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Bushfires
- Making fossil fuel companies pay for the cost of climate change bushfires (Jul '20)
- 'Black summer' bushfires in Cann River showed the different ways we respond to crisis (Jul '20)
- Fossil fuel industry levy should pay for bushfire impact, climate action group report says (Jul '20)
- 'Black summer' bushfires in Cann River showed the different ways we respond to crisis (Jul '20)
- Climate Change Increases the Risk of Wildfires …ScienceBrief Review (Jul '20)
- 'Shell shock': Kangaroo Island struggles to recover amid bushfire grief and Covid-19 (Jun '20)
- ‘Postcode lottery’ hindered bushfire aid for residents on NSW-Victorian border, inquiry hears (Jun '20)
- 'If you want anything done, get the Sikhs': community wins admirers for bushfire and Covid aid (Jun '20)
- Australian bushfires: FOIs shed new light on why Morrison government was ill-prepared (Jun '20)
- Australians say ABC saved lives during summer bushfires, royal commission told (Jun '20)
- Risen joins bid to deliver solar and battery storage for bushfire victims (may '20)
- Bushfire grants not enough and take too long to approve, St Vincent de Paul Society says (May '20)
- Fighting Fire with Fire - Victor Steffensen - Australian Story - ABC TV (Apr '20)
- Bushfire grants and loans face shake-up over lengthy application process (Mar '20)
- Once the smoke clears: portraits of bushfire survivors – in pictures (Mar '20)
- Smoke from Australia's bushfires killed far more people than the fires did, study says (Mar '20)
- State MPs dismayed at NSW Forestry logging unburnt habitat after bushfires (Mar ’20)
- 'We're all just waiting': NSW south coast residents still in limbo three months after bushfires (Mar ’20)
- How to get back to normal after the bushfires? ‘I feel life has changed into a Mad Max movie’ (Mar ’20)
- Bushfire crisis conditions eight times more likely under 2C warming, analysis shows (Mar '20)
- Defence Chief Angus Campbell rang Scott Morrison with concerns over bushfire promo video (Mar '20)
- Will we learn from the bushfire summer? Not if the wrong questions are asked (Feb '20)
- The burn legacy: why the science on hazard reduction is contested (Feb '20)
- Peter Dutton says 250 have been charged with arson. But the data tells a different story (Feb '20)
- I spent weeks reporting on the bushfires. This is the truth about regional Australia (Feb '20)
- No food, no fuel, no phones: bushfires showed we’re only ever one step from system collapse (Feb '20)
- 'Go back home': NZ vet turned away from helping fire-affected Aussie wildlife (Feb '20)
- Thomas Keneally: ‘These fires have changed us’ (Feb '20)
- Lots of people want to help nature after the bushfires – we must seize the moment (Feb '20)
- Watching our politicians fumble through the bushfire crisis, I’m overwhelmed by déjà vu (Jan '20)
- In the face of a bushfire catastrophe, our national conversation is still run by politics - Laura Tingle (Jan '20)
- I tried to warn Scott Morrison about the bushfire disaster. Adapting to climate change isn’t enough (Jan '20)
- There’s no evidence ‘greenies’ block bushfire hazard reduction but here’s a controlled burn idea worth trying (Jan '20)
- In fact, there’s plenty we can do to make future fires less likely (Jan '20)
- An 'absolutely seminal moment': climate change opinion shifting in face of fires (Jan '20)
- Scott Morrison can't afford to waste the bushfire crisis when Australia urgently needs its own green new deal - Malcolm Turnbull (Jan '20)
- Explainer: how effective is bushfire hazard reduction on Australia's fires? (Jan '20)
- How Rupert Murdoch Is Influencing Australia’s Bushfire Debate (Jan '20)
- Greg Mullins, former NSW Fire Commissioner talks tough on bushfire response (Jan '20)
- Morrison's government on the bushfires: from attacking climate 'lunatics' to calling in the troops (Jan '20)
- Bushfires left millions of animals dead. We should use them, not just bury them (Dec '19)
- Scott Morrison rejects calls for more bushfire help, saying volunteer firefighters 'want to be there' (Dec '19)
- Scott Morrison's Hawaii horror show: how a PR disaster unfolded (Dec '19)
- 'Doing nothing is not a solution': Matt Kean blames climate crisis for bushfires (Dec '19)
- Scott Morrison and the Coalition are fiddling as Australia burns (Dec '19)
- Former Australian fire chiefs say Coalition ignored their advice because of climate change politics (Nov '19)
- Scott Morrison says no evidence links Australia's carbon emissions to bushfires (Nov '19)
- What are the links between climate change and bushfires? – explainer (Nov '19)
- Here's 194 Ways The Coalition Have Fuelled These Bushfires. They Have Blood On Their Hands (Nov '19)
- Regional mayors criticise politicians for failing to link climate change and deadly bushfires (Nov '19)
- We've been in bushfire hell in Glen Innes – and the scientists knew it was coming (Nov '19)
- Former fire chiefs warn Australia unprepared for escalating climate threat (Apr '19)
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Environmental Politics/Activism
- Conservation efforts ‘need better data’ (Jul '20)
- Forgotten farmers, mining and anti-green invective: how the Nationals became a party for coal (Jun '20)
- Commonwealth Bank activist shareholders call out company for financing new gas projects (Jun '20)
- Claudia Karvan joins last-ditch campaign to save unburnt bushland from development (May '20)
- Anti-Adani coalmine activists target insurance broker with virtual protest (May '20)
- The Government’s Covid Commission: stacked with fossil fuel company executives (May '20)
- Australia risks becoming dumping ground for world’s heavy polluting cars (may '20)
- (Vale Jack Mondey) The green bans proved jobs-vs-environment is a sham (may '20)
- Memo to Minister Pitt: runaway climate change is a disaster for jobs (May '20)
- ‘Cashed-up activists’ should not be able to hold up developments, Australia's resources minister says (Apr '20)
- Coalition is aiming to change Australia's environment laws before review is finished (Apr '20)
- Australian CEOs must rupture the political stagnation to lead the charge on climate action (Feb '20)
- We thought Australian cars were using less fuel. New research shows we were wrong (Oct '19)
- A major scorecard gives the health of Australia’s environment less than 1 out of 10 (Apr '20)
- The end of coal-fired power can be managed or messy (Feb '20)
- Australia’s electricity market must be 100% renewables by 2035 to achieve net zero by 2050 - study ... (Feb '20)
- Carbon pricing: it’s a proven way to reduce emissions but everyone’s too scared to mention it (Feb '20)
- Conservative but green independent MP Zali Steggall could break the government’s climate policy deadlock (Feb '20)
- Labor’s climate policy is too little, too late. We must run faster to win the race (Feb '20)
- Coalition ministers at odds over emissions target after Labor commits to net zero by 2050 (Feb '20)
- The government's sudden passion for climate technology is newfound and insincere (Feb '20)
- Bushfires highlight need for urgent climate action and 'a real target', Anthony Albanese says (Feb '20)
- Labor's Richard Marles won't rule out supporting new coal developments (Feb '20)
- Public support for new coalmines falls even among Coalition voters, ANU poll finds (Feb '20)
- Australian government granted BHP repeated approval to increase carbon emissions (Feb '20)
- A 60% rise in industrial emissions points to failure of Coalition's 'safeguard mechanism' (Feb '20)
- Scott Morrison leaves open indemnification of new coal-fired power station (Feb '20)
- Morrison government to spend up to $4m in grant for feasibility study into coal-fired power plant in Queensland (Feb '20)
- Big polluters again allowed to lift emissions without penalty (Feb '20)
- I enjoy taking climate deniers to task but here’s the question Q&A should have answered (Feb ’20)
- Witnesses fight back tears at NSW inquiry into 'anti-climate' scope 3 emissions law (Feb '20)
- Pardon me for getting “religious” about climate change (Feb '20)
- Scott Morrison talks big about pressure on gas prices but says nothing about flooding markets with coal (Feb '20)
- Falling ash, skies of blood – and now Australia’s anger smoulders (Jan '20)
- Australia already 'carrying its load' on emissions and must adapt to warmer climate, PM says (Jan '20)
- Company approved to take 96 million litres of water from drought-ravaged Queensland town (Jan '20)
- Scott Morrison says NSW minister Matt Kean 'doesn't know what he's talking about' on climate (Jan '20)
- There’s nothing safe about a country in flames, and the Coalition will exploit that (Jan '20)
- Australia’s pathetic PM reveals much about the right’s effort to deny reality (Jan '20)
- The people in power will let your country burn (Jan '20)
- The government has been forced to talk about climate change, so it’s taking a subtle – and sinister – approach (Jan '20)
- This apocalyptic Australian summer is our Sandy Hook moment – if we don't take climate action now we never will (Jan '20)
- I've always voted Liberal, but after sheltering my family on a beach I cannot support this government (Jan '20)
- Beware terrorists but don't sweat the climate crisis – how blind can Morrison be? (Dec '19)
- What Albanese could have said: we lied – Australian coalmines have no future - Richard Flanagan (Dec '19)
- Scott Morrison rejects calls for more bushfire help, saying volunteer firefighters 'want to be there' (Dec '19)
- Chinese company approved to run water mining operation in drought-stricken Queensland (Dec '19)
- Attempt to declare a national climate emergency rejected by federal government (Nov '19)
- Building more dams won’t make it rain. Nor will bringing in millions (Oct '19)
- National School Strike for Climate sees students across the country planning to skip school (Sep '19)
- Global fossil fuel subsidies reach $5.2 trillion, and $29 billion in Australia (May '19)
- We all smell the smoke, we all feel the heat. This environmental catastrophe is global - Alexis Wright (May '19)
- Here's why I am striking from school on Friday (Mar '19)
- Climate change strikes across Australia see student protesters defy calls to stay in school (Mar '19)
- The pro-coal ‘Monash Forum’ may do little but blacken the name of a revered Australian (Apr '18)
- Coal and the Coalition: the policy knot that still won’t untie (Sep '17)
- That Lump of Coal (Feb '17)
- What caused South Australia’s state-wide blackout? (Sep '16)
- Officials admit no modelling shows how Australia will meet Paris climate pledge (Sep '16)
- UN official 'talking through her hat' on bushfires and climate change, says Tony Abbott (Oct '13)
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Drought
- Before and after the drought: how one Australian family farm sprang back to life - in pictures (Jun '20)
- Last summer’s fish carnage sparked public outrage. Here’s what has happened since (Feb '20)
- The unequal cost of the drought (Feb '20)
- How drought is affecting water supply in Australia’s capital cities (Dec '19)
- These drought-hit young people feel forgotten, but they're speaking up with their ideas on dealing with the dry (Oct '19)
- Scott Morrison says drought the Coalition's 'first call' – but makes no mention of climate (Oct '19)
- Moira Shire misses Government drought money threshold by a fraction (Oct '19)
- Farmers' protest is a sign water politics is about to go into hyperdrive (Aug '19)
- The Darling River is simply not supposed to dry out, even in drought (Jan '19)
- It will take decades, but the Murray Darling Basin Plan is delivering environmental improvements (May '18)
- The science behind the Murray-Darling Basin plan (Nov '11)
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Climate Solutions
- 'We pay a tax to produce clean energy': the Queensland pig farmer who is leading the way on climate action (Aug ’20)
- Electric cars have few downsides except price. One company is looking to change that (Jul ’20)
- If we could design JobKeeper within weeks, we can exit coal by 2030. Here’s how to do it (Jun ’20)
- Let’s fix Australia’s environment with any pandemic recovery aid – the Kiwis are doing it (Jun ’20)
- Climate explained: could the world stop using fossil fuels today? (Jun '20)
- Meridian proposes new wind and battery “energy park” for northern NSW (may '20)
- Getting off coal: Economic and social policies to manage the phase-out of thermal coal in Australia (May '20)
- More people will live in the country and work from home after COVID, experts say (may '20)
- Backyard beekeeping is on the rise as bee populations come under threat (may '20)
- Coronavirus is a ‘sliding doors’ moment. What we do now could change Earth’s trajectory (may '20)
- Green steel industry could secure jobs future for Australia's coalmining heartland (May '20)
- Australia is facing a 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' as cycling booms, advocates say (may '20)
- Seizing the moment: how Australia can build a green economy from the Covid-19 wreckage (may '20)
- Australia's electricity grid could run with 75% renewables, market operator says (Apr '20)
- Australia’s path to net-zero emissions lies in rapid, stimulus-friendly steps (Apr '20)
- Albanese says we can’t replace steelmaking coal. But we already have green alternatives (Feb '20)
- It might sound ‘batshit insane’ but Australia could soon export sunshine to Asia via a 3,800km cable (Feb '20))
- Mike and Annie Cannon-Brookes pledge $12m to supply solar systems for disaster relief (Feb '20)
- Chief Scientist: we need to transform our world into a sustainable ‘electric planet’ (Feb '20)
- 44 inspiring climate solutions from around the world that are tackling the climate crisis with practical action (Feb '20)
- We need politicians to have the guts to admit it's going to hurt to fight climate change (Dec '19)
- Australia could fall apart under climate change. But there’s a way to avoid it (Nov '19)
- 80% of household water goes to waste – we need to get it back (Oct '19)
- Divestment works – and one huge bank can lead the way (Oct '19)
- Coal mines can be closed without destroying livelihoods – here’s how (Oct '19)
- Here’s why electric cars have plenty of grunt, oomph and torque (Aug '19)
- Stemming the tide of trash: 5 essential reads on recycling (mar '19)
- How hydrogen power can help us cut emissions, boost exports, and even drive further between refills (Aug '18)
- How electric cars can help save the grid (Mar '17)
- Australians can have zero-emission electricity, without blowing the bill (Dec '16)
- The woman who loves garbage: Veena Sahajwalla on making the best of waste (Jan'16)
- The burning question - Robert Macfarlane argues that writers can play a crucial role in helping us to imagine the impact of climate change (Sep '05)
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Govt Environment Policy
- Instead they saved the Dish (Aug '20)
- ‘No purpose’ to Coalition’s climate policy after big polluters increase emissions by 1.6m tonnes (Aug '20)
- Today, Australia’s Kyoto climate targets end and our Paris cop-out begins. That’s nothing to be proud of, Mr Taylor (Jul '20)
- Let there be no doubt: blame for our failing environment laws lies squarely at the feet of government (Jun '20)
- Referrals, Assessments and Approvals of Controlled Actions under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 … National Audit Office (Jun '20)
- New plans for Barwon-Darling river system still prioritise irrigation over environment (Jun '20)
- Reserve Bank warns of 25% GDP loss by 2100 unless action taken on climate change (Jun '20)
- Scientists fear Coalition's push to deregulate environmental approvals will lead to extinction crisis (Jun '20)
- Mr Morrison, you can cut ‘green tape’ without harming nature – but it’ll take money and gumption (Jun '20)
- Matt Canavan says Australia doesn’t subsidise the fossil fuel industry, an expert says it does (Jun '20)
- Finally there is real movement on Australia's climate policy but time isn’t on our side (Jun '20)
- Coalition reveals new emissions reduction measures, including paying polluters to stay under cap (May '20)
- A pretty good start but room for improvement: 3 experts rate Australia’s emissions technology plan (May '20)
- Leaked Covid-19 commission report calls for Australian taxpayers to underwrite gas industry expansion (May '20)
- Morrison government dangles new carrots for industry but fails to fix bigger climate policy problem (May '20)
- Angus Taylor says it is not Australian government policy to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 (May '20)
- Inside the Liberal state stepping into a low-emissions future (Mar '20)
- Morrison government to stop funding international collaboration on shift to zero emissions (Mar '20)
- SCOTT MORRISON’S GAS TRANSITION PLAN IS A DANGEROUS ROAD TO NOWHERE - Climate Council (Feb '20)
- Coalition's axing of funding to climate change adaptation body condemned (Jan '20)
- Wrong way, go back: a proposed new tax on electric vehicles is a bad idea (Dec '19)
- Revealed: northern Australia's fossil fuel plans push climate goals beyond reach (Oct '19)
- Coalition quietly appoints expert panel to salvage emissions policy (Oct '19)
- Five years after carbon price repeal, Australia remains in policy abyss (Jul '19)
- Adani water plan ticked off within hours despite lack of detail, internal CSIRO emails reveal (may '19)
- New Zealand rules out using 'Kyoto credits' for Paris, Australia shtum (Dec '18)
- Fossil fuel subsidies increased in 2017, says IEA (Oct '18)
Land Clearing
Government Failure
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Climate Inaction
- Sydney's water supply at risk because of department failure on conservation, audit finds (Jun '20)
- Why the pandemic could slash the amount of plastic waste we recycle (Jun '20)
- Australia’s most senior former public servants and scientists reveal their anger about climate policy failure (may '20)
- Top Australian former officials blast country’s ‘failure’ on climate change (May '20)
- Australia listened to the science on coronavirus. Imagine if we did the same for coal mining (may '20)
- Australia is flattening the coronavirus curve. Why can’t we do the same for climate? (May ‘20)
- Transport is letting Australia down in the race to cut emissions (Mar '20)
- 30 years of Australia's hollow promises on climate policy (Feb '20)
- Our government is choosing to fail on climate and trying to make a virtue of it (Jan '20)
- Talking Point: Governments face a reckoning in the courts over climate change failure (Jan '20)
- Coalition claims it will meet 2030 emissions target – but only by using accounting loophole (Dec '19)
- It’s the 10-year anniversary of our climate policy abyss. But don’t blame the Greens (Dec '19)
- As Angus Taylor ducks, weaves and dithers, China zooms past (Jun '19)
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Energy Policy
- Hopes of a gas boom fizzle (Aug ’20)
- Sinking billions of taxpayer dollars into gas would make Australia an international pariah (Aug ’20)
- How Australia's state energy ministers are turning the tables on Angus Taylor (Jul ’20)
- 'Mystifying': Minister backs coal as super fund vows to exit (Jul ’20)
- NSW’s bullish coal export plan defies the global market realities (Jun ’20)
- Major energy companies call on Coalition to set target of net zero emissions by 2050 (Jun ’20)
- Strategic Statement on Coal Explorations and Mining in NSW (Jun ’20)
- Up to 11,000 renewable energy jobs could be lost under Morrison government policies (Jun ’20)
- Australia has failed miserably on energy efficiency – and government figures hide the truth (Jun ’20)
- Victoria gives green light to conventional onshore gas exploration but bans fracking (Jun ’20)
- New territory opens for keen gas explorers (Queensland Govt Announcement) (Jun ’20)
- A single mega-project exposes the Morrison government’s gas plan as staggering folly (may ’20)
- Business, unions and green groups call for sustainable Covid-19 recovery with clean energy transition (May ’20)
- Resources industry to receive coronavirus boost with land release for coal and gas exploration in Queensland (May ’20)
- Coalition’s Technology Investment Roadmap: Poor policy in practice (may ’20)
- Gas lobby seizes Covid moment, and declares war on Australia’s future (may ’20)
- Taylor puts gas and CCS at centre of technology roadmap, coal and nuclear not excluded (may ’20)
- Neoliberalism has made Australia's oil reserves a time bomb (may ’20)
- Is the Coalition's gas nirvana just an attempt to have its fossil fuel cake and eat it too? (may ’20)
- Government offers $300m to boost hydrogen investment under clean energy financing (Apr ’20)
- Angus Taylor’s energy projects push (Apr ’20)
- Zali Steggall calls for probe of Coalition plan to underwrite gas, hydro and coal power (Apr ‘20)
- Gas to fire economic recovery and capitalise on cheap oil prices (Apr ’20)
- Snowy 2.0 is a wolf in sheep’s clothing – it will push carbon emissions up, not down (Mar ’20)
- NSW has approved Snowy 2.0. Here are six reasons why that’s a bad move (Mar ’20)
- NSW approves coal mine expansion under drinking water catchment (Mar ’20)
- 'Expensive and underperforming': energy audit finds gas power running well below capacity (Mar ’20)
- Snowy Hydro 2.0 will cost more and deliver less than promised, 30 experts say (Mar ‘20)
- Scott Morrison’s gas transition plan is a dangerous road to nowhere (Feb '20)
- Angus Taylor to announce shift in climate investment away from wind and solar (Feb '20)
- Energy policy can make or break a prime minister, and Scott Morrison knows it (Feb '20)
- Narrabri farmers feel 'sold out' by federal-NSW energy deal that boosts gas supply (Jan '20)
- Snowy 2.0 will not produce nearly as much electricity as claimed. We must hit the pause button (Oct '19)
- NSW government says new planning laws give certainty for mines (Oct '19)
- Is Australia the only OECD country that does not use nuclear power? … aap Factcheck of statement by Resources Minister (Aug) '19)
- Cap vehicle emissions if you won't price carbon, Chief Scientist tells government (May '19)
- The government’s electricity shortlist rightly features pumped hydro (and wrongly includes coal) (Mar '19)
- How not to introduce a carbon tax: The Australian experience The Irish Times (Jan '19)
- 'I don't see any evidence': Minister rejects CEOs' carbon price push (Dec '18)
- Big firms voice lack of faith in ‘cumbersome’ and ‘impractical’ Emissions Reduction Fund (Oct '18)
- It’s clear why coal struggles for finance – and the government can’t change that (Oct '18)
- Australia to ditch climate targets bill after PM ousting (Sep '18)
- The reality is new coal power is not the answer for cheaper electricity bills (Sep '18)
- Argument for subsidies has no power in economic merit based world (Jul '18)
- Finkel’s Clean Energy Target plan ‘better than nothing’: economists poll (Aug '17)
- Australia can’t lose in the global race for cheaper, cleaner energy (Jun '17)
- Emissions Trading Scheme … Parliament of Australia Release (Aug '08)
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Renewables
- Renewable energy can save the natural world – but if we’re not careful, it will also hurt it (Sep '20)
- Forest Wind and Australia’s renewables revolution: how big clean energy projects risk leaving local communities behind (Aug '20)
- New gas-fired power not needed as renewable energy expands, grid operator says (Jul '20)
- IEEFA Australia: Dubbo’s new renewables zone shows the path away from fossil fuels (Jul '20)
- NSW government says renewable energy zone in New England could power 3.5m homes (Jul '20)
- Renewable Energy Employment in Australia UTS Research
- Atlassian's Mike Cannon-Brookes says clean energy 'best opportunity' for COVID-19 rebound (Jul '20)
- 45,000 renewables jobs are Australia’s for the taking – but how many will go to coal workers? (Jul '20)
- Australia could create hundreds of thousands of jobs by accelerating shift to zero emissions – report (Jun '20)
- Up to 11,000 renewable energy jobs could be lost under Morrison government policies (Jun '20)
- People need to see the benefits from local renewable energy projects, and that means jobs (Jun '20)
- More jobs in renewable-led COVID-19 economic recovery, EY report finds (Jun '20)
- Energy giants want to thwart reforms that would help renewables and lower power bills (Jun '20)
- Really Australia, it’s not that hard: 10 reasons why renewable energy is the future (May ’20)
- It’s time Coalition listened to experts on climate and energy, and plotted a Green New Deal (May ’20)
- Want an economic tonic, Mr Morrison? Use that stimulus money to turbocharge renewables (May ’20)
- Australia's Reserve Bank fuels call for post-pandemic renewables push (May ’20)
- Australia's electricity grid could run with 75% renewables, market operator says (apr ’20)
- Wind and solar plants will soon be cheaper than coal in all big markets around world, analysis finds (mar '20)
- Australia’s electricity market must be 100% renewables by 2035 to achieve net zero by 2050 - study ... (Feb '20)
- Rise of renewables may see off oil firms decades earlier than they think (Oct '19)
- The new electricity boom: renewable energy makes staggering leap but can it last? (Jul '19)
- Annual update finds renewables are cheapest new-build power (dec '18)
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Warnings
- Affluence is killing the planet, warn scientists (Jun '20)
- Reserve Bank warns of 25% GDP loss by 2100 unless action taken on climate change (Jun '20)
- Scientists’ warning on affluence Nature Magazine Research Journal (Jun '20)
- Scientists fear Coalition's push to deregulate environmental approvals will lead to extinction crisis (Jun '20)
- World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert (Jun '20)
- Australia’s ‘failing’ environmental laws will fuel further public health crises, Nobel laureate warns (may '20)
- Former fire chiefs warn Australia unprepared for escalating climate threat (Apr '19)
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The Science (incl. Scientific Opinion)
- Dishing the dirt: Australia’s move to store carbon in soil is a problem for tackling climate change (Aug '20)
- Rising temperatures will cause more deaths than all infectious diseases – study (Aug '20)
- Climate Change Increases the Risk of Wildfires …ScienceBrief Review (Jul '20)
- New research shows the South Pole is warming faster than the rest of the world (Jun '20)
- World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert (Jun '20)
- Novel interventions are more than a ‘cool idea’ for the Great Barrier Reef (may '20)
- Australia’s ‘failing’ environmental laws will fuel further public health crises, Nobel laureate warns (may '20)
- Australia listened to the science on coronavirus. Imagine if we did the same for coal mining (may '20)
- While we fixate on coronavirus, Earth is hurtling towards a catastrophe worse than the dinosaur extinction (Apr '20)
- Coronavirus is a wake-up call: our war with the environment is leading to pandemics (Mar ‘20)
- Coronavirus: 'Nature is sending us a message’, says UN environment chief (Mar ‘20)
- From 2014 to 2015 I approached the world’s leading climate scientists and asked them to respond to one simple question: (How Does It Feel?)
- Carbon footprint of global natural gas supplies to China - Nature Magazine (Mar ’20)
- 'I'm profoundly sad, I feel guilty': scientists reveal personal fears about the climate crisis (Mar ’20)
- Climate change could spark 'global systemic crisis', scientists warn (Feb '20)
- 222 scientists say cascading crises are the biggest threat to the well-being of future generations (Feb '20)
- Dr Alan Finkel: 'All problems can be solved but this is a complex problem' (Feb '20)
- Scientists call on MPs to urgently reduce Australia's emissions amid bushfire crisis (Feb '20)
- The world has made the link between Australian coal, fires and climate (Jan '20)
- Leading scientists condemn political inaction on climate change as Australia 'literally burns' (Dec '19)
- The Woman Who Discovered the Cause of Global Warming Was Long Overlooked. Her Story Is a Reminder to Champion All Women Leading on Climate (Jul '19)
- New UN report outlines ‘urgent, transformational’ change needed to hold global warming to 1.5°C (Oct '18)
- Climate change damage to Queensland's world heritage rainforest 'as bad as Great Barrier Reef' (Apr '19)
- We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN (Oct '18)
- IPCC climate change report calls for urgent action to phase out fossil fuels (Oct '18)
- Great Barrier Reef faces dire threat with 2C global warming, UN report says (Oct '18)
- The Finkel Review: finally, a sensible and solid footing for the electricity sector (Jun '17)
- The Finkel Review at a glance (Jun '17)
- This Lady Scientist Defined the Greenhouse Effect But Didn’t Get the Credit, Because of Sexism (Dec '16)
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Climate Change Denialism
- Eden-Monaro Liberal candidate says reducing fuel is the only way to manage bushfires (Jun '20)
- The number of climate deniers in Australia is more than double the global average, new survey finds (Jun '20)
- Australia has a problem with climate change denial. The message just isn't getting through (Jun '20)
- Climate scepticism remains at the top of AMP (may '20)
- Who are the 75 Australian 'scientists and professionals' who say there is no climate emergency? (Feb '20)
- Tony Abbott and the climate change fandango (Feb '20)
- Senator Jim Molan grilled over climate change, bushfire response on Q&A with Hamish Macdonald (Feb '20)
- Bushfires, bots and arson claims: Australia flung in the global disinformation spotlight (Jan '20)
- Tony Abbott, former Australian PM, tells Israeli radio the world is 'in the grip of a climate cult' (Jan '20)
- Now that climate change is irrefutable, denialists like Andrew Bolt insist it will be good for us (Jan '20)
- 'Almost a religious aspect': Tony Abbott downplays link between bushfires and climate change (Jan '20)
- Australia’s Infernal Denial (Jan '20)
- The climate denialist IPA and its 'public interest' charity status (Nov '19)
- Climate denialism is bought and paid for by a rotten political system (Nov '19)
- Australia wasted decades in climate denial – and must break free of the mire of misinformation (Oct '19)
- The big polluters’ masterstroke was to blame the climate crisis on you and me (Oct '19)
- There’s a good reason we’re moderating climate change deniers: uninformed comments undermine expertise (Sep '19)
- Climate explained: Why are climate change skeptics often right-wing conservatives? (Sep '19)
- We want to learn about climate change from weather presenters, not politicians (Sep '19)
- Scott Morrison does not want kids to have 'anxieties' about climate change after Greta Thunberg's speech (Sep '19)
- Australian natural disasters minister's complete about face: 'I believe in climate science' (Sep '19)
- Australian natural disasters minister David Littleproud: 'I don't know if climate change is manmade' (Sep '19)
- Climate explained: why some people still think climate change isn’t real (Oct '19)
- How one think tank poisoned Australia’s climate debate (Jan '19)
- The Morrison government’s biggest economic problem? Climate change denial (Oct '18)
- Simon Birmingham’s intervention in research funding is not unprecedented, but dangerous (Oct '18)
- Gina Rinehart company revealed as $4.5m donor to climate sceptic thinktank (Jul '18)
- Why some conservatives are blind to climate change (Jun '18)
- With friends like these: just how close are the Liberal Party and IPA? (Jun '18)
- Love In A Hot Climate: The Horrible Mess of Climate Change Politics (Nov '17)
- Tony Abbott says climate change is 'probably doing good' (Oct '17)
- The IPA’s influence on climate change policy is a far greater threat than terrorism (Jun '17)
- That Lump of Coal (Feb '17)
- Liberals' attack on climate science is 'embarrassing', say scientists (Jul '15)
- Coal 'good for humanity', Prime Minister Tony Abbott says at $3.9b Queensland mine opening (Oct '14)
- Abbott’s faceless men of the IPA (Jun '14)
- Tony Abbott: I am a conservationist and we should rest lightly on the planet (Jun '14)
- Divestment backlash shows companies need to improve sustainability reporting (oct '14)
- Fact check: How Maurice Newman misrepresents science to claim future global cooling (Aug '14)
- With no work in lockdown, tour operators helped find coral bleaching on Western Australia’s remote reefs (Jul '20)
- Referrals, Assessments and Approvals of Controlled Actions under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 … National Audit Office (Jun '20)
- Shortfalls in the Murray–Darling Basin (Jun '20)
- Restoring a gem in the Murray-Darling Basin: the success story of the Winton Wetlands (Jun '20)
- 'It's only important if you eat food': inside a film on the honeybee crisis (Jun '20)
- Don’t count your fish before they hatch: experts react to plans to release 2 million fish into the Murray Darling (Jun '20)
- The Leadbeater’s possum finally had its day in court. It may change the future of logging in Australia (Jun '20)
- Australia, it’s time to talk about our water emergency (May '20)
- Australian government stops listing major threats to species under environment laws (May '20)
- Quantifying biodiversity trade-offs in the face of widespread renewable and unconventional energy development - Nature (May '20)
- No, Aussie bats won’t give you COVID-19. We rely on them more than you think (Apr '20)
- Numbers of critically endangered orange-bellied parrot soar from low 20s to more than 100 (Apr '20)
- Ban wildlife markets to avert pandemics, says UN biodiversity chief (Apr '20)
- How the humble dung beetle engineers better ecosystems in Australia (Mar '20)
- David Pocock's 2020s vision: Heal the land, secure our future (Jan '20)
- Fish kills and undrinkable water: here’s what to expect for the Murray Darling this summer (Nov '19)
- ‘Revolutionary change’ needed to stop unprecedented global extinction crisis (May '19)
- Death by 775 cuts: how conservation law is failing the black-throated finch (jan '19)
- Biodiversity crisis is about to put humanity at risk, UN scientists to warn (Feb '19)
- Look after the soil, save the Earth: farming in Australia's unrelenting climate (Oct '18)
- Native forest protections are deeply flawed, yet may be in place for another 20 years (Mar '18)
- Money can’t buy me love, but you can put a price on a tree (Oct '17)
Biodiversity
Number of articles: - NSW has failed to properly assess impact on wildlife of Warragamba dam changes, federal government says (Aug '20)
- Prominent NSW irrigator acquitted of taking water from Barwon-Darling (Aug '20)
- Australia's environment in unsustainable state of decline, major review finds (Jul '20)
- With no work in lockdown, tour operators helped find coral bleaching on Western Australia’s remote reefs (Jul '20)
- ‘A mockery’: Great Barrier Reef Foundation raises just $21m of $357m target (Jul '20)
- Coconut oil production threatens five times more species than palm oil – new findings (Jul '20)
- Koalas will be driven to extinction before 2050 in NSW, major inquiry finds (Jun '20)
- Morrison government urged to fix flawed environmental offsets leaving threatened species at risk … National Audit Office (Jun '20)
- NSW makes record land purchase for new national park (Jun '20)
- Morrison government has failed in its duty to protect environment, auditor general finds (Jun '20)
- Affluence is killing the planet, warn scientists (Jun '20)
- Scientists fear Coalition's push to deregulate environmental approvals will lead to extinction crisis (Jun '20)
- Million hectares of threatened species' habitat cleared without assessments (Jun '20)
- Ban on toxic mercury looms in sugar cane farming, but Australia still has a way to go (Jun '20)
- Plastic superhighway: the awful truth of our hidden ocean waste (Jun '20)
- At least 1,241 tonnes of microplastics are dumped into Aussie farmland every year from wastewater sludge (Jun '20)
- Recovery of Australia’s soils following bushfires (May '20)
- Australia's national environment laws 'actually allow extinction to happen' (May '20)
- It’s official: expert review rejects NSW plan to let seawater flow into the Murray River (May '20)
- State MPs dismayed at NSW Forestry logging unburnt habitat after bushfires (Mar ’20)
- NSW land-clearing approvals increased 13-fold since laws relaxed in 2016 (Mar ‘20)
- Most native bird species are losing their homes, even the ones you see every day (Oct ‘19)
- Which animals should live or die on Australia's long list of threatened species? (Jun ‘19)
- One million species at risk of extinction, UN report warns, and we are mostly to blame (May ‘19)
- Fixing Australia’s extinction crisis means thinking bigger than individual species (May ‘19)
- Invasive species are Australia’s number-one extinction threat (May ‘19)
- Rare Australian species could slip into extinction as jobs axed at environment department (May ‘19)
- Record numbers of Australia's wildlife species face 'imminent extinction' (Mar ‘19)
- We wrote the report for the minister on fish deaths in the lower Darling – here’s why it could happen again (Apr ‘19)
- To reduce fire risk and meet climate targets, over 300 scientists call for stronger land clearing laws (Mar ‘19)
- Australia leads on extinction rate: report (Mar ‘18)
- Why aren’t Australia’s environment laws preventing widespread land clearing? (Mar ‘18)
- 'A national disgrace': Australia's extinction crisis is unfolding in plain sight (Feb ‘18)
- Australia needs better policy to end the alarming increase in land clearing (Aug ‘16)
- Queensland land clearing is undermining Australia’s environmental progress (Feb ‘16)
- Fact check: Does Australia have one of the 'highest loss of species anywhere in the world'? (Aug ‘15)
Species/Environment/Habitat (Protection/Destruction)
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Agriculture
- New research: nitrous oxide emissions 300 times more powerful than CO₂ are jeopardising Earth’s future (Oct '20)
- We have to wake up: factory farms are breeding grounds for pandemics (Apr '20)
- Is factory farming (partly) to blame for Coronavirus (Mar ’20)
- $1m a minute: the farming subsidies destroying the world - report (Sep '19)
- Not just activists, 9 out of 10 people are concerned about animal welfare in Australian farming (May '19)
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Emissions
- Australian Government Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources: Greenhouse Gas publications and resources
- Yes, carbon emissions fell during COVID-19. But it’s the shift away from coal that really matters (May '20)
- Coalition reveals new emissions reduction measures, including paying polluters to stay under cap (May '20)
- Inside the Liberal state stepping into a low-emissions future (Mar '20)
- Transport is letting Australia down in the race to cut emissions (Mar '20)
- Morrison government to stop funding international collaboration on shift to zero emissions (Mar '20)
- Australia’s electricity market must be 100% renewables by 2035 to achieve net zero by 2050 - study (Feb '20)
- Big polluters again allowed to lift emissions without penalty (Feb '20)
- Australian government granted BHP repeated approval to increase carbon emissions (Feb '20)
- A 60% rise in industrial emissions points to failure of Coalition's 'safeguard mechanism' (Feb '20)
- Carbon pricing: it’s a proven way to reduce emissions but everyone’s too scared to mention it (Feb '20)
- Australia already 'carrying its load' on emissions and must adapt to warmer climate, PM says (Jan '20)
- Coalition claims it will meet 2030 emissions target – but only by using accounting loophole (Dec '19)
- Clean, green machines: the truth about electric vehicle emissions (Sep '19)
- Climate explained: how emissions trading schemes work and they can help us shift to a zero carbon future (Aug '19)
- Australians could have saved over $1 billion in fuel if car emissions standards were introduced 3 years ago (May '19)
- Why battery-powered vehicles stack up better than hydrogen (Nov '18)
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The Markets
- Major investment firm dumps Exxon, Chevron and Rio Tinto stock (Aug '20)
- Suncorp out of oil and gas drilling, leaving QBE isolated (Aug '20)
- Creative destruction: the COVID-19 economic crisis is accelerating the demise of fossil fuels (Aug '20)
- First State Super to divest from thermal coal mining investments (Jul '20)
- Top super fund dumps coal miners as emissions cuts intensify (Jul '20)
- Super giant HESTA divests coal, commits to 'net zero' investments by 2050 (Jun '20)
- IEEFA update: Coal finance is heading to its logical terminal conclusion (Jun '20)
- Adani mine: three major insurers to have no further involvement in coal project (Jun '20)
- Norway’s giant oil fund ditches stake in Australia's AGL over fossil fuel concerns (May '20)
- Westpac to withdraw support for thermal coalmining after 2030 (May '20)
- Coal developers risk $600 billion as renewables outcompete worldwide (Mar '20)
- Australia’s major banks keep on fueling the climate crisis (Mar '20)
- QBE told to stop fuelling climate crisis (Feb '20)
- Insurers withdrawing cover from coal projects double in 2019 (Dec '19)
- Commonwealth Bank - Climate Risk Report (2019)
- Investments in new power generating capacity would bring an economic return for decades
- Australia’s major banks keep on fueling the climate crisis (Mar '20)
- European Investment Bank to phase out fossil fuel financing (Nov '19)
- Saudi Aramco valuation falls below $2tn target (Nov'19)
- Why are asset managers investing in fossil fuel companies? (Oct '19)
- Australia is the world's third-largest exporter of CO2 in fossil fuels, report finds (Aug '19)
- Batteries the winner, as 5-minute rule promises to end gas market gaming (Jun '19)
- Banks increasing exposure to fossil fuels despite promises to fight climate change: report (Jan '19)
- The true cost of keeping the Liddell power plant open (Sep '17)
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Rest of the World (incl. view of Australia)
- 'A shame for the world': Uganda's fragile forest ecosystem destroyed for sugar (Jun '20)
- Polluter bailouts and lobbying during Covid-19 pandemic (Apr '20)
- Australia Just Killed Off Another Prime Minister in Its Endless Showdown Over Climate Policy (Aug '18)
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Mining & Fossil Fuel Interests
- Australian coal plants 'on a hiding to nothing' and likely to close before schedule (Sep '20)
- Adani quietly rebranding Abbot Point terminal as company hit with $107m damages bill (Aug '20)
- Santos’ claim Narrabri CSG development will lower prices misrepresents government evidence, thinktank says (Aug '20)
- BHP commits to selling its thermal coalmines within two years (Aug '20)
- A Savage Call: energy tsar calls time on Australia’s gas cartel (Jul '20)
- Matt Canavan says there's no government subsidisation of Australia's fossil fuel industries. Is he correct? (Jul '20)
- Collinsville coal-fired power station is backed by 'big mining companies', Queensland LNP says (Jul '20)
- Shine Energy invited to apply for Collinsville power station grant two days after securing it (Jul '20)
- New Acland coalmine fined just $9,461 for 34 separate noise violations (Jun '20)
- Leaked tape reveals Rio Tinto does not regret destroying 46,000-year-old Aboriginal rock shelter to expand mine (Jun '20)
- How your tax dollars subsidise fossil fuels (Jun '20)
- BHP to destroy at least 40 Aboriginal sites, up to 15,000 years old, to expand Pilbara mine (Jun '20)
- New Acland coalmine: Queensland farmers win reprieve in battle to stop expansion (Jun '20)
- Rio Tinto blames 'misunderstanding' for destruction of 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site (Jun '20)
- Coronavirus crisis could cause $25tn fossil fuel industry collapse (Jun '20)
- Q+A: Matt Canavan grilled on climate change and family links to coal industry (Jun '20)
- Rio Tinto apologises to traditional owners after blasting 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site (Jun '20)
- Covert-19: Government stacks Covid Commission with oil and gas mates, cosy deals follow (May ’20)
- West Erregulla receives Western Australian Government support (May ’20)
- All controversial projects determined in 12 weeks, Minister demands (May ’20)
- Resources industry to receive coronavirus boost with land release for coal and gas exploration in Queensland (May ’20)
- How one mine ate a town … a Queensland town’s decades-long legal fight against being subsumed by a coalmine could end next week as the case reaches the High Court of Australia. But not before a final turn of the screws. (may '20)
- Rio Tinto blasts 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site to expand iron ore mine (may '20)
- Fossil fuel industry applauds Coalition climate measures that support carbon capture and storage (may '20)
- The fossil fuel lobby is running a concerted campaign to exploit this global health crisis to further their agenda.
- Santos hopes for Narrabri gas verdict 'no later than August' (May '20)
- NSW and Queensland coal industry uses as much water as all Sydney households, report finds (May '20)
- Rio Tinto accused of violating human rights in Bougainville for not cleaning up Panguna mine (Apr '20)
- Big win for fossil fuels as regulators seek 12 month delay on 5-minute rule change (Apr '20)
- Matt Canavan billed taxpayers $5,390 for charter flight to attend coalmine opening (Mar ‘20)
- Equinor has abandoned oil-drilling plans in the Great Australian Bight - so what’s next? (Feb '20)
- Great Australian Bight: Equinor abandons plans to drill for oil (Feb '20)
- Smoke screen: how Australia's biggest polluters have been free to increase emissions (Feb '20)
- Cheap gas, really? Why gas — from coal seams or ships — may not mean low power prices (Feb '20)
- New resources minister Keith Pitt rejects calls for higher taxes on gas industry (Feb '20)
- Morrison delivers big fossil fuel win for major donor Santos (Feb '20)
- Australia’s Top 40 Tax Dodgers 2020: fossil fuels dominate once more (Jan '20)
- Fifty seven million ways the carbon industrial complex infects Australian politics (Jan '20)
- GE’s Climate Hypocrisy: Building Coal Plants While Touting Clean Energy (Sep '19)
- Interactive: Everything you need to know about Adani – from cost, environmental impact and jobs to its possible future (May '19)
- Gas deal: “a massive transfer of wealth from gas customers to China and Singapore” (May '19)
- Global fossil fuel subsidies reach $5.2 trillion, and $29 billion in Australia (May '19)
- Adani did not 'accept in full' changes sought by scientists during approval stages, meeting notes show (apr '18)
- Australian miners hit by biggest thermal coal price drop in more than a decade (Dec '19)
- New coalmines in Queensland don’t help existing communities, they hurt them (Dec '19)
- NSW moves to stop mine projects being blocked because of their overseas emissions (Oct '19)
- NSW government may open two new coal fields for exploration to boost economic growth (Oct '19)
- Australia is third largest exporter of fossil fuels behind Russia and Saudi Arabia (Aug '19)
- QLD Coal Revenue (State Govt Report)
- Dirty Power: Big Coal’s network of influence over the coalition government - video (May '19)
- Why do we subsidise industry?
- 'The forest is everything': indigenous tribes in India battle to save their home from Adani – in pictures (Mar '20)
- Adani executive Lucas Dow talks up bigger coal mine in leaked video at LNP fundraising event (Mar '20)
- Morrison government faces legal challenge over Adani pipeline plan (Mar '20)
- Adani coalmine: minister loses legal challenge on water pipeline assessment (Jun '19)
- Government concedes error on Adani pipeline decision (Jun '19)
- 'Absolute disgrace': Adani pipeline plan won't activate water trigger (Sep '18)
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