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- Australia’s bid to host a Cop summit could shape climate action and politics for years to come | Adam Morton Mon, 19 Sep 22, 3:30amWinning the 2024 climate talks could pressure Australia to rejoin the Green Climate Fund, increase its 2035 emissions target, and ditch new coal and gas developments
- Australia is pushing to host a Cop meeting – if successful it would be forced to ramp up climate action | Adam Morton Mon, 19 Sep 22, 3:30amWinning the 2024 climate talks could pressure Australia to rejoin the Green Climate Fund, increase its 2035 emissions target, and ditch new coal and gas developments
- End of rapid Covid test and telehealth subsidies criticised – as it happened Tue, 12 Jul 22, 6:39pmPayments extended to eight more local government areas and sped up to prioritise victims over auditing; free Covid rapid tests for concession card holders to end this month...
- Australia news live: end of rapid Covid test and telehealth subsidies criticised as nation records 58 more deaths from virus Tue, 12 Jul 22, 3:56pmPayments extended to eight more local government areas and sped up to prioritise victims over auditing; free Covid rapid tests for concession card holders to end this month
- Australia news live: flood payments fast-tracked for NSW; free Covid rapid tests for concession card holders to end Tue, 12 Jul 22, 1:00pmPayments extended to eight more local government areas and sped up to prioritise victims over auditing
- Australia news live: NSW follows WA and ACT to reduce Covid reinfection window to four weeks; Albanese to open energy forum Tue, 12 Jul 22, 9:58amVaccines and antivirals not enough to combat Australian Omicron surge, experts warnGet our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcastA new campaign has launched today to tackle racism by the Australian...
- The Guardian view on Australia’s election: Labor needs to go bigger on climate | Editorial Sat, 28 May 22, 3:30amLabor won by offering modest environmental policies. It will have to go further in office to deal with the climate emergency
- Environmental lessons from Pacific Islanders Wed, 25 May 22, 3:30amIf we want to learn how to deal with a quickly endangered world, we can learn some lessons from people who are already dealing with the consequences: Pacific Islanders.[...]
- Leading the charge: road-testing Australia’s EV stations on a 2,800km round trip Sun, 3 Apr 22, 6:00amWhat are the pleasures and pitfalls of driving an electric car from Sydney to Melbourne and back? Guardian Australia’s economics correspondent Peter Hannam goes for a test drive...
- The Tongan eruption sent shockwaves around the world Tue, 18 Jan 22, 2:15amScott Manley has done an excellent summary video of the Tongan volcano, much of the science and history of it as well as the effects thousands of miles away...
- New Study: Pacific And Indian Ocean Sea Levels Rising ‘Much Slower Than Climate Model Predictions’ Tue, 4 Jan 22, 9:00pmOver 700 low-lying islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans have coasts that have been stable to expanding in size since the 1980s. The relative sea level rise has only been +0.46 mm/year in these regions with “almost...
- Sea Level Alarmism Unravels As Earth’s Coastlines Are Observed Expanding Since 1984 Sat, 20 Nov 21, 9:00amClaims of dangerously accelerating sea level rise posing an imminent global threat to coasts have once again been challenged by real-world observational evidence.
- Greta Thunberg joins climate protest in London ahead of Cop26 Sat, 30 Oct 21, 2:27amSwedish activist says she has not officially been invited to Glasgow climate summit
- New Study: 62 km² (+6%) Net Expansion In 100s Of Pacific-Indian Ocean Island Shorelines From 2000-2017 Tue, 31 Aug 21, 11:00pmFrom the NoTricksZone By Kenneth Richard on 30. August 2021 A global-scale analysis of 221 islands in the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans reveals “a predominantly stable or accretionary trend in the area…
- The world could hit 1.5C warming in a decade. That’s terrible news for the Pacific | Mark Howden and Morgan Wairiu Tue, 10 Aug 21, 3:30amA new IPCC report makes clear what island nations have long warned. Their survival depends on urgent collective action