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A volunteer dabs herbicide onto weeds in Namadgi National Park.

15 Dec 2020

Canberra’s record season of sneezing is coming to end, with one of our leading environmental scientists declaring the run of high pollen days is over … for now.

An aerial photograph of smoke plumes rising from the fire at Fraser Island in December 2020.

14 Dec 2020

Australia’s fire season looms and researchers are looking to move beyond ‘detecting fires with people in towers and binoculars’.

A man walking through the remains of his family home, wiped out by the New Year’s Eve fires.

10 Dec 2020

More frequent devastating bushfire seasons, like the one that tore through Australia last summer, will become a stark part of our reality, experts warn.

An image of a large dam under construction.

9 Dec 2020

It’s not just your storage unit that’s packed to the gills. According to a new study, the mass of all our stuff—buildings, roads, cars, and everything else we...

A photograph of Alan Nichols, an Australian who suffered health problems since the 2019-20 bushfires.

8 Dec 2020

At the height of last summer's bushfires, Alan Nichols vividly remembers racing out of his holiday unit, loaded up with essentials. A fire was rapidly...

A map of the globe showing temperature anomalies - red shows hotter temperatures, blue shows cooler. The majority of the globe is showing as red.

4 Dec 2020

2020 will be one of the three warmest years on record globally, according to a new State of the Global Climate report from the World Meteorological...

A graph showing sea surface and surface air temperature anomalies respectively from 1910 to 2020. The graph shows a large increase in both over the time period.

2 Dec 2020

Spring exited into summer with record temperatures soaring to more than 40° Celsius in much of New South Wales and South Australia over the final days of...

28 Nov 2020

Llewelyn Hughes says the challenge Japan’s zero emissions ambition represents to Australia cannot be underestimated.

Firefighters standing on the side of a road, tackling a bushfire

25 Nov 2020

Few Australians have been untouched by the devastation caused by the 2019-2020 bushfires.Thirty-three people lost their lives as a direct result of the fires,...

A sign reading 'Planet over profit' is held up at a Global Strike 4 Climate rally in Melbourne in September 2019.

23 Nov 2020

Labor says the government is ignoring a clear majority of Australians who - according to a new poll - support stronger action on emissions reduction.

A light green air monitoring station in Canberra, sitting in the middle of a field of dry grass.

22 Nov 2020

The ACT government is considering ways to improve air quality monitoring across the city in the wake of last summer's record-breaking smoke haze, but...

A photograph of Scott Morrison, sitting behind a desk with a plaque reading 'Australia' at the front, raising his hand in a wave and smiling.

20 Nov 2020

Prime minister Scott Morrison has hinted that his government may abandon controversial plans for Australia to rely upon surplus emissions permits to meet its...

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