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Books & Arts
Why the rush?
Sarah Barns
21 January 2023
A new book about urban mobility invites us to think differently about our streets: who do they belong to, what are they for, who gets to decide?
Correspondents
Agreement by ordeal
Michael Jacobs
22 November 2022
Nearly forty hours behind schedule, a final climate compromise was reached in Sharm el-Sheikh. But important action was going on elsewhere too
Books & Arts
Ecology of extremes
Tom Griffiths
15 November 2022
Steve Morton’s
Australian Deserts
— winner of the 2022 Whitley Medal for an outstanding publication on Australasian wildlife — highlights the rich diversity of…
Books & Arts
Smite all humbug
Morag Fraser
10 November 2022
Australian historian Alison Bashford illuminates the Huxleys’ rich intellectual ecosystem
Correspondents
What exactly is the point of COP27?
Michael Jacobs
4 November 2022
The latest UN climate conference matters, though not for quite the reason you might expect
From the archive
Flowers for Evelyn
Kim Mahood
4 November 2022
In this extract from
Wandering with Intent
, winner of this year’s
Age
Non-fiction Book of the Year award,
Kim Mahood
heads northwest on the Tanami Road
Correspondents
“System change, not climate change!”
Michael Jacobs
9 November 2021
There is a paradox at the heart of climate activists’ demands for the overthrow of capitalism
Books & Arts
Why we need a Great Forest National Park
Tom Griffiths
30 October 2021
This precious ecosystem yields more of its secrets to forest scientist David Lindenmayer
From the archive
Organised irresponsibility
Ryan Cropp
17 September 2021
In a compelling first draft of history, historian Adam Tooze captures an unstable, interconnected world
Books & Arts
Muddying the waters
Margaret Simons
31 August 2021
There’s plenty wrong with how the Murray–Darling is being managed, but Wall Street isn’t the culprit to target
Essays & Reportage
The beauty and the terror
Tom Griffiths
6 August 2021
Mandy Martin, Australian artist
Books & Arts
Sounds of silence
Andrew Ford
15 March 2021
Music
| As the noise returns to our lives, sounds rarely heard are disappearing again
Essays & Reportage
Weekend in Gondwana
Jo Chandler
17 December 2020
On Tasmania’s Central Plateau, a group of scientists prepares for a hotter future
International
New Caledonia’s triple opportunity
Nic Maclellan
10 December 2020
After weeks of protests, the Goro nickel smelter is up for grabs. Independence groups see the outcome as vital for the French dependency’s future
Books & Arts
Yes, we can
Jane Goodall
18 August 2020
Television
| The
Chaser
’s Craig Reucassel finds hope in the face of an eye-watering planetary deficit
Essays & Reportage
Summer’s legacy
Jennifer Doggett
25 June 2020
As research on the health impact of the fire season continues, the lessons are becoming clearer
Essays & Reportage
Another ferocious summer
Alessandro Antonello
4 March 2020
As the season’s last scientific resupply journeys are made to Antarctica, a visitor observes the deepening impact of climate change
Summer season
Savage Summer
Tom Griffiths
8 January 2020
The Australian bushfire has its own fine-grained local languages
Essays & Reportage
Inflammatory exchanges
Jane Goodall
7 January 2020
Was the climate debate pushed off course by a misconceived strategy of persuasion?
Essays & Reportage
Professor of everything
Tom Griffiths
3 December 2019
George Seddon helped his readers see Australia from the inside
National Affairs
Send in the tanks
Peter Spearritt
29 November 2019
What’s the best way to make households more conscious of their water consumption?
National Affairs
If not now, when?
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
13 November 2019
Diary of a Climate Scientist
| Bushfires and climate change are undoubtedly linked, so it’s time to get serious
Books & Arts
Uneasy being Green
Shaun Crowe
1 November 2019
Can the Greens reconcile internal pressures, parliamentary influence and electoral appeal?
Books & Arts
The lost world of the mayaroo
Nancy Cushing
21 October 2019
Books
| By recovering the forgotten history of the long-haired rat, Tim Bonyhady has produced a book for our times
National Affairs
Is Adani still playing for time?
John Quiggin
6 September 2019
Native title is the latest casualty of the company’s coalmining plans. But will the project really proceed?
Essays & Reportage
Rolling thunder
Ben Stubbs
4 August 2019
Extract
| Maralinga combines the devastation of atomic testing and the green shoots of the future
Essays & Reportage
The radical legacy of Apollo
Tom Griffiths
21 July 2019
They went to the moon but discovered the Earth
Essays & Reportage
Fighting for the bight
Seumas Spark
25 May 2019
A Norwegian company says it can drill safely in the Great Australian Bight. Scientists disagree.
Correspondents
“Our house is burning”
David Hayes
24 May 2019
A young prophet of apocalypse invigorates Europe’s climate debate
National Affairs
Why has the Darling dried up?
David Lewis & John Langford
8 May 2019
“Watergate” is the tip of a much bigger scandal in the Murray–Darling’s northern basin
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