Eight dead and hundreds rescued from rooftops as rainfall exceeds annual averages in just a few days
The flood broke through the levee before daybreak. By the time many residents of Lismore in…
Report says human actions are causing dangerous disruption, and window to secure a liveable future is closing
Climate breakdown is accelerating rapidly, many of the impacts will be more severe than…
There is only a small window in which to mitigate the worst effects. So make a change now, and make it one you can stick to
If the prospect of nuclear war wasn’t enough, the Intergovernmental Panel…
Australia needs to decide how much worse we want these disasters to get and take the climate action needed to keep people safe
In Lismore we have experienced floods forever. But this is not a flood…
Report says average 4% of GDP will be spent on adapting to climate breakdown, risking deeper poverty
African countries are being forced to spend billions of dollars a year coping with the effects…
Governments must focus on solutions that are already working, even when they aren’t glamorous or supported by powerful lobbyists.
Reading national climate plans feels like perusing corporate…
A new report released this week by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) looks at the causes, impacts and solutions to climate change.
Minister who led Cop26 climate talks issues stark warning on eve of landmark report from IPCC
The impacts of the climate crisis are proving much worse than predicted, and governments must act more…
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says climate effects expected to be more severe than initially predicted
Catastrophic flooding on the scale of the disaster hitting Queensland and New…
Exclusive: Some Canon Institute for Global Studies posts call the climate crisis ‘fake news’ and compare Greta Thunberg to a communist
A thinktank linked to Japanese technology giant Canon is…
Roberts suggests states could claim harm from laws not yet enacted
Several conservative justices on the US supreme court signaled on Monday that they may be willing to restrict the federal…
Glow-in-the dark beaches. Billions of trees planted in a country dominated by the desert. Levitating trains. A fake moon. A car-free, carbon-free city built in a straight line over 100 miles long…
Reforestation is one of our best tools to fight the climate crisis. In the tropics, forests have been reported to absorb 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year. A mature tree can absorb…
Carbon emissions from felling of tropical forest doubled in just two decades and are accelerating, research says
Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation this century are far higher than…
The best way to ease consumers' pain from high energy prices is to stop using fossil fuels rather than drill for more of them, the government's climate advisers say.
More intense bushfires due to climate change will slow recovery of ozone layer, scientist says
Smoke injected high into the atmosphere by the 2019-2020 Australian bushfires resulted in a depletion…