The Greens are pushing for disaster payments to be doubled to $2,000, with the increase funded by a tax on coal and gas companies as fossil fuels drive the climate change fuelling extreme weather events.  

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, published overnight, makes for grim reading with scientists confident the world will surpass 1.5 degrees of heating before 2040, leading to irreversible climate impacts including the loss and degradation of much of the world’s...

A fifth of Australia’s major coal, gas, and oil facilities emit significantly more greenhouse gas than estimated in government approvals, in some cases more than 20 times what was expected. 

When it comes to the transition from coal and gas to clean energy, the Morrison Government has shown its priority is protecting the big polluters in the fossil fuel industry from market forces rather than protecting Australians from the impacts of climate change. 

The NSW Independent Planning Commission has heard that an extension to the Narrabri coal mine would result in more scope 1 emissions than any other coal mine in Australia.

Greenpeace’s Green Electricity Guide continues to make news with many Australians switching power providers after learning that the country’s biggest electricity generators are among our biggest emitters and biggest greenwashers of their climate credentials.

With the Great Barrier Reef on the cusp of a fourth mass bleaching in six years, a new study reveals that only 0.2 percent of coral reefs globally are likely to avoid frequent heat stress if temperatures rise. Our politicians have long known that climate change is the number one threat to our...

With one eye to coal communities and another to his party’s mediocre environmental credentials, Anthony Albanese has declared Labor will support a taxpayer-funded power station in the Hunter Valley but only if the proposed white elephant can run on green hydrogen instead of gas by 2030.

The Morrison Government is pledging $1 billion for Great Barrier Reef conservation projects over the next decade, just days before Australia is due to send a report to Unesco about the state of the Reef and its plans to protect it. 

There are calls from the Greens and a progressive think tank for the Morrison Government to stop using the Northern Australia Infrastructure Fund to gift more taxpayer money to the fossil fuel industry, particularly the development of the NT’s Betaloo Basin.