Scientists struggle to explain ‘really weird’ spike in world temperatures

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.

  • byNick O'Malley

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Audacious bid to dump old oil rigs on Bass Strait sea floor

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.

  • byBianca Hall
A new generation is talking nuclear power. It’s unlikely to happen

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.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
How Rupert Murdoch’s son-in-law solved crisis at family farm

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.

  • byCatherine Naylor
Environmental group’s spy satellite to sniff out fugitive emissions

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.

  • byNick O'Malley
Will Dutton’s nuclear power play work? I asked a very bright spark

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.

  • byPeter FitzSimons
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Air pollution kills 1 million a year – hundreds of whom are Australians
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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.

  • byBianca Hall
I’ll be dead before the worst of it,but I’m fearful for those who won’t

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.

  • byRoss Gittins
Massive climate shakeup an opportunity for Aussie firms

Massive climate shakeup an opportunity for Aussie firms

Australian corporations are poised on the precipice of the most substantial change to company reporting in a generation.