Want to reach sceptics? Researchers suggest leaving the term ‘climate change’ out of some news coverage Editors' Picks If newsrooms want climate science sceptics to read and share news about climate change, researcher Renita Coleman recommends they do this: Leave the terms ‘climate
Pounding the pavement could do wonders for climate change, IPCC expert says April 6, 2022 By Melissa Coade Energy & Environment Calls for an urgent transition to net-zero carbon emissions in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report show changing transport habits is one
Premium Insights and analysis What if democracy and climate mitigation are incompatible? March 25, 2022 By Cameron Abadi Editors' Picks In the past 14 months, the US and Germany both held national elections that placed climate change policy squarely at the centre of national debate.
Premium Interviews Decarbonising Australia needs a plan and vision from public servants February 14, 2022 By Melissa Coade Community & Social Continuing to clutch to coal and fossil fuels is doing Australia no favours in the race to solve global warming and climate change, and one
Premium Insights and analysis Four key takeaways from COP26 November 18, 2021 By Christina Lu Editors' Picks The latest United Nations climate summit, or COP26, officially concluded Saturday, bringing an end to two long weeks of gruelling negotiations in Glasgow, Scotland, among
New tool for policymakers to address climate change crisis November 5, 2021 By Melissa Coade Federal A new package of resources to help governments adapt climate science data to inform investment and policy decisions has been unveiled at COP26 in Glasgow.
‘Australian way’ climate change solution reiterated in Glasgow November 2, 2021 By Melissa Coade Energy & Environment Scott Morrison has told the COP26 conference that the Australian government considered technology the key to a decarbonised economy. During his national statement address at
Supercomputer discovery key to making clean fuel with carbon dioxide October 11, 2021 By Melissa Coade Community & Social Researchers are one step closer to the goal of turning carbon dioxide into fuel, having developed a way to identify a group of ‘single atom’
Animals are changing their body shapes to cope with climate change September 8, 2021 By Sara Ryding and Matthew Symonds Editors' Picks Global warming is a big challenge for warm-blooded animals, which must maintain a constant internal body temperature. As anyone who’s experienced heatstroke can tell you,
Climate change means Australia may have to abandon much of its farming September 7, 2021 By Andrew Wait and Kieron Meagher Economy & Industry The findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggest Australia may have to jettison tracts of the bush unless there is a massive investment
The future is now: how the ocean can help us solve the climate crisis July 28, 2021 By Eelco Rohling, Justin Borevitz, Philip Boyd, Kerryn Brent, Zanna Chase, Laurie Menviel, Graciela Metternicht, Andrew Roberts and Chris Turney Editors' Picks The upcoming sixth assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that even prolonged warming of 1.5°C could produce progressively serious, centuries-long and, in
Premium Insights and analysis Expert savages federal vision for a ‘gas-led recovery’ May 12, 2021 By Melissa Coade Economy & Industry An interim report for the government’s national gas infrastructure plan published on Friday has been thwarted by a leading sustainability expert, who described the policy
The Briefing: Bushfire Royal Commission emphatically warns of global warming, stops short of recommending emissions reduction November 2, 2020 By Chris Woods Editors' Picks Crux of the issue The Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements Report has made extensive references to the role of global warming in exacerbating
Australia’s inland rivers are the pulse of the outback. By 2070, they’ll be unrecognisable April 21, 2020 By Zacchary Larkin Editors' Picks Inland Australia’s complex system of winding rivers, extensive wetlands, ancient waterholes and seemingly endless parched floodplains are rarely given more than a passing thought by