Greta Thunberg allowed to sue Swedish government

Greta Thunberg and 600 other climate activists part of the group Aurora have received the go-ahead from a Swedish court to proceed with a class action lawsuit against the Swedish government for “insufficient climate policy”.

A landmark analysis has just been published by almost 50 internationally-renowned experts, including scientists focused on public and environmental health, finding the human race is swimming in a toxic soup of chemicals used to make plastics, with potentially dire consequences for humanity. Including reproductive damage, an increased risk of cancer and lower IQs in exposed children.

With six weeks left before AGL's Liddell coal-fired generator shuts down, decommissioning and demolition experts are finalising plans to clear the site. It will take less than 10 seconds for Liddell Power Station's monolithic chimney's to crash to the ground.

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Activist group Aurora to sue Swedish government
Greta Thunberg and 600 other climate activists part of the group Aurora have received the go-ahead from a Swedish court  to proceed with a class action lawsuit against the Swedish government for “insufficient climate policy”. Aurora sued the Swedish state in November, claiming it had to do more to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius in order to live up to the European Convention on Human Rights.

Uncomfortable truths about plastic
A landmark analysis has just been published by almost 50 internationally-renowned experts, including scientists focused on public and environmental health, finding the human race is swimming in a toxic soup of chemicals used to make plastics, with potentially dire consequences for humanity. Including reproductive damage, an increased risk of cancer and lower IQs in exposed children.

AGL’s Liddell decommission plans in final stages
With six weeks left before the 52-year-old coal-fired generator shuts down, decommissioning and demolition experts are finalising plans to clear the site. It will take less than 10 seconds for Liddell Power Station's monolithic chimney's to crash to the ground.

Australia’s largest solar farm officially opened
Australia's New England Solar project was officially opened today by Chris Bowen, the Federal Minister for Climate Change, marking a milestone in the project's six-year journey to generate clean, renewable energy into the National Electricity Market.

The cost of fossil fuels is to high - Letters to the editor
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued an urgent warning to the whole world, saying that global emissions are still rising, we are out of time and if we don't act faster "we risk losing it all". Letters to the editor of the Canberra Times have been featured as Australians reflect on the past and ponder on the future of the climate.

Samoan prime minister visits Canberra - with climate change on the agenda
Australia and Samoa are set to sign a new deal on education and health, as Anthony Albanese welcomes Fiamē Naomi Mata’afa to Canberra. The Samoan prime minister has put climate change action and the need for more regional consultation on the agenda. She has pushed for an end to fossil fuel subsidies and more financing for climate resilience projects in the Pacific.

Preventing further marsupial extinctions
Conserving native wildlife is a challenging task and Australia’s unenviable extinction record shows us we urgently need more sophisticated and effective approaches. Too often we focus on saving individual threatened species. But in the wild, species do not live neatly in isolation. They are part of rich ecosystems, relying on many other species to survive.

Can computers help grow food?
Well, not in the way you might expect. Digital technologies are changing how food is produced. And it's more than harvesting robots that are arriving on the scene. Companies are now pairing data centres with greenhouses, in order to capture the heat emitted by computing hardware and reusing it to grow crops indoors.