Environment
Climate change
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Climate crisis
As Coalition battles, government says it’s on track for climate cuts
Australia’s national greenhouse emissions fell 1.4 per cent in the year to March 2025 and are sitting at 28 per cent below 2005 levels.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Opinion
Ethical living
My summer in Norway left me sad for Australia’s future
In the month I spend there, I learn that Norway is a country where the perks of clever policy abound. But it’s who pays for these perks that is so exasperating.
- by Lucianne Tonti
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Renewables
‘Off like a rocket’: Battery rebate prompts massive rooftop power surge
The equivalent of South Australia’s Hornsdale big battery is being installed every 8.7 days after the rebates began.
- by Nick O'Malley
Disused coal plant could burn wood and call it renewable energy
Would restarting Redbank Power Station in the Hunter Valley as a biomass reactor be net zero or is this a “convenient untruth”?
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
How do you decarbonise an economy? Line by line, says Matt Kean
The Liberal Party true believer finds himself at the centre of one of the Albanese Labor government’s most confounding policy challenges.
- by Nick O'Malley and Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Opinion
Climate solutions
Forget net zero. We need ‘real zero’ – and these companies prove it’s profitable
Three huge global companies – IKEA, Lendlease and Fortescue Mining – are heading towards real zero. If they can do it, so can everyone.
- by Claire Snyder
‘You realise your children are probably never going to see Ningaloo the way you saw it’
The west-coast reef has largely escaped the curse of coral bleaching that has blighted the Great Barrier Reef. This year, that’s changed.
- by Bianca Hall
Great Barrier Reef suffers record coral decline, mass bleaching
Year upon year of marine heatwaves are battering the Great Barrier Reef, the most recent survey of coral coverage shows.
- by Nick O'Malley
Opinion
Extreme weather
Forecasting wild weather just got more difficult, thanks to Donald Trump
Globally connected early warning systems help us prepare for extreme weather events. Now those systems are under a cloud.
- by Matt Kean
August to bring more rain and snow, but for farmers it’s ‘storm Lotto’
The heavy rain stretching along the east coast is a harbinger of a wetter-than-average August and start to spring.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Analysis
Paris Agreement
What’s in a number? New carbon target sparks new climate warfare
Australia needs to come up with its next emission reduction target under its commitment to the Paris Agreement. The lobbying is intensifying.
- by Nick O'Malley