‘I believe in climate change’: How Barilaro’s new bromance with Kean changed Nationals policy
Deputy Premier and Nationals leader John Barilaro says he is open to ending logging in state forests as part of improved relations he has struck with Energy and Environment Minister Matt Kean.
Black Summer bushfires made worse by climate change, risk to ‘rapidly intensify’
South-eastern Australia should expect more extreme hot and dry conditions and fire-induced weather without significant efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, researchers say.
Record spring heat a one-in-500,000 chance without climate change
Climate change added as much as 1.7 degrees to Australia’s record hot spring, dwarfing the role of natural variability, new analysis shows.
Exit from fossil fuels quickens after California, China signal shift
California’s plan to ban new sales of fossil-fuel cars and China’s first net-zero target show that climate action is beginning to accelerate, analysts say.
Warragamba wall-raising costs to ‘blow out’ after height level lifted
The Berejiklian government says forecast impacts of climate change have forced it to amend its plan to raise Warragamba Dam, lifting the project’s height by 17 metres rather than 14.
