The Albanese government will radically expand a taxpayer-underwritten scheme to support new clean power generation and storage capacity, acknowledging it is needed to meet its objective of Australia…
The Albanese government’s mandatory code for the gas industry could be at risk, with the Greens vowing to disallow the scheme because it supports new gasfields even as the climate crisis worsens.…
Council becomes sixth in Queensland to oppose development of new wells after farmer concerns about sinking soil and water contamination
The largest council in Queensland’s Darling Downs region has…
The largest of the yachts in Monaco’s harbour were worth more than the annual GDP of some small island states. But few of the customers touring their decks seemed to care that buying the former would…
Just a few weeks ago, Somalis were praying for the heavens to open after a prolonged drought, following an unprecedented six failed rainy seasons, forced many to abandon their cherished nomadic way…
When Kylie Jenner launched her latest brand, KHY, on 1 November, the reality TV star – one of the most influential women in fashion – presented a collection of 12 pieces of clothing made almost…
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…
Like most climate heroes, Francy Baniwa does not consider herself anything of the sort. A writer and activist of the Baniwa people from the Alto Rio Negro Indigenous territory in the Brazilian Amazon…
In August, wildfires in Evros killed a group of people, including children, passing along a well-trodden migration route. Locals and politicians made the victims scapegoats for the disaster
Whether it’s too much rain or not enough drainage, we’re deep into November and there’s water everywhere. So, what is a puddle, when does it become a pond – and what lives in there?
When Glen Peters bought a heat pump for his home in Oslo he wasn’t thinking about the carbon it would avoid. Convenience played a role; a fireplace was too much of a hassle – the effort of having to…
Letter says government pushing ahead with new fossil fuel projects while criminalising activists who raise alarm
Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry and Ben Okri have joined the former archbishop of…
‘Bog oak’ study finds more than 400 well preserved yews, which could help solve mystery of historic rapid sea level rise
The flat landscape of the East Anglian Fens is known for its vast arable…
European Environment Agency says half of deaths could have been avoided by cutting pollution to recommended limits
Dirty air killed more than half a million people in the EU in 2021, estimates show…
In 2017, 66 people died after fires ripped through eucalyptus stands around Pedrógão Grande. Restrictions on the highly flammable trees have provoked death threats, yet others feel they do not go far…
Temperatures reached 102F in Rio last Friday as 60,000 people packed into the Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos for Swift’s concert
In Brazil, a tropical country whose famed Carnival celebrations are…
Isle of May’s wildlife warden calls it ‘soul-destroying’ to discover birds he ringed as chicks washing up dead on the Scottish coast
For decades, as dusk drew in every evening, up to 700 shags would…
Confirmed incidents of the illegal persecution of birds of prey have fallen to their lowest levels for more than a decade, according to the latest RSPB Birdcrime report.
But the conservation charity…
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