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Sportswashing: how mining and energy companies sponsor your favourite sports to help clean up their image

AAP Image/Darren EnglandFossil fuel and carbon-intensive industries have an image problem. As awareness of their environmental impact grows, energy and mining companies in particular...

This WA town just topped 50℃ – a dangerous temperature many Australians will have to get used to

Image: ShutterstockWhile Australians are used to summer heat, most of us only have to endure the occasional day over 40℃.On January 13th, the temperature...

Surprisingly few animals die in wildfires – and that means we can help more in the aftermath

Getty ImagesThe estimate that one billion animals were killed by Australia’s 2019-20 Black Summer fires drew international attention to the fate of wildlife during fire.This estimate...

Cabinet papers 2001: how ‘securitisation’ became a mindset to dominate Australian politics for a generation

Image: David Foote/National Archives of Australia2001 was the final year of the Howard government’s second term in office.It began with the government on the...

2021 – Adieu: Welcome now to 2022

It would be difficult to describe the year of 2021 as anything but difficult, challenging and pretty bloody awful!Mind you, it is easily arguable...

How much meat do we eat? New figures show 6 countries have hit their peak

  Image: ShutterstockEating meat comes with an enormous environmental footprint, with food systems responsible for an estimated 34% of global emissions. And yet, in most countries, meat...

Labor’s 2030 climate target betters the Morrison government, but Australia must go much further, much faster

  Image: Lucas Coch/AAPThe Labor opposition has pledged to reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by 43% this decade based on 2005 levels, claiming the...

Australia’s biggest fossil fuel investment for a decade is in the works – and its greenhouse gas emissions will be horrifying

  Image: ShutterstockThe controversial Scarborough gas project off Western Australia will cause a substantial rise in greenhouse gas emissions at a time when the...

More than 200 Australian birds are now threatened with extinction – and climate change is the biggest danger

  Image: ShutterstockUp to 216 Australian birds are now threatened – compared with 195 a decade ago – and climate change is now the...

View from The Hill: Scott Morrison warns disorderly troops against putting ‘a smile on Labor’s face’

  Image: Lukas Coch/AAPFor a leader with something of a fetish about having things under control, Scott Morrison is in a painful place. Just...
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