This time last year Copenhagen was being hailed as the last great chance for the Earth and that an agreement on a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol was imminent.
Scientists in California have reported a significant increase in freshwater flow into the world’s oceans per year claiming it to be a result of more extreme and frequent storms caused by the shift in the world’s weather patterns.
BHP Billiton chief Marius Kloppers has called on the Gillard Government to introduce a tax on carbon ahead of international agreements to protect Australia's economic interests.
Rising sea temperatures have caused coral bleaching at the world's southernmost coral reef at Lord Howe Island, say a team of Australian researchers.
New research has shown both Australia and New Zealand have just experienced their hottest decade since temperatures were first recorded.
By Rich Bowden: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has told reporters that some agreement is still possible in key climate talks in Copenhagen despite major disagreements in over one hundred provisions. Despite a generally pessimistic view from world leaders as they fly in to Copenhagen for the culmination of nearly two weeks of acrimonious...
In the first of a five part series, author and archaeologist Jon Moore takes a sideways look at the great climate debate and asks the question, is everything we are being told bollocks?
By Rich Bowden: A new research centre, which will develop methods to power cities and desalinate water using geothermal energy, has been opened in Perth, Western Australia. The Western Australian Geothermal Centre of Excellence (WAGCOE) is a partnership between CSIRO and The University of Western Australia and the Curtin University of Technology, with funding...
By Rich Bowden: A recently-released report on the state of New Zealand’s glaciers has found they have, once again, lost a significant portion of their ice mass. The National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA), the NZ-based organisation which conducts both commercial and non-commercial research in the field of environmental sciences, has found...
By Rich Bowden: The Australian Government has linked a weekend of searing temperatures in NSW, and wild flooding in the south, to changes brought about by global warming and demanded a political agreement on an emissions trading scheme by this week. NSW firefighters battled plus 40 degree heat while containing a number of dangerous...
By Rich Bowden: Documents and emails purporting to show manipulation of climate data and suppression of dissenting material have been hacked from the University of East Anglia, U.K. The university has confirmed the theft of documents though said it is impossible to say if all the data now released on the Internet is genuine....
By Simon Hukin: Why I Love Tax and You Should Too A carbon tax has none of the problems associated with other carbon reduction schemes. The carbon tax is an incentive for polluters to clean up their act and to encourage venture capitalists to invest in innovative clean, renewable technologies, by making them more...
Australian researchers have said it is still possible to contain climate change to within 2 degrees C.
Australian and NZ scientists are well represented in an open letter that calls on leaders to commit to bolder emissions targets.
The New Zealand government's carbon emissions reduction plan has drawn mixed reactions from the country's climate experts and environmental groups.
By Rich Bowden Img: Pollution. Credit: pfala/flickr Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown has criticised the federal Government’s plan to reduce greenhouse gases saying it “undermines” global efforts to achieve real cuts in carbon emissions. Senator Brown’s criticism came in a Greens press release which said the Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme of 5 percent...
