Environment
Climate change
Scientists struggle to explain ‘really weird’ spike in world temperatures
Extreme temperatures have shattered the grimmest expectations of a warming world and tested climate models.
- by Nick O'Malley
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Audacious bid to dump old oil rigs on Bass Strait sea floor
Enough material to build 110 Sydney Harbour Bridges is built into Australian offshore oil and gas rigs, and experts are now grappling with how to safely recover it.
- by Bianca Hall
A new generation is talking nuclear power. It’s unlikely to happen
Voters seem more open to nuclear power, but experts warn the support will quickly evaporate, and the risk is that the debate could delay the renewables rollout.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
How Rupert Murdoch’s son-in-law solved crisis at family farm
Alasdair MacLeod was regularly escaping to the country with his young family when he realised something was going horribly wrong there – and needed a radical solution.
- by Catherine Naylor
Environmental group’s spy satellite to sniff out fugitive emissions
For years methane was largely ignored in the climate change debate, but now rogue methane emissions are being hunted out with increasingly high-tech tools.
- by Nick O'Malley
Opinion
Five Minutes with Fitz
Will Dutton’s nuclear power play work? I asked a very bright spark
Nuclear power is being touted as the solution to our energy woes. But even if nuclear is safer than ever before, the business case for it doesn’t stack up, according to this academic.
- by Peter FitzSimons
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Pollution
Air pollution kills 1 million a year – hundreds of whom are Australians
Across Australia and New Zealand, an average 614 people lost their lives every year between 2000-2019 after being exposed to fine-particle air pollution.
- by Bianca Hall
Opinion
Climate crisis
I’ll be dead before the worst of it, but I’m fearful for those who won’t
The most obvious sign of the climate crisis is the heatwaves across the globe in 2023. Some 77 nations recorded their highest average annual temperature in half a century.
- by Ross Gittins
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Climate crisis
The effects of climate change on your suburb and city revealed
Sustained high temperatures would make parts of Australia essentially uninhabitable for months of the year, according to new analysis. Search the impact on your area.
- by Bianca Hall
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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