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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

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A southern ray in water off the coast of the SA town of Port Victoria, as Karenia levels began to rise.

SA’s algal bloom spreading north towards one of the world’s marine wonders

The annual aggregation of giant cuttlefish in the Spencer Gulf attracts photographers, divers and researchers from across the globe. But a microscopic menace could endanger the phenomenon.

  • Bianca Hall
Commodities such as steel may need carbon tariffs in the future.

‘Hypocritical’: Coalition slams Labor on climate tariffs while seeking Trump reprieve

The government is lobbying the US for an exemption from its new round of “unjustified” tariffs as it considers a similar move to protect local industry.

  • Mike Foley
Donald Trump tells us not to worry, but do we really want to hitch a ride with Elon Musk, the tech lords, and their AI machines.

‘Don’t worry about it’: Welcome to Trump’s voyage of the damned

Don’t worry about a sweltering Earth. Don’t worry about those powerful creeps abusing young women. Definitely don’t worry about unfettered AI, the White House tells us.

  • Maureen Dowd
Sussan Ley

Sussan Ley took this job with ambition and promise. But things soon unravelled

Ley is going to resign from her seat and leave politics following her defeat. But how much of her downfall was her own bad calls as opposition leader, and how much of it was the nightmare she inherited?

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
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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
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Hanson, with One Nation recruit Barnaby Joyce, says her intention is to form government.

The Trumpian policies Pauline Hanson would roll out if One Nation ran Australia

As One Nation and Pauline Hanson threaten to overtake the fractured Coalition as the nation’s leading conservative force, we test if the party’s policies make practical and economic sense.

  • James Hall
Flocks of white-tailed cockatoos take to the air.

‘Cockatoo Club Med’: DIY renos saving a species from extinction

The detailed study of Western Australia’s white-tailed black cockatoos has revealed that repairing natural tree hollows is a way of securing their survival.

  • Victoria Laurie
Clockwise from right: Jessie Bodor, Peter George, Ellen Burbidge,  have moved to Tasmania to reduce their climate change risk.

Interstate refugees: Why more Aussies are moving south

New research has found a sizeable number of those on the move are doing so to avoid dangerous climate change.

  • Nick O'Malley
Coal mining operations in the Bylong Valley.

NSW should end coal expansions to meet net zero targets

A state government agency has declared that NSW cannot meet its climate targets if it keeps approving new coal mine extensions.

  • Nick O'Malley