What does a longer La Nina mean for your spring and summer?

What does a longer La Nina mean for your spring and summer?

Another summer,and La Nina keeps holding on. What does that mean (and what’s an El Nino)?

  • byPeter Hannam andLaura Chung

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Brumbies to be culled under draft plan for Kosciuszko National Park

Brumbies to be culled under draft plan for Kosciuszko National Park

Two-thirds of the Kosciuszko National Park will be kept free of the feral horses if a new management plan for controlling the animals’ numbers is implemented.

  • byPeter Hannam
Glimpses of a low carbon future amid Port Kembla’s coal and steel

Glimpses of a low carbon future amid Port Kembla’s coal and steel

The Illawarra has the workforce,the industrial and academic know-how and the transport and energy links to be a major player in greener manufacturing.

  • byPeter Hannam
Sydney’s new water strategy explores use of recycled sewage - again

Sydney’s new water strategy explores use of recycled sewage - again

Sydneysiders will be urged to consider using purified sewage for drinking water to help diversify supplies as the population grows and rainfall patterns shift under climate change.

  • byPeter Hannam
Sun Cable scales up plans for world’s biggest solar farm with Indonesian help

Sun Cable scales up plans for world’s biggest solar farm with Indonesian help

The energy company says the Powell Creek Solar Precinct planned for the Northern Territory to supply Darwin and Singapore will be 40 per cent bigger than originally announced.

  • byPeter Hannam
NSW sought to beat Basin Plan water limits

NSW sought to beat Basin Plan water limits

The NSW government has sought to increase the amount of water permitted to be extracted from the Murray-Darling Basin,emails reveal.

  • byPeter Hannam
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‘Quick fix’:Tassie devil among species no longer subject to recovery plans

‘Quick fix’:Tassie devil among species no longer subject to recovery plans

Tasmanian devils are among almost 200 species and ecosystems that will no longer have recovery plans but merely conservation advice,according to proposed federal changes.

  • byPeter Hannam
Student claims HSBC’s Great Barrier Reef ad a ‘blatant greenwash’

Student claims HSBC’s Great Barrier Reef ad a ‘blatant greenwash’

The bank is being challenged by a 17-year-old for promoting products supporting the reef,while funding fossil fuel operations including the Adani mine.

  • byPeter Hannam
‘Drawing a line’:Victoria to oppose special payments for coal plants
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‘Drawing a line’:Victoria to oppose special payments for coal plants

Victoria’s energy minister Lily D’Ambrosio says her state will reject electricity market changes that prop up fossil-fuel power stations,and any changes aimed at keeping the lights on must prioritise zero-emissions technologies.

  • byMiki Perkins andPeter Hannam
SES braces for busy storm season complicated by COVID-19 restrictions

SES braces for busy storm season complicated by COVID-19 restrictions

The State Emergency Service is preparing for a heightened risk of floods during the coming storm season with about a third of its metropolitan staff residents in COVID-19 hotspots.

  • byPeter Hannam
‘Walk away’:Bylong coal mine appeal rejected

‘Walk away’:Bylong coal mine appeal rejected

Proponents of a controversial coal mine planned for a rich farming area north-west of Sydney have had their appeal against an earlier rejection dismissed by the courts,raising the prospect the project will be scrapped.

  • byPeter Hannam