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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.

A photograph of a hill covered in solar panels, with a wind turbine on top.

19 Oct 2020

Our special report examines the role of renewables, nuclear power and carbon capture in reaching this ambitious goal.

An underwater photograph of a vibrant section of coral reef, teaming with light-blue coloured fish.

16 Oct 2020

News that half the corals in the Great Barrier Reef have been lost in the past two decades is alarming enough, but experts say alarm at findings of dramatic...

A close-up image of Secretary of Home Affairs Department Mike Pezzullo

14 Oct 2020

Home Affairs Secretary Mike Pezzullo said Australia's national security faces threats from the natural world, not just armed attacks.

An image looking over Canberra at night time on 31 Jan 2020, with the hills in the background lit up orange with the Orroral Valley fire burning.

14 Oct 2020

Social identity, not scientific evidence, drives many people’s attitudes on climate change.

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