Tag: climate
Grattan on Saturday: Albanese government mugged by gas crisis as it faces challenge of managing expectations
Tony Burke reads a poem aloud every day and has a piano lesson once a week.
The new minister for employment and workplace relations, as...
This WA town just topped 50℃ – a dangerous temperature many Australians will have to get used to
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While Australians are used to summer heat, most of us only have to endure the occasional day over 40℃.
On January 13th, the temperature...
Back so soon, La Niña? Here’s why we’re copping two soggy summers in a row
Image: Dan Himbrechts/AAP
Last month was Australia’s wettest November on record, and summer in Queensland and parts of New South Wales is also expected to be soggy...
This is the most sobering report card yet on climate change and Earth’s future. Here’s what you need to know
Picture: AP Photo/Noah Berger
Australia is experiencing widespread, rapid climate change not seen for thousands of years and may warm by 4℃ or more...
The North American heatwave shows we need to know how climate change will change our weather
Image: NASA
Eight days ago, it rained over the western Pacific Ocean near Japan. There was nothing especially remarkable about this rain event, yet...
Australia’s UN report card: making progress, could do better on inequality and climate
A sign of a drier, hotter planet? Australia is nowhere
near meeting even the modest target of a 26% emissions
reduction by 2030. David...