Plibersek palms off Palmer’s coal mine in Australian first

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has blocked Clive Palmer’s coal mine near the Great Barrier Reef, marking the first time that a coal mine has been rejected under national environmental laws. 

A trio of climate patterns meant 2022 was Australia’s ninth-wettest year on record since 1900 as human-induced climate change has led to a warming of Australia’s climate by 1.47 degrees since national records began, according to the Bureau of Meteorology’s annual climate statement

And the first Youth Ocean Carnival has been pencilled in for June in Sydney as conservationist and diver Valerie Taylor urges those young and old to protect the future of our oceans. 

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek blocks Clive Palmer's Central Queensland coal mine

For the first time in history, Australia has blocked the creation of a coal mine under environmental laws, rejecting a proposal for a new coal mine about 10km from the Great Barrier Reef.

It’s official: Last year was wet – very wet

A trio of climate patterns brought heavy rainfall and an exceptionally wet but warm year in 2022, with temperatures remaining higher than average against the backdrop of human-induced climate change.

She’s the ‘really old lady of the sea’. Now Valerie Taylor wants you to save our oceans

At Wednesday’s announcement that the first Youth Ocean Carnival will be held in Sydney on June 8, Taylor said few people understood how the ocean and its tropical and subtropical reefs had changed since she started diving in 1958. “We are poisoning it, polluting it, and raping it,” she said.

UK urged to sack Tony Abbott as trade adviser for joining climate sceptic group

Critics say the former Australian PM’s membership of the Global Warming Policy Foundation think tank could affect trade deals. 

Australia is the world's leading lithium producer. Why don't we make electric vehicles?

Australia is already making batteries and building EVs on a small scale and the country has the technical ability and opportunity to make EVs end-to-end.

Alcoa was warned for years about Perth water threats, so why is our biggest dam at risk?

Internal government advice exposed serious fears that Alcoa’s mining practices near the Serpentine Dam left the water vulnerable to flows of pollutants and disease-causing pathogens.