When it comes to the vexed issue of climate change, neither the Coalition nor the Labor Party has a great story to tell. But that hasn’t stopped them from claiming they are not as bad as the other side. That campaign kicked off this week with some old-fashioned scare-mongering around power prices...

The US is singling out countries that failed to lift their climate targets at last year’s COP26 summit in Glasgow, urging Australia to increase its Abbott era, 2030 emission reduction pledge this year to help prevent further destruction.

The latest report from the world’s leading authority on climate change has issued a final warning for governments on the climate, warning that we can still stave off the worst ravages of climate breakdown but only through a “now or never” dash to a low-carbon economy and society.

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. 

The media continues to churn out reams of copy on tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes’ bid to buy Australia’s biggest climate polluter, AGL, and replace its ageing and increasingly unreliable coal fleet with clean energy.

Suburbs in Sydney’s west like Penrith could face nearly two months of extreme heat above 35 degrees per year by the end of the century if carbon emissions remain high, according to a new report by Sweltering Cities and the Australia Institute. 

Offshore oil explorers are circling like sharks eyeing off new Australian oil exploration zones, despite an acknowledged acceptance that the need for new fossil fuel resources is waning as the world transitions to renewables.The Australian trucking industry has “narrowly avoided” a major crisis,...