International
10 November 2024
As the UN conference opens in Baku, Azerbaijan, what difference will Donald Trump’s election make?
International
21 June 2024
Economic growth and the environment needn’t be in conflict — as the figures are already showing
National affairs
6 June 2024
Opponents of renewable energy are combining Nimbyism and ideology to oppose projects that would significantly benefit rural communities
Books & arts
4 June 2024
From a “pinch of guilt” emerges a fine-grained biography of a bohemian figure during a vital period of environmental activism
International
2 February 2024
What do governments led by Rishi Sunak, Vladimir Putin, Emmanuel Macron and Kim Jong-un have in common?
International
14 December 2023
The COP28 agreement has the potential to fuel a virtuous circle of policy, innovation and scale
International
9 December 2023
At COP28 our correspondent probes a PR blitz for signs of genuine progress
Essays & reportage
6 December 2023
Australia’s fatal firestorms have a distinctive and mainly Victorian lineage, but the 2019–20 season was frighteningly new
International
1 December 2023
UAE deal-maker Ahmed Al Jaber has kicked off this year’s climate talks with a historic coup
Essays & reportage
1 December 2023
Where did all that water go?
Essays & reportage
24 November 2023
What guidance for the challenges facing the planet can we find in the words of one of Australia’s greatest prime ministers?
National affairs
6 October 2023
The International Energy Agency brings news, good and bad, on climate
International
22 September 2023
Brazil’s energetic president is set on galvanising the non-Western BRICS grouping, not least to fight climate change
Essays & reportage
8 September 2023
A new kind of history is called for in the year of the Voice referendum. Here’s what it might look like.
National affairs
18 August 2023
The defeat of the latest in a series of nuclear waste plans signals the need for a fresh approach
Books & arts
9 June 2023
A lifelong birdwatcher reviews Libby Robin’s What Birdo Is That?
International
5 June 2023
The latest UN climate conference is under way in Bonn. But the real action might be elsewhere
Books & arts
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?
International
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
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
10 November 2022
Australian historian Alison Bashford illuminates the Huxleys’ rich intellectual ecosystem
International
4 November 2022
The latest UN climate conference matters, though not for quite the reason you might expect
From the archive
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
International
9 November 2021
There is a paradox at the heart of climate activists’ demands for the overthrow of capitalism
Books & arts
30 October 2021
This precious ecosystem yields more of its secrets to forest scientist David Lindenmayer
From the archive
17 September 2021
In a compelling first draft of history, historian Adam Tooze captures an unstable, interconnected world
Books & arts
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
6 August 2021
Mandy Martin, Australian artist
Books & arts
15 March 2021
Music | As the noise returns to our lives, sounds rarely heard are disappearing again
Essays & reportage
17 December 2020
On Tasmania’s Central Plateau, a group of scientists prepares for a hotter future