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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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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
Frog saunas hold the key to saving species from deadly fungus
With little more than Aldi greenhouses and Besser blocks, Australian scientists are saving critically endangered frogs from a deadly fungus one at a time.
- by Bianca Hall
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Weather
Warnings in place across NSW as town braces for second major flood in a month
Riverine communities are on standby again as heavy rain brings the possibility of minor flooding.
- by Emily Kaine, Josefine Ganko and Kayla Olaya
Could we vaccinate wild populations against the looming bird flu catastrophe?
The deadly H5N1 bird flu has spread across much of the world, killing millions of birds and tens of thousands of mammals. How will Australia respond?
- by Bianca Hall
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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
‘Calamity of compounding errors’ cuts off environmental flows in Murray-Darling Basin
State and federal environmental water holders have suspended environmental flows as they investigate their water management.
- by Nick O'Malley