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8 Aug 2019
A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows how unprecedented land exploitation, including farming and forestry, is contributing to...
7 Aug 2019
Scientists have cracked a key step in nature's water-splitting recipe, which powers all plant life on Earth and may be harnessed to make a limitless...
7 Aug 2019
On 4 August 2019, a major power blackout hit the greater Jakarta area and West Java, affecting approximately 21 million people. Many were still without power...
1 Aug 2019
I despair at just how long our Australian government can continue to deny the undeniable. It seems the new Morrison government has learned nothing, doesn’t...
29 Jul 2019
Australia now has enough projects committed to meet the national 2020 renewable energy target.
24 Jul 2019
The federal parliament has voted to funnel A$200 million to drought-stricken areas. What exactly this money will be spent on is still under consideration, but...
24 Jul 2019
At a recent Climate Change Institute event ANU academic Neil Gunningham commented that no government in the world has been genuinely honest with its population...
23 Jul 2019
IT IS easy to imagine that climate change isn’t a problem in health care. Individual doctors hold personal opinions on the proposed Adani mine in Queensland or...
16 Jul 2019
Indonesia has set ambitious targets for adopting renewable energy technologies, including solar power. India serves as a useful model for what is possible,...
14 Jul 2019
With the 100 per cent renewable electricity goal in sight, one of the Territory’s new Climate Councillors expects the ACT Government to go ‘hard and fast’ on...
12 Jul 2019
This article by Nerilie Abram, Matthew England and Matt King was originally published by The Conversation. A record start to summer ice melt in Greenland ...
11 Jul 2019
With electric power grabbing most of the attention, it is easy to forget hydrogen as a promising petrol replacement.