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National affairs
Will Batman’s voters take no for an answer?
Kerry Ryan
8 March 2018
The Sunshine State continues to make its mark in Melbourne’s closely watched federal by-election
From the archive
How Harold Holt was lost
Tom Griffiths
17 December 2017
A chance encounter anticipated the shocking disappearance of a prime minister fifty years ago
National affairs
Green in judgement
Tony Blackshield
26 October 2017
What does the High Court’s decision in the Lapoinya Forest case tell us about its evolving attitude to free speech?
Essays & reportage
Tearing down and building up
Andrea Gaynor & Tom Griffiths
18 July 2017
Extract
| How Geoffrey Bolton’s environmental history made a difference
National affairs
The devils in Finkel’s detail
Tim Colebatch
23 June 2017
What are the consequences of choosing a second-best scheme?
National affairs
Despite the politics, good news on climate
John Quiggin
5 April 2017
It’s almost certainly too late for any leader to derail progress towards a decarbonised global economy
National affairs
Energy security: a litmus test for the PM and his deputy
Tim Colebatch
17 February 2017
Malcolm Turnbull is staking his government on policies that are widely opposed and hard to defend
National affairs
High energy prices? Blame fossil fuel generators, not renewables
Giles Parkinson
10 February 2017
The Coalition is chasing the wrong target, despite all the evidence
Podcasts
Toads on the evolutionary road
Rick Shine & Terry Lane
22 October 2016
Can evolution be used to control the spread of cane toads? In this 2005 interview, biologist Rick Shine reports from the field
National affairs
Malcolm Roberts versus a century and a half of science
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
31 August 2016
Diary of a Climate Scientist
| If the new One Nation senator wants empirical evidence, he can take his pick from 150 years of research, says
Sarah
Perkins-Kirkpatrick
Essays & reportage
Golden disobedience: the history of Eric Rolls
Tom Griffiths
9 August 2016
For Eric Rolls, historical writing needed to serve the future, writes
Tom Griffiths
National affairs
Feeling the heat
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
4 August 2016
Diary of a Climate Scientist
| Record-breaking “heat index” scores highlight the growing impact of climate change, writes
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
National affairs
How hot was autumn?
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
3 June 2016
Diary of a Climate Scientist
| Autumn could scarcely have been hotter, says
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
in this overview of a record-breaking season
Essays & reportage
Burying Margaret Mead
Felicity Wade
2 June 2016
Labor seemed the obvious place to mobilise broader support for strong climate change policies, writes former Wilderness Society staffer
Felicity Wade
Essays & reportage
A new mother tongue
Jane Gleeson-White
17 May 2016
Expanding how economics measures and reports will have enormous benefits, writes
Jane
Gleeson-White
. And it’s already happening
National affairs
Underwater extremes
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
27 April 2016
Diary of a Climate Scientist
| With much of the Earth covered by oceans, a different kind of heatwave is attracting attention, writes
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
Essays & reportage
High pressure for low emissions: how civil society created the Paris climate agreement
Michael Jacobs
23 March 2016
A coalition of organisations forced the hands of the world’s major polluters
National affairs
A monster of a month
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
22 March 2016
Diary of a Climate Scientist
| El Niño is only part of the explanation for a record-breaking February, writes
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
Books & arts
One Sunday in March
Kerry Ryan
21 March 2016
Kerry Ryan
keeps his options open at WOMADelaide
National affairs
CSIRO and climate: the devil in the detail
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
25 February 2016
Diary of a Climate Scientist
| Cutting funding at this stage of climate change research comes with enormous risks, writes
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
International
After Paris: where now for carbon pricing?
Rebecca Pearse
21 December 2015
Carbon trading might have been given just a small part in the Paris agreement, writes
Rebecca Pearse
, but it was already time to move on
National affairs
Asking the right questions about extreme weather
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
24 November 2015
Diary of a Climate Scientist
| It’s not a simple case of cause and effect, writes
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
Books & arts
The biggest stage
Brett Evans
12 November 2015
Books
|
Brett Evans
follows Peter Garrett from West Pymble to Canberra, via French’s in Oxford Street
National affairs
When El Niño met the Indian Ocean Dipole
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
20 October 2015
Diary of a climate scientist
| This year’s El Niño could be a whopper, writes
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
, but we still don’t know exactly what…
Essays & reportage
On board the sushi train
Brett Evans
13 October 2015
Robotics meets fish farming in an innovative new technique being developed by Australian scientist Neil Sims, writes
Brett Evans
National affairs
How should we feel about climate change?
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
23 September 2015
Diary of a climate scientist
| Where do emotions fit into the work of scientists who study climate, asks
Sarah Perkins
International
Wherever you are, heatwaves are getting relatively worse
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
25 August 2015
Diary of a climate scientist
| Even the “top of Europe” suffers in a heatwave, writes
Sarah Perkins
. And worldwide they’re becoming more frequent and more intense
Essays & reportage
Dog eat cat: the push to rewild Australia
Brett Evans
16 July 2015
As the Threatened Species Summit opens in Melbourne,
Brett Evans
profiles a scientist film-maker who says “rewilding” is the best way to battle the invasive…
International
The prospects for action on climate have never been better
John Quiggin
23 June 2015
A series of trends has combined to radically change policies among the largest emitters, writes
John Quiggin
International
When free-riding proves expensive
Michael Gill
17 June 2015
Economist William Nordhaus has come up with a new approach to reducing carbon emissions, writes
Michael Gill
. And Australia could benefit more than we expect
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