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Australia’s renewable energy transition is the biggest driver of greenhouse emissions cuts.

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.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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Life in Oslo was eye-opening.

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.

  • Lucianne Tonti
After weeks of relentless rain, the city of Sydney has finally given up hope.

Game over, Sydney. The sun may be back, but the rain has finally defeated us all

Once a city that was able to weather the weather, this recent bout of record-breaking rain has pushed us all to breaking point. 

  • Thomas Mitchell
Peter Cook, President of Queenscliffe Climate Action Now on the eroding Narrows dog beach. Cook is concerned his council is moving to scrap its Climate Action Response Plan.

Fiscal restraint or culture wars? Councils winding back climate action

A new wave of conservative councillors are abandoning climate commitments, with critics saying the “back to basics” rhetoric is an ideological smokescreen.

  • Rachael Dexter and Benjamin Preiss
Author and environmentalist Natalie Kyriacou.

An orangutan reached for Natalie’s hand. It was a defining moment for her

Through often-startling stories detailing the wonder of wildlife, a Melbourne environmentalist hopes to convince people that the natural world is worth saving.

  • Clare Stephens
Emperor penguins could be extinct by 2100.

Emperor penguins and three-metre sea level rises: the cost of Antarctica’s warming

The West Antarctic Ice Shelf contains enough ice to raise sea levels by three metres, and the tipping point for its collapse could be exceeded even under “best-case” carbon emission reduction pathways.

  • Bianca Hall
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An artist’s impression of the proposed Prospect Hill International waste-to-energy plant in Lara.

Controversial Lara incinerator fails to ignite

The proposal for a vast waste incinerator in Victoria’s west has been rejected by the government after fierce opposition.

  • Bianca Hall and Kieran Rooney
Matt Kean, the former Liberal NSW treasurer now serving as chair of the Climate Change Authority.

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.

  • Nick O'Malley and Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Dolphins like this one which died in July are among the victims of the toxic bloom.

As South Australia’s toxic bloom lingers, politicians ramp up response

The algal bloom that has devastated multiple marine species shows no signs of dissipating.

  • Nick O'Malley
Bleaching at Ningaloo’s Tantabiddi Reef.

Record-breaking coral bleaching lays waste to WA’s most prized reefs

A wave of coral mortality has circumnavigated the globe and finally devastated what was previously considered resilient, including the state’s most famous reef.

  • Emma Young