Global warming
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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Delays hit Australia’s biggest battery, hindering green energy shift
Australia’s most powerful battery will not be fully operational until the end of the year, after the $1 billion project suffered a major equipment fault.
- Nick Toscano
Federal Court dismisses historic ‘greenwashing’ case against Santos
A landmark greenwashing lawsuit has been dismissed as a court rules Santos had grounds to describe natural gas as “clean energy″.
- Nick Toscano
‘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
- Opinion
- Opinion
Don’t be gaslit on climate. There’s no going back on this energy transition
The world has an enormous task to avoid the worst effects of climate change, and the risks remain serious. The energy transition is well under way, however, and politicians need to be honest about that.
- Rod Sims and Rebecca Burdon
Australia weighs carbon tariffs to shield local industry from cheap imports
A fresh front in the climate wars has opened over the impact that ambitious climate goals are having on heavy industries.
- Nick Toscano and Mike Foley
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
- Updated
- Murray-Darling Basin
‘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
The pitch to bring Sydney’s hidden waterways to the surface
Colonial maps show a city with vast waterways now lost beneath roads and buildings, but “daylighting” hidden waterways in the suburbs could help cool Sydney down as the climate changes.
- Aidan Elwig Pollock
- Exclusive
- Renewables
For the first time, renewable energy is supplying most of our power
Renewables became the dominant energy supply for an entire quarter in the final three months of last year, helping the grid skate through the early days of a scorching summer.
- Mike Foley and Nick Toscano