Winter gas threat grows in Victoria,NSW as offshore fields dry up

Winter gas threat grows in Victoria,NSW as offshore fields dry up

Gas users are in danger of winter shortfalls sooner than originally feared as ExxonMobil and Woodside’s Bass Strait production fields dry up.

  • byNick Toscano andMike Foley

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Extreme weather is wreaking havoc on Australian music festivals. Can they survive?

Extreme weather is wreaking havoc on Australian music festivals. Can they survive?

The cancellation of Victoria’s Pitch festival amid extreme heat and the death of a patron has restarted urgent conversations about Australia’s beloved festivals.

  • byNell Geraets
AGL boss says no to Dutton’s nuclear vision for coal power sites

AGL boss says no to Dutton’s nuclear vision for coal power sites

Australia’s biggest coal-fired power plant operator has ruled out taking part in the Coalition’s plan to build nuclear generators at its sites.

  • byNick Toscano andMike Foley
The competing agendas that threaten to derail Australia’s renewable rollout

The competing agendas that threaten to derail Australia’s renewable rollout

Chris Bowen’s goal of meeting Australia’s climate targets by 2030 collides with Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s role protecting the ecosystem from large developments.

  • byMike Foley andNick Toscano
The photos that show nothing so far has saved the Great Barrier Reef

The photos that show nothing so far has saved the Great Barrier Reef

The Albanese government faces fresh questions over its climate action after the Great Barrier Reef was hit by its fifth mass bleaching event since 2016.

  • byMike Foley
Deep discounting may be needed to drive EV sales where Labor needs them

Deep discounting may be needed to drive EV sales where Labor needs them

The average price of an electric vehicle may have to be $31,000 below that of an equivalent petrol passenger car to achieve the government’s take-up targets,a new analysis suggests.

  • byDavid Crowe
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Stoush over caps on car emissions heats up

Stoush over caps on car emissions heats up

Some NSW and Victorian motorists could save $1800 a year in fuel costs under a plan to cap motor vehicle pollution,Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen said citing new analysis.

  • byLisa Visentin
Like chasing Tasmanian tigers:What’s behind the Coalition’s nuclear push

Like chasing Tasmanian tigers:What’s behind the Coalition’s nuclear push

Australia’s climate wars are cranking back up to full power,as Opposition Leader Peter Dutton mounts a challenge to Labor’s ambitious renewable energy agenda.

  • byMike Foley
Australia’s LNG shipments slump for the first time in years

Australia’s LNG shipments slump for the first time in years

An eight-year growth streak for LNG exporters that made Australia one of the world’s biggest shippers of the fossil fuel has come to an end.

  • byNick Toscano
Air pollution kills 1 million a year – hundreds of whom are Australians
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Air pollution kills 1 million a year – hundreds of whom are Australians

Across Australia and New Zealand,an average 614 people lost their lives every year between 2000-2019 after being exposed to fine-particle air pollution.

  • byBianca Hall
I’ll be dead before the worst of it,but I’m fearful for those who won’t

I’ll be dead before the worst of it,but I’m fearful for those who won’t

The most obvious sign of the climate crisis is the heatwaves across the globe in 2023. Some 77 nations recorded their highest average annual temperature in half a century.

  • byRoss Gittins