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  • Emergency services spring into action amid severe weather in Tasmania

    Emergency services spring into action amid severe weather in Tasmania
    2024/09/01
    A series of cold fronts have brought damaging and destructive winds to Tasmania. Thousands have lost power and parts of Tasmania's south-east are now under flood warnings, with authorities warning the worst is yet to come.
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    4 分
  • Good Cop, Bad COP29: Azerbaijan's greenwashing ahead of crucial climate summit

    Good Cop, Bad COP29: Azerbaijan's greenwashing ahead of crucial climate summit
    2024/08/31
    More than a year after the arrest of Azeri anti-corruption academic Dr Gubad Ibadoghlu, human rights organisations are concerned about Azerbaijan's human rights record ahead of it's hosting of the annual COP Climate Change summit.
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    11 分
  • Tuvalu and Australia celebrate climate pact - as Pacific leaders support regional policing deal

    Tuvalu and Australia celebrate climate pact - as Pacific leaders support regional policing deal
    2024/08/28
    Anthony Albanese has secured regional support for his Pacific Policing Initiative, which the Australian prime minister says will strengthen collective peace and security. The initiative is widely seen by analysts as a rebuke to China's efforts to expand its own policing and security footprint in the region.
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    4 分
  • Are we about miss this 'once-in-a-decade opportunity' for our subantarctic islands?

    Are we about miss this 'once-in-a-decade opportunity' for our subantarctic islands?
    2024/08/23
    Being touted as a 'once-in-a-decade opportunity', Australia is conducting a ten-year review into the preservation of some our least-known but most pristine islands. Under a federal government proposal, the protected waters around Heard and McDonald - a remote group of subantarctic islands 4,000 kilometres southwest of Western Australia - are set to quadruple in size. The move has been welcomed by marine scientists but they say under the current plan, the areas of highest ecological value won't be adequately protected.
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    4 分
  • Nuclear waste dump debate heating up over AUKUS, Coalition plans

    Nuclear waste dump debate heating up over AUKUS, Coalition plans
    2024/08/16
    Australia’s AUKUS agreement with the US and Uk will pave the way for nuclear submarines – and nuclear waste. But some experts say the government has not learned the lessons of three past attempts to deal with that material.
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    8 分
  • Is time running out for the Great Barrier Reef?

    Is time running out for the Great Barrier Reef?
    2024/08/08
    Last summer, the Great Barrier Reef suffered through in some of the hottest waters in 400 years. The finding, derived from analysis of coral cores, has shocked researchers who have warned human-made climate change is responsible for back-to-back coral bleaching. They fear reefs worldwide could be jeopardised without increased action.
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    4 分
  • Clean energy investors need policy stability, say business leaders

    Clean energy investors need policy stability, say business leaders
    2024/07/16
    As the climate debate escalates in Canberra, a leading foreign investor in Australian renewable energy has called for politicians to stick to the plan. Business leaders from India have flown into Sydney for talks with the energy minister on the sidelines of the nation's clean energy summit.
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    4 分
  • Pacific Island nations urged to unite against climate change

    Pacific Island nations urged to unite against climate change
    2024/07/14
    Yessie Mosby is one of the so-called Torres Strait Eight, a group from the Pacific Islands which lodged a complaint with the UN Human Rights Council. Their complaint - that Australia is not doing enough to protect their people from climate change - was the first ever case of its kind. Mr Mosby - a Zenadh Kes Masig man - has been in Hawaii for the Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture to connect with other countries from across the Pacific who are experiencing the climate crisis on their doorstep.
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    2 分