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The rhetoric of ‘smart cities’ is dominated by the economic, with little reference to the natural world and its plight. Truly smart and resilient cities need to be more in tune with the planet.
Despite its insidious influence on the climate and our health, coal has a lesser-known positive side to its otherwise dark soul. It has provided us with some stunning fossils.
Wild seas have left beaches eroded and houses close to collapse.
Storms like those that lashed Australia’s east coast flush pollution out to sea.
A total of 1,859 people have died in floods in Australia in the past 115 years.
The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising faster than at any point in the past 55 million years.
Eastern Australia’s massive storms will likely become rarer in a warmer world, but probably more intense.
Refunds for drink bottles and cans get litter out of the environment – but industry remains opposed.
The Banksia woodlands of the Swan Coastal Plain are home to thousands of species, many unique. But they are gradually being swallowed by Perth, one of the world’s most sprawling cities.
Was Trade Minister Steven Ciobo right to say on Q&A that global demand for coal is still going through the roof?
Feeding Melbourne generates over 900,000 tonnes of edible food waste every year, enough to feed more than 2 million people.
Why are our cities full of crows, ravens and rainbow lorikeets, while other species decline? The answer comes down to street smarts, adaptability, and sometimes plain bullying.
Springtails are found in every habitat except the oceans.
The easiest way to keep people safe around crocodiles is to make sure they understand the risks.
Autumn 2016 was Australia’s hottest, beating the previous record set in 2005.
Harambe’s death shows that if gorillas are going to live in zoos, we need more barriers between them and us – for both of our sakes.
The recent severe bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef has also affected anemones, which provide homes for clownfish.
An estimated one-third of corals have now died in the parts of the Great Barrier Reef hit hardest by bleaching, meaning recovery could take years or even decades.
Ten years have passed since Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth hit the US box office. Has the film been successful in increasing awareness and action on climate change?
Banks have a lot of money tied up in houses. That means they have a lot to lose from fires, floods and other climate impacts.
The city of Phalodi has set a temperature record for India, hitting 51°C. Until now, India’s smog problem has curbed extreme temperatures. But that could be about to change.
All mention of Australia has been removed from an international report on climate change on the grounds that it would damage tourism. Here’s the evidence.
La Trobe University is the first Australian university to commit to divesting fully from fossil fuels, but will it have any impact?
Across the world, an area bigger than Russia is officially classed as “degraded land”. We’ll never restore its wildlife to what it was – but there are pragmatic steps we can take to improve things.