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Electrification and EV advocate Sarah Aubrey with her authorised cable cover.

How to get mass adoption of EVs in city areas? It’s not just about public chargers

As inner-city residents in Sydney and Melbourne turn to DIY options to charge electric vehicles on the street, more councils are offering formal trials to suspend cables in the air or lay them safely across the street.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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Electric Vehicle sales have delivered a significant turnaround in the nation’s progress towards its climate targets.

The controversial tax break driving down carbon emissions for the first time since COVID

The rising popularity of EVs has reversed a stubborn trend in the nation’s pollution.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
The future of Woodside Energy’s operations in Karratha has been assured.

Released emails reveal heavy political lobbying as massive gas project extended

Woodside asked the government to ensure its media messaging “aligned” with the gas giant’s, as negotiations over its North West Shelf project continued.

  • Bianca Hall
Former NSW Fire and Rescue commissioner Greg Mullins.

‘Lives at risk’: former emergency service leaders blast government over development ‘lunacy’ in Sydney’s west

“Developers’ profits are trumping community safety” over plans to develop in Hawkesbury-Nepean valley.

  • Max Maddison
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‘Ball bearings in the snow’: The role of climate change in deadly avalanches

More than a dozen people have died in avalanches on two different continents this week alone. What causes the deadly snow slides, and is climate change making it worse?

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Decomposing sea sponges at the Ardrossan Big Jetty are among the casualties of the algal bloom off South Australia’s coast.

‘The water was completely dead’: Inside the grim race with a microscopic enemy

‘Seen the worst I can see’: On this remote stretch of beach, a new ground zero has emerged.

  • Bianca Hall
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Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood years of second best climate policy continues to weigh on the economy and greenhouse gas reduction.

Australians bearing the brunt of ‘second-best’ climate plans

One of the nation’s leading economists says Australians are paying the price for a political class that is “far from brave” when it comes to climate policy.

  • Shane Wright
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In the Trump era of America first, scientists fear for the future of Antarctica

There are growing concerns the treaty that has protected the last great wilderness for nearly 70 years may not hold as the old rules-based world order disintegrates along with the sea ice.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Dead bony bream washed up along the shores of Lake Menindee this week.

‘Smells pretty bad’: 100,000 dead fish litter lakeshore near Menindee homes

Hundreds of thousands of native fish have died in Lake Menindee amid a heatwave and blue-green algae bloom.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Tourists queue for water outside the Colosseum in Rome during a heatwave last summer.

I used to have a great travel tip for Europe. It doesn’t work any more

I used to offer a key piece of advice on how to avoid the tourist crowds and have a more pleasant time. The problem now is that everyone’s doing it.

  • Ben Groundwater