Nick Moir’s 30 years on the climate change frontline

Nick Moir’s 30 years on the climate change frontline

The Herald’s chief photographer has documented some of our worst natural disasters.

  • byNick Moir andLaura Chung

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Tuvalu pact puts Australia’s Pacific plans on the map

Tuvalu pact puts Australia’s Pacific plans on the map

What is Australia’s responsibility to our climate-change affected Pacific neighbours,rapidly disappearing under the waves? There’s been a new treaty,but who can claim the credit?

Fast-hitting drought slams Australia’s south-east

Fast-hitting drought slams Australia’s south-east

Farmer Tim Kemp has lost thousands of avocados to years of drought and floods. Now,he’s trying to prepare for another big dry - but will it be too much?

  • byLaura Chung
After 18 months from hell,these farmers are doing everything they can to save their crops

After 18 months from hell,these farmers are doing everything they can to save their crops

First flood hit the farmers of the Lismore region,then came drought.

  • byNick O'Malley andDean Sewell
Sydney park cleans up with prestigious award

Sydney park cleans up with prestigious award

Meet the Australian landscape architects moving away from “making beautiful things and scenery to being about change”.

  • byJulie Power
Rivers in the Amazon fall to their lowest levels in 120 years

Rivers in the Amazon fall to their lowest levels in 120 years

The Negro River is the Amazon’s largest tributary and the world’s sixth-largest by water volume.

  • byFabiano Maisonnave
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Farmers offloading sheep for free as drought looms

Farmers offloading sheep for free as drought looms

Fears of a long,hot summer and a booming national flock have pushed some farmers to take extreme measures.

  • byMike Foley
To burn or wait for an inferno? The oldest riddle of the forest
Tony Wright’s Column
Bushfires

To burn or wait for an inferno? The oldest riddle of the forest

Australia’s landscape was sculpted by the knowing use of fire over tens of thousands of years. But much has changed,including,most ominously,the climate.

  • byTony Wright
Soaring water temperatures suspected in death of 100 pink dolphins

Soaring water temperatures suspected in death of 100 pink dolphins

Thousands of fish have also died in the Amazon,where water temperatures reached 38 degrees on Sunday.

  • byMauricio Savarese
Record growth in solar,EVs leaves open ‘narrow path’ to net zero

Record growth in solar,EVs leaves open ‘narrow path’ to net zero

The world’s lead energy advisory body says a path to net zero remains open,but only if governments increase ambition and co-operation.

  • byNick O'Malley
El Nino is here,the Bureau of Meteorology finally confirms

El Nino is here,the Bureau of Meteorology finally confirms

Following similar declarations by other global meteorological organisations,an El Nino has been declared,setting Australia up for a long,hot,dry and dangerous summer.

  • byNick O'Malley