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222 scientists say cascading crises are the biggest threat to the well-being of future...
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The bushfires raging across Australia this summer have sharpened the focus on how climate change affects human health. This season bushfires have already claimed more than 30 human lives, and many people have grappled...
Electric car sales tripled last year. Here’s what we can do to keep them...
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A total of 6718 electric vehicles were sold in Australia in 2019. That’s three times as many as in 2018, but it’s still small beer. More than a million fossil-fueled light vehicles (including SUVs and...
No food, no fuel, no phones: bushfires showed we’re only ever one step from...
Bushfires reveal a story we need to hear.
Picture: Australian Navy
This summer’s bushfires were not just devastating events in themselves. More broadly, they highlighted the immense vulnerability of the systems which make our contemporary...
Disaster hits small business in many ways. We need a national strategy to help...
The main street of Cobargo, NSW, Wednesday, January 1, 2020.
Sean Davey/AAP
When the central business district of Lismore was flooded in 2017, every small business owner in the northern New South Wales town had a...
We have the vaccine for climate disinformation – let’s use it
Exposing people to likely disinformation campaigns about bushfire
causes will help inoculate them. JASON O'BRIEN/AAP
Australia’s recent bushfire crisis will be remembered for many things – not least, the tragic loss of life, property and landscape....
As cities grow, the Internet of Things can help us get on top of...
Melbourne is one Australian city that’s moving to improve its
waste management and reduce its reliance on trucks to collect
waste. TK Kurikawa/Shutterstock
Total global waste is expected to double from nearly 2 billion tonnes...
Humans are good at thinking their way out of problems – but climate change...
In some areas of human activity such as farming, we are exhausting
our capacity to adapt to climate change. Daniel Mariuz/AAP
There is growing evidence that Earth’s systems are heading towards climate “tipping points” beyond which change becomes...
Out of control, contained, safe? Here’s what each bushfire status actually means
We’re used to images of firefighters with hoses, but more of
the firefighting effort goes to clearing vegetation than spraying
with water. Dean Lewins/AAP
In this record-breaking bushfire season, notifications from emergency managers have become a...
Scientists hate to say ‘I told you so’. But Australia, you were warned
Without a radical change of course on climate change, Australians
Australians will struggle to survive on this continent, let
alone thrive. AAP/Dave Hunt
Those who say “I told you so” are rarely welcomed, yet I...
Conservation scientists are grieving after the bushfires – but we must not give up
Glossy black cockatoo populations on Kangaroo Island have been
decimated. But a few precious survivors remain. Flickr
That a billion animals may die as a result of this summer’s fires has horrified the world. For many conservation...
