On the weekend I flew up to Sydney to attend a conference held by the Chifley Research Centre, the ALP’s thinktank. As the plane approached Sydney, the site of the fire front in the Blue Mountains was stomach-churning. And then I got to experience the air quality of Sydney that […]
Tourism authorities have urged holidaymakers to think twice before cancelling Christmas and summer getaway plans due to extensive bushfires across New South Wales. By Claire Wheaton and Adriane Reardon Key points: More than 1 million hectares have burnt across NSW this bushfire season, many in popular holiday destinations South coast […]
A historian of science at Harvard University, Naomi Oreskes is best known for exposing the tactics of science deniers. Her first book Merchants of Doubt, co-authored with Erik Conway, chronicled how industry-funded scientists spread misinformation and doubt about tobacco smoke, climate change, acid rain and more. She has since exposed […]
A total fire ban is in place for Friday for the North Coast, including: Bellingen, Coffs Harbour, Port Macquarie-Hastings, Kempsey, Nambucca, Mid-Coast. During a Total Fire Ban you cannot light, maintain or use a fire in the open, or to carry out any activity in the open that causes, or […]
Hidden ingredients in imported foods are putting allergy sufferers at risk, new research has shown. By Isabelle Lane Potentially deadly allergens were found lurking in nearly one in two of the imported food products tested by researchers from James Cook University (JCU), a study published in the Food Additives & Contaminants […]
Mayor Dominic King of Bellingen, whose formerly lush shire is now desiccated and encircled by bushfires, is pleading with the state government to halt logging of native forests until the bushfire crisis is over and the extent of the damage to koala populations and their habitat is understood. By Jenny […]
Climate records were broken across the country as the spring of 2019 was dominated by drought and bushfires Australia has experienced its driest spring on record and its second-hottest in terms of maximum temperatures, only 0.04C behind the record set in 2014. By Naamen Zhou An average of only 27.4mm […]
A team of influential scientists has warned that the world faces the risk of “an existential threat to civilization” due to mounting evidence that tipping points in the climate and nature are likely to be breached. By Adam Vaughan Eleven years ago the group cautioned against the dangers of critical […]
Farmers and firefighters have joined a push for the Prime Minister to declare a climate emergency. By Kathryn Bermingham Farmers and firefighters have backed a Greens push for Prime Minister Scott Morrison to declare a climate emergency after recent bushfires ravaged two states in an early start to the bushfire […]
Support for carbon taxes isn’t linked to a nation’s belief in climate change – instead, it may depend on how much people in a country trust their government. By Jason Arunn Murugesu Malcolm Fairbrother at Umeå University in Sweden and his colleagues used data from the 2016 European Social Survey […]