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We can’t drought-proof Australia, and trying is a fool’s errand
The push to ‘drought-proof’ Australia is dangerous nonsense.
AAP Image/Mick Tsikas
There is a phrase in the novel East of Eden that springs to mind every time politicians speak of “drought-proofing” Australia:
And it never failed that...
Feeling flight shame? Try quitting air travel and catch a sail boat
Regina Maris, the ship activists will sail to a climate
conference in Chile. Sail to the COP
If you’ve caught a long haul flight recently, you generated more carbon emissions than a person living in some...
Misogyny, male rage and the words men use to describe Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg departs after speaking at the youth
climate strike in Battery Park, New York. Peter Foley/EPA
Detractors have dismissed Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg - a Nobel Prize nominee - as mentally ill, hysterical and...
‘We will never forgive you’: youth is not wasted on the young who fight...
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg joins other children from
across the world to present an official human rights complaint on the climate crisis.
Michael Nagle/EPA
Last week’s United Nations climate summit may go down in history...
We want to learn about climate change from weather presenters, not politicians
Melbourne’s ABC weather presenter Paul Higgins discussing a trend
towards warmer April days. ABC/MCCCRH
One of the great paradoxes of climate change communication in Australia is that politicians command the most attention on the issue,...
Ignoring young people’s climate change fears is a recipe for anxiety
School students took to the streets in Melbourne and other
Australian cities back in March as part of a global rally on climate change.
Now they've done it again. AAP Image/Ellen Smith
This story...
‘This situation brings me to despair’: two reef scientists share their climate grief
A researcher completing bleaching surveys in the southern
Great Barrier Reef after a major bleaching event.
ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR CORAL REEF STUDIES
Few feel the pain of the Great Barrier Reef’s decline more acutely than...
The gloves are off: ‘predatory’ climate deniers are a threat to our children
A child jumps from a rock outcrop into a lagoon in the
low-lying Pacific island of Tuvalu. AAP/Mick Tsikas
In this age of rapidly melting glaciers, terrifying megafires and ever more puissant hurricanes, of acidifying and rising oceans, it is hard to believe...
Australia to attend climate summit empty-handed despite UN pleas to ‘come with a plan’
The Port Kembla industrial area in NSW. Industry emissions can
be cut by improving efficiency, shifting to electricity and closing old plants.
Dean Lewins/AAP
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration...
‘Climigration’: when communities must move because of climate change
Flood damage in Bundaberg, Queensland, in 2013.
Most communities are at some risk from extreme events, but repeated disasters
raise the question of relocation. srv007/Flickr,
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global...
