Robyn Beck//AFP/Getty Images EUROPE swelters. Greece, California and even the Arctic burns. Eastern Australia is gripped in a severe drought. Following record-breaking flooding, Japan is now being hit by a record-breaking heatwave. No one can say we weren’t warned. The reality of human-made climate change has been apparent for decades […]
The nation appears headed for an election over emissions reductions and power prices after a majority of Coalition MPs endorsed the National Energy Guarantee and set the scene for a showdown with Labor. By Phil Coorey Despite a rearguard effort led by Tony Abbott to kill the NEG stone dead, […]
Australia’s population hits a big milestone today. By Evan Young In this article… What’s the current growth rate and what’s causing it? Where are people living in Australia? How does it compare to other countries? How has migration played a role? How big will Australia’s population get? Can we cope? […]
Head of Great Barrier Reef Foundation tells Senate inquiry money was offered at meeting with Turnbull and Josh Frydenberg Malcolm Turnbull was at the meeting where $443.8m in funding was offered to a small not-for-profit foundation without a competitive tender process or any application for the money, an inquiry has […]
Australians tried to do the right thing by recycling but corporations shifted responsibility and set us up for failure By Jeff Sparrow The announcement by China earlier this year that they would no longer purchase Australia’s contaminated waste plunged the local recycling industry into a crisis from which it has […]
Another report, another plan and yet still, we are as far from political consensus over energy and the environment as ever. By Ian Verrender, ABC Business Correspondent. After the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission released the findings of its long-running review into the electricity sector last week, Canberra once again […]
Universities Australia says government and business have ignored economy’s ‘backbone’ Australia has fallen well behind the rest of the developed world when it comes to research funding, the peak lobbying body for universities has warned. By Michael McGowan Ahead of a parliamentary inquiry into research funding, Universities Australia has complained […]
“I’m often asked if it gets tiring standing up to the naysayers. And while there are days when I contemplate with tired resignation facing yet another attack on climate science or democracy, the truth is, it’s a privilege to do so. By Tim Flannery I’ll never forget the morning close […]
Worldwide each year hundreds of thousands of marine creatures are casualties of our plastic obsession, suffering – and dying – after inadvertently eating plastic or becoming entangled in plastic debris found floating in the ocean. The issue is close to the heart of Southern Cross University’s National Marine Science Centre, […]
Five per cent of Bellingen Shire’s forests could be clear-felled and almost 20 per cent subjected to a doubling in harvest intensity if new logging regulations go ahead, councillors were told at yesterday’s Bellingen Shire Council meeting. By Janene Carey These estimates, based on mapping analysis, were put forward by Ashley […]