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A photograph of Joe Biden delivering a speech outdoors, with both hands gesturing in front of him, and green foliage in the background.

6 Nov 2020

When the US formally left the Paris climate agreement, Joe Biden tweeted that “in exactly 77 days, a Biden Administration will rejoin it”. The US announced its...

A screenshot of Dr Steven Crimp giving a presentation, with the slide 'Climate Change Challenges for Australian Agriculture' as the title.

6 Nov 2020

According to long-term climate forecasts, temperatures in Australia could rise by 4.5 degrees by 2090 and for every degree of warming, Western Australian...

A photograph of Joe Biden delivering a speech, with the 'Biden - Harris' presidential campaign poster in the background.

5 Nov 2020

With the counting of ballots continuing across the United States, former vice president Joe Biden looks to be inching towards the presidency, in a hard-fought...

4 Nov 2020

Imagine if the world was able to release its grip on fossil fuels and satisfy its growing appetite for energy, with a clean fuel source.

30 Oct 2020

Desy Prihardini will use the scholarship to study hydrogen storage in liquid organic carriers.

28 Oct 2020

We will remember 2020 as a year of crisis. COVID-19 hit Australia just as we were beginning to make sense of the horror bushfires and smoke of last summer, a...

27 Oct 2020

Rapidly falling cost of renewable energy generation brings $2/kg goal closer

Nick Dutton, fire tower operator, Rural Fire Service in the Kowen Forest fire tower near Canberra. Nick is wearing a cap and sunglasses, and looking to the right. The sky behind him is cloudy.

25 Oct 2020

For a century, humans high up in fire towers have sounded the alarm. But breakthroughs in technology may offer something more.

Teenagers Brooklyn O'Hearn and Claire Glavin from North Queenslad standing 1.5 metres apart, with their arms crossed, smiling and looking towards the camera. There are small ships docked at a pier behind them.

22 Oct 2020

Two North Queensland teenagers will today present the federal government with new expert ­evidence and “strong” legal grounds to revoke the approval of Adani’s...

A flooded area of lawn on a Pacific Island, with houses in the background, and a child walking through the flooded grass.

22 Oct 2020

Displacement is growing in the Asia-Pacific region, and a new policy paper argues migration policies must be established now.

A photograph of a city in Japan at night, with many bright coloured street signs, and the blur of car headlights on the highway.

22 Oct 2020

Japan, the biggest international buyer of Australian coal and gas exports, is set to accelerate its efforts towards decarbonisation with new prime minister...

A photograph of the side of a house, where the majority of the outer wall is covered in solar panels.

20 Oct 2020

Former PM says Australia risks becoming ‘the complacent country’ and could suffer another recession if it remains tied to fossil fuels.

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