The coronavirus has torpedoed the world economy,with travel both a vector for – and a victim of – an historic event that appears to have no end in sight.
I avoid fast fashion – what I call “clothes without heart” – at all costs. Eighty-five percent of textiles end up in landfill every year,enough to fill Sydney Harbour. It’s a big issue.
Melting ice shelves,surging visitor numbers and geopolitical wrangling made the past year a turbulent one for Antarctica – which is also dealing with what some are calling “climate strange”.
Australia's former foreign affairs minister writes that climate change has not paused for coronavirus;we will pretend it has at our peril.
Temperatures soared over much of Antarctica this past summer,prompting researchers to declare the first heatwave ever recorded at Australia's Casey station.
"It is akin to living on the moon except you can get back quicker from the moon."
Everything you should know about travelling to the great ice continent,from what to pack to what to do once you get there.
The worldwide death toll topped 3000 and the number of those infected rose to about 89,000 in 70 countries on every continent but Antarctica.
During a recent warm stretch,snow cover markedly declined as melt ponds formed on Eagle Island,Antarctica,and nearby ice shelves.
The year has started with the hottest January in the 141 years that global records have been kept,and it's the biggest record-breaking margin achieved without help from a warming El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean.
An expedition dodged icebergs and survived hurricanes to establish Australia's first permanent Antarctic base at Mawson,on the fringe of the frozen continent.