Three weather patterns are in full effect across Australia’s north making conditions ripe for thunderstorms and cyclones.
Emma Kirk
The carbon budget to limit warning to 1.5C has effectively been exhausted, the latest stocktake warns alongside worrying findings for natural carbon sinks.
Poppy Johnston
"It was an attempt to get the attention of the government," Indigenous leaders say of their protesting the COP30 climate talks.
William James, Leonardo Benassatto and Simon Jessop
Turkey’s President has doubled down on his bid to host the COP climate summit next year — an event Australia is also fighting for — as the deadline fast approaches for host-rights to be determined.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Sussan Ley has made a wild claim about the living standards of younger Australians as the debate about net zero reaches a head in Canberra.
Ria Pandey, Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer, Alex Britton
Cockatoo conservation remains a core concern for environmental groups, claiming the Federal Government's revamped nature laws “fail” to protect wildlife.
Craig Duncan
Two months after a devastating shark attack claimed her husband’s life, Maria Psillakis is campaigning for stronger ocean safety measures.
Andrew Hedgman
A senior Liberal has revealed the outcome of a high-stakes five-hour meeting in Canberra on the opposition party’s position on net zero.
Ria Pandey and Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
The United Nations' COP32 climate summit in 2027 will be hosted by Ethiopia but next year's COP31 remains a contest between Turkey and Australia.
Staff Writers
Labor’s ambitious environmental reforms fail to close a “25-year-old loophole” putting the Great Barrier Reef at risk, an economist has warned.
Nathan Schmidt
A Senate inquiry has found state and federal authorities were caught off guard by South Australia’s massive algal bloom and delivered a damning verdict on their response.
Temperatures have plunged to near 0C in parts of Australia as other areas gear up for a week of fires, storms and wild weather.
Andrew Hedgman, Ria Pandey
A social media influencer has been blasted after being caught in an illegal act on a heritage-listed Australian tourist destination.
Blake Antrobus
The state division will follow in the footsteps of their federal colleagues to abandon the contentious emissions target.
Ria Pandey and Nathan Schmidt
UN climate negotiations have kicked off on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon, with the top official calling on countries to stop bickering.
Valerie Volcovici, Katy Daigle and William James
Deserted conservation promises are a blind spot for global negotiations on climate and biodiversity, researchers say, and are devilishly hard to track.
As the COP30 summit opens in Brazil, scientists worldwide are demanding climate change not be overshadowed by geopolitical tensions or national politics.
Fishing businesses are under pressure from a warming planet as a group of academics explores a novel, self-sustaining pathway to fund climate adaptation.
If you thought it was unusually chilly in one Australian city on Saturday, you’d be right. In fact, it was the coldest November day since 1945.
Alexandra Feiam
Two Liberal moderates have publicly supported an energy policy that includes net zero as the embattled party’s final decision on the target looms.
Ria Pandey
The New England MP has lashed rising power prices under Labor’s energy policies, saying “it’s like a dog returning to his vomit”.
The main event of the two-week United Nations COP30 summit comes at a pivotal time for global action on climate change.
These common items are set to disappear from one Aussie state as authorities crack down on “unnecessary” plastics.
A Liberal senator has made a big call on his political future as pressure mounts on an embattled Sussan Ley to unite a divided Coalition.
