Labor steps on the gas to fuel its climate targets

Labor steps on the gas to fuel its climate targets

The federal government is backing new gas fields as essential in the move to renewables.

  • byDavid Crowe andMike Foley

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El Niño blamed for floods that killed scores,left 150,000 homeless in Brazil

El Niño blamed for floods that killed scores,left 150,000 homeless in Brazil

On the outskirts of Eldorado do Sul,people are sleeping on the roadside and going hungry.

  • byAmanda Perobelli andLeonardo Benansatto
Demand for steak fuelling deforestation and extinction in NSW

Demand for steak fuelling deforestation and extinction in NSW

The NSW biodiversity outlook suggests the state is set lose nearly a quarter of all known plant and animal species in the next 100 years,and habitat loss from land clearing especially in the agricultural industry is the biggest cause.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf resigns amid fallout over climate policy

Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf resigns amid fallout over climate policy

Humza Yousa,facing a no-confidence vote,resigned as leader of the long-dominant Scottish National Party that has been weakened by a campaign finance scandal and divisions over transgender rights.

Dangerous heat kills dozens,closes schools,prompts four-day workweek

Dangerous heat kills dozens,closes schools,prompts four-day workweek

Several countries in South-East Asia are grappling with a heatwave that has turned into tragedy in Thailand and is forcing power plant closures elsewhere.

  • byNeil Jerome Morales
How Albanese can make Australia’s future the smart way

How Albanese can make Australia’s future the smart way

As the world stops buying our fossil fuels in coming decades,Australia must hunt around in our natural endowment to find a new comparative advantage.

  • byRoss Gittins
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Legal fight to save their island homes from the rising sea

Legal fight to save their island homes from the rising sea

Singer Christine Anu has thrown her support behind a legal bid to save her ancestral island home in the Torres Strait from the effects of climate change.

  • byBianca Hall
Payments for coal plants and urgent reform needed for renewables switch

Payments for coal plants and urgent reform needed for renewables switch

Energy policy is a mess and governments will have little option but to prop up ageing coal plants until more clean energy comes online,the Grattan Institute warns.

  • byMike Foley andNick Toscano
Nationals’ nuclear climate policy puts Australia’s Paris deal in doubt

Nationals’ nuclear climate policy puts Australia’s Paris deal in doubt

Nationals leader David Littleproud has conceded turning to nuclear power would mean Australia misses its 2030 emissions reduction target.

  • byJames Massola andMike Foley
We all lose under Queensland’s winner-takes-all political games
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We all lose under Queensland’s winner-takes-all political games

Practice makes perfect,as the saying goes. And there are few less-practised areas in Queensland politics than collaboration,as the youth justice blow-up shows.

  • byMatt Dennien
‘Upfront,credible and honest’:Woodside boss spruiks climate plan ahead of crucial AGM
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‘Upfront,credible and honest’:Woodside boss spruiks climate plan ahead of crucial AGM

Meg O’Neill says the energy major is working to reduce its emissions but warns it’s not going to be easy or cheap.

  • byPeter Milne