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A visualisation of the cooler waters in the Pacific which are a distinctive element of a La Nina.

30 Sep 2020

It's official. For the first time in a decade a La Nina event has been declared by the Bureau of Meteorology.

A yellow tractor shovels coal in an open cut mine.

30 Sep 2020

Santos's $3.6 billion Narrabri coal seam gas project in NSW has been approved by the state's Independent Planning Commission (IPC), and the...

A photograph of Chengde Iron and Steel Co, 200 kilometres north-east of Beijing, in September.

30 Sep 2020

Australia's former top climate diplomat has warned China's net-zero emissions target will leave Australia behind, threatening future trade deals and...

Participants in Vanuatu Artists Fellowship Arts Development Workshop October 2019 Fondation Suzanne Gallery Port Vila.

30 Sep 2020

This year, the world has faced the life-changing calamity of COVID. Vanuatu, an island nation east of Australia has been COVID-free. But not problem-free: its...

A photograph of the Sydney Opera House in the background, and the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the foreground, on a misty and rainy day.

29 Sep 2020

Australia’s weather bureau expects a wetter than usual end to the year across the country’s north and east, it said on Tuesday, benefiting grain growers after...

A photograph of the front cover of the Coalition's Low Emissions Technology Statement, reading 'Technology Investment Roadmap - First Low Emissions Technology Statement - 2020'.

27 Sep 2020

From clean hydrogen, energy storage and low-carbon materials to carbon capture and storage, and soil carbon

President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping, in front of an American flag and Chinese flag.

26 Sep 2020

With a single shock announcement at the United Nations this week, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has brought the end of the fossil fuel era into view and left...

25 Sep 2020

Prof Ken Baldwin discusses the Technology Investment Roadmap on the Democracy Sausage podcast.

A flock of sheep grazing in a green pasture with over a dozen wind turbines on the horizon in the background

25 Sep 2020

Engaging with climate and energy policy in Australia can be bad for your neck. Either your head is in your hands as the latest political idiocy unfolds, or you...

A man standing next to a motorbike, looking at a dried out river bed.

25 Sep 2020

The extreme, recent drought has devastated many communities around the Murray-Darling Basin, but the processes driving drought are still not well understood.

Three images cropped together - featuring Donald Trump, Scott Morrison, and Xi Jinping

24 Sep 2020

Australia and the United States are among the world's largest polluting countries that have not committed to reaching net-zero emissions.

A close-up picture of Energy Minister Angus Taylor.

23 Sep 2020

Analysts are torn over whether the federal government's technology roadmap can effectively drive down emissions.

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