La Nina.

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)?

  • Peter Hannam andLaura Chung

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Brumbies near Kiandra off the Snowy Mountain highway,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.

  • Peter Hannam
Steel employees at the BlueScope steel mill near Wollongong.

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.

  • Peter Hannam
Cataract Dam spillway:the reservoir near Wollongong is the lowest among the Greater Sydney network at just 27 per cent full.

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.

  • Peter Hannam
5B solar panels

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.

  • Peter Hannam
Ian Cole from Barwon-Darling at a dam for a cotton farm near Bourke that filled up after good rains last year.

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.

  • Peter Hannam
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The Tasmanian devil is among almost 200 plant and animal species or endangered ecological communities that will no longer have recovery plans but only conservation advices to support their survival.

‘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.

  • Peter Hannam
Ava Shearer,a Cairns-based student,has lodged a complaint against global banking giant HSBC for what she claims is “greenwashing” in its ads about the Great Barrier Reef.

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.

  • Peter Hannam
 Lily D’Ambrosio,Victoria’s Minister for Energy,Environment&Climate,has made it clear that her state won’t support any redesign of the energy market that supports an extension of the life of coal or gas-fired power stations.

‘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.

  • Miki Perkins andPeter Hannam
State Emergency Services assisting people affected by large floods near Sydney in March 2021.

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.

  • Peter Hannam