by bpckle | May 29, 2022 | Media
Anti-logging protesters reject state governments’ claims new laws are necessary to protect workers’ safetyGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingGovernments in two Australian states have been accused of undermining democracy by introducing legislation...
by bpckle | May 29, 2022 | Media
Laboratory chief blames Brexit for closure as money for corvid brain power research dries upOne of Britain’s most important, and unusual, centres for studying cognition is facing imminent closure as a result of Brexit. Set up 22 years ago to study the minds of crows,...
by bpckle | May 28, 2022 | Media
With empathy and goodwill Anthony Albanese’s Labor government can end the inane climate warsGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThis observation is more whimsy than science, but indulge me for a moment. Australians don’t change the stripe of their...
by bpckle | May 28, 2022 | Media
Labor won by offering modest environmental policies. It will have to go further in office to deal with the climate emergencyIn his victory speech on election night last Saturday, Labor’s Anthony Albanese promised to turn Australia into a “renewable energy superpower”...
by bpckle | May 27, 2022 | Media
ShutterstockAustralians will bear yet another blow to our cost of living in July when electricity prices will surge up to 18.3%, which amounts to over A$250 per year in some cases. This is partly due to geopolitical tensions driving up the cost of generating...
by bpckle | May 27, 2022 | Media
ShutterstockWhen a new coronavirus emerged from nature in 2019, it changed the world. But COVID-19 won’t be the last disease to jump across from the shrinking wild. Just this weekend, it was announced that Australia, is no longer an onlooker, as Canada, the US and...
by bpckle | May 27, 2022 | Media
For much of the past three decades, Australia has been viewed internationally as a laggard on climate change – and with good reason. Australia was the last of the G20 economies that ratified the Kyoto Protocol and the first to dismantle a national carbon pricing...
by bpckle | May 26, 2022 | Media
Parliamentary committee also recommends cut-off date for sale of diesel and petrol carsGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingA Victorian parliamentary committee has recommended the Andrews government consider a ban on gas connections in new homes to...
by bpckle | May 26, 2022 | Media
Mark Baker/APAustralia’s climate election has been won. Now comes the harder part. It’s now entirely possible we could see a government committed to domestic climate action, speeding up the exit of coal and gas from our grid and electrifying transport –while still...
by bpckle | May 26, 2022 | Media
Artist's impression of an eastern moa in its podocarp forest habitat. Paul Martinson. Te Papa Tongarewa/Museum of NZ, CC BY-NC-NDOne species of iconic moa was almost wiped out during the last ice age, according to recently published research. But a small...
by bpckle | May 26, 2022 | Media
Barnaby Joyce ponders ditching net zero, while Matt Canavan’s claim the climate goal is ‘a failed agenda’ globally dismissed as ‘laughably untrue’Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe Coalition is picking through the entrails, scouring the wreckage...
by bpckle | May 26, 2022 | Media
Nerilie Abram, Author providedThe 2022 federal election will go down in history as Australia’s climate change election. Australians resoundingly voted for ambition on climate action, something which has been missing for a decade under a Coalition government, along...
by bpckle | May 25, 2022 | Media
Julien Vincent’s Market Forces organisation started with a spare laptop and a spare bedroom before raising the ire of the former Coalition government Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe laptop was second-hand, but Julien Vincent had a spare room...
by bpckle | May 25, 2022 | Media
GettyBefore the 2019 federal election, many people expected Australia would vote for faster climate action. That, of course, didn’t happen. But just three years later, the climate election arrived at last. The question is – what changed? In short: Reality hit. Over...
by bpckle | May 25, 2022 | Media
Former Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s shock loss to an independent running on a climate action platform wasn’t a fluke event. “Teal” independents have ousted five of Frydenberg’s colleagues, all harvesting votes from conservative heartland and all calling for more action...
by bpckle | May 25, 2022 | Media
We can replace coal power with renewables and storage, electrify everything, create a renewable export industry and grow clean energy supply chains“Together we can end the climate wars, we can be a renewable energy superpower,” said Australia’s 31st prime minister,...
by bpckle | May 25, 2022 | Media
Scientists hope Albanese government addresses extinction crisis as new research shows 63 vertebrates face annihilation by 2041Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingMore than 40 Australian animals at the highest risk of extinction in the next two decades...
by bpckle | May 24, 2022 | Media
During Saturday’s election, 31.5% of the voters deserted the major parties, with a swag of female teal independents tipping Liberal MPs out of their heartland urban seats. By contrast, the underestimated Greens had a sensational election, surprising many pundits with...
by bpckle | May 24, 2022 | Media
Shutterstock/Tanya NZThe Dutch have long been recognised as leaders in cycling. Denmark is not far behind, with more bikes than cars in its capital Copenhagen. This is the result of many years of investment. Even the UK, with less of a cycling tradition, is investing...
by bpckle | May 24, 2022 | Media
Largest single release of the endangered animals seeks to grow population that had been completely wiped out from mainland AustraliaGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThere are hopes 50 eastern quolls returned to the wilderness in NSW will spark a...
