Establishing the age of K'gari (Fraser Island) confirms it emerged before the reef, despite the climate being suitable for coral growth long before then.
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Green spaces have the potential to reduce heat and improve health, especially in urban areas.
From more accurate climate modelling to the prospect of truly creative computers, the brain’s use of noise has a lot to teach us.
Victoria’s new renewable plan is welcome - but it relies on building unsexy and challenging new transmission lines across the state.
Scientists have uncovered the long-term history of our receding moon. And it’s not from studying the moon itself, but from reading signals in ancient layers of rock on Earth.
Eating insects can carry a much lower environmental footprint than conventional meat. Should western cultures be incorporating more of them into their diets?
Fossil fuel companies are winning the battle on how we talk about natural gas expansion by referring to it as a “bridge fuel” or an essential bridge to the net-zero energy system of the future.
Aviation has long been shamed for its carbon footprint. But cutting non-CO2 emissions may hold the key to rapid change.
Efforts to control the fossil fuel industry lobbying of the federal government must step up or we could face greater inequality and lessened democracy.
While official data is yet to be released, this year’s Mediterranean marine heatwave will likely have devastating ecological consequences.
Improving the rail link between Australia’s two biggest cities will have many benefits, not least in meeting our carbon-reduction goals
After the announcement of President Biden’s heat initiative, The Conversation revisits stories on high summer temperatures and human health.
Word from The Hill: Is Morrison’s absence from parliament disrespectful to his voters?
Michelle Grattan discusses politics with politics + society editor, Amanda Dunn
Four of Labor’s reform pledges are linked to the urgent issue of democratic reform
Managed retreat is already common in flood-prone areas, but what about in neighborhoods at high risk from wildfires? Here are four ways communities can pull back for safety.
Popular belief suggests the highest tides in the St. Lawrence River are reached around the equinoxes. In truth, they arrive close to the solstices.
As crops fail in the rising heat, men are leaving many rural areas for migrant work in cities. Women are left to tend to the farming in increasingly dangerous conditions.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton and Nationals leader David Littleproud announce the Coalition’s shadow ministry
Labor knew it would inherent a cost-of-living problem – it campaigned on it. But it didn’t expect the dramatic crisis in gas prices Australia is suddenly facing
The Stockholm Conference in June 1972 launched five decades of international negotiations on everything from biodiversity to climate change.
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