Environment: Nations ignoring the need for a just transition to zero carbon
Eliminating greenhouse gas emissions is dangerously slow, but doing it in a fair, just and inclusive manner is all but non-existent. Climate change’s many harmful outcomes for women and girls includes more child marriages. Fishing doesn’t have to kill mammals and birds.
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17 May 2025
Water is a vital part of population policy
If ecological sustainability must be the basis for population policy, as argued by Jenny Goldie, then a vital ingredient for sustainability is water – the essence of life.
15 May 2025
From nuclear to nature laws, here’s where Ley stands on four energy and environment flashpoints
Sussan Ley has been elected Liberal leader after defeating rival Angus Taylor in a party room vote on 13 May. Now the hard work of rebuilding the party can begin.
14 May 2025
Bowen confirmed as climate and energy minister, Watt gets environment
Chris Bowen has been confirmed as climate and energy minister in the new Albanese Government, while Murray Watt has been appointed minister for the environment and water as part of a reshuffle announced on Monday.
14 May 2025
The US war on science
Sadly, largely due to the media’s lack of interest in science and the drop in the number of journalists able to cover such a round, one of the most important stories about science — the Trump destruction of science — is largely being neglected.
11 May 2025
Environment: Will Labor now protect our environment? If not now, probably never
The world is getting hotter, seas are rising more quickly, oceans are heating faster and freshwater is getting saltier, but Labor’s first-term environmental performance provides little optimism for its second, even though Australia leads the way with solar energy generation.
9 May 2025
The climate won’t change for the Liberals without more women and fewer oldies
If the Liberals have any sense, they won’t waste too much time blaming their shocking election result on Peter Dutton, Donald Trump, Cyclone Alfred, the party secretariat, an unready shadow ministry or any other “proximate cause”, as economists say. Why not? Because none of these go to the heart of their party’s problem.
8 May 2025
Thirteen things on Labor’s climate and energy must-do list to change the system
The thumping victory for Labor in the weekend’s poll means that it is likely to be in power for at least another six years.
7 May 2025
Australia lays out red carpet for rapid green energy transition. Can Labor seize the moment?
What an opportunity Australia has before it.
4 May 2025
Al Gore on climate and Trump – the whole speech
Readers may have seen mainstream media coverage of former US vice-president Al Gore's speech at San Francisco Climate Week on 21 April. We think it is worth reading in full.
30 April 2025
The election and the social determinants of health
The Social Determinants of Health are the conditions in which we work, live, and play. We, as a society, choose these conditions and/or choose not to change them. They play at least as important a role in health outcomes as access to care.
29 April 2025
Fossil fuels blamed as 84% of world's coral reefs hit by worst bleaching event ever recorded
The magnitude and extent of the heat stress is shocking, said one marine scientist.
29 April 2025
2025 is the crunch year in the scientific contest about accelerated warming
The record-breaking warming years of 2023 (1.5°C) and 2024 (1.6°C) were above expectations and shocked scientists.
