canberra has done little more than kick off Climate Wars 2.0.
- by Tim Buckley and Annemarie Jonson
The shrinking ice sheet raising sea levels and disrupting ocean cycles
An expanse of frozen water larger than two NSWs or seven Victorias is disappearing faster than scientists had predicted.
- by James Lemon
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
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