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‘Heat culture’ of Spain helps communities prepare for hot weather events in the same way they plan for the arrival of cyclones Australia should follow the Spanish city of Seville and start naming…

The sharp-tailed sandpiper migrates from Siberia to a Port of Hastings site that Tanya Plibersek last week blocked a state plan to develop A migratory shorebird that visits globally important…

Environment minister says ‘large areas of [wetland] will be destroyed or substantially modified’ by the proposal for windfarm development Tanya Plibersek has blocked plans by the Victorian…

A game that teaches people how to spot climate misinformation is now being rolled out – with the same cantankerous central character – to combat vaccine hesitancy in the developing world Most…

More than a dozen of Australia’s coral islands that help to extend the country’s maritime jurisdiction are at high risk of disappearing because of climate change, according to a study. The fate of…

As one of Australia’s most influential voices on climate, Lesley Hughes has thought deeply about how to talk about the crisis and says hope has a key role to play “I think for most climate change…

Rising risk of heatwaves and bushfires means politicians will be put to the test about the effect of the climate crisis. Already, some have roundly failed As Australia stares down the barrel of a…

Study finds ‘direct evidence’ of polar amplification on continent as scientists warn of implications of ice loss Antarctica is likely warming at almost twice the rate of the rest of the world and…

Group chaired by former chief scientist Ian Chubb writes to Tanya Plibersek, saying ‘business as usual’ on the reef is not an option

Ocean temperatures around Australia last month were 0.5C above average, as the UN’s weather agency declared the world was now in an El Niño. El Niño events influence weather extremes around the…

The Australian energy giant Woodside is spending $7bn to drill for 479m barrels-worth of oil and gas off the coast of Mexico, but it says this is all in line with keeping global heating to 1.5C. How…

By the end of March, the surface temperature of the world’s oceans was above anything seen in the 40 years that satellites have been measuring it.

Ancient air trapped deep below the surface could unlock secrets of the Earth’s past and help understand what lies ahead as CO2 in the atmosphere keeps rising When it reaches about 2.6km beneath the…