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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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
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
The big dilemma facing your super funds

The big dilemma facing your super funds

Engage or divest? How can big super work towards a more sustainable world?

  • bySumeyya Ilanbey
‘They ain’t seen nothing yet’:UN boss names climate change impacts coming to Australia

‘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.

  • byNick O'Malley
Perth climate voters get MP on board with net-zero ‘vision for future’

Perth climate voters get MP on board with net-zero ‘vision for future’

The teal independent,who is glad to be free of “party ideologies”,says her constituents’ action and work will help her advocate for them at a federal level.

  • byHamish Hastie
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Once again the Coalition is trying to wreck the joint rather than save it

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.

  • byTim Buckley andAnnemarie Jonson
Did a sea sponge just blow up the Paris Agreement?

Did a sea sponge just blow up the Paris Agreement?

Australian-led research into Caribbean sea sponges indicates global warming had already smashed the 1.5 degree threshold by 2012. We’re now on the cusp of 2 degrees.

  • byAngus Dalton
‘Drill,baby,drill!’ Trump 2.0 wouldn’t just kill the political climate

‘Drill,baby,drill!’ Trump 2.0 wouldn’t just kill the political climate

Donald Trump’s second-term battle plan outlines moves to encourage allies to use more fossil fuels and scrap curbs on drilling in the Arctic.

  • byNick O'Malley
Andrew Forrest is flying the flag for wind farms,but they face stiff headwinds

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.

  • byNick O'Malley
We’ll be stuck like shags on a rock when sea levels really surge
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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.

  • byTony Wright