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  • 'Perfect storm' drives up the cost of natural disasters

    Climate

    A new report has put a dollar figure on the impact of Australia's droughts and flooding rains, with the situation expected to worsen as the world gets warmer.

    Australian Associated Press
    / 03 October 2025
    flooding
  • 'Once in a century human': Jane Goodall's Aussie mark

    Australian General News

    Scientist Jane Goodall, whose work on primates took her around the world, had a soft spot for a leading Australian zoo where chimps thrive.

    Australian Associated Press
    / 02 October 2025
    Taronga Zoo champanzee enclosure
  • Why 2026 could be the year cars drive down power prices

    Future Economies

    With three energy companies committed to trials and more automakers willing to back them, using your electric car as a battery should be possible soon.

    Australian Associated Press
    / 02 October 2025
    Charger on an electric car
  • Green metals or bust: climate experts issue warning

    Future Economies

    Demand for Australia's biggest fossil fuel exports is expected to drop in the coming years but producing green metals could provide a lifeline.

    Australian Associated Press
    / 01 October 2025
    Steel sheets at a steelworks (file image)
  • Game on in the fight to ban platypus 'death traps'

    Environment

    Queensland is under pressure to fall in with the rest of Australia and move on a notorious yabby trap blamed for also fatally ensnaring the iconic platypus.

    Australian Associated Press
    / 01 October 2025
    Platypus (file)
  • Financial sector urged to shoot higher on climate risk

    Climate

    The global financial sector has been urged to prevent further backsliding on climate and to stop funnelling money into new fossil fuels in an open letter.

    Australian Associated Press
    / 28 September 2025
    Heat in Sydney
  • One in three homes in line for sunny value boost

    Climate

    Home buyers have seen the light and are now prepared to pay a little more for solar systems in the expectation of lower bills over time.

    Australian Associated Press
    / 25 September 2025
    Houses with rooftop solar panels in The Ponds in Sydney
  • Where's it going?: expert's grim warning on algal bloom

    Environment

    Effective methods for treating algal blooms have so far only been successful on outbreaks that are significantly smaller than SA's bloom, a US expert says.

    Australian Associated Press
    / 24 September 2025
    ALGAL BLOOM INQUIRY
  • Scientists 'dismayed' as PM to speak on climate target

    Australian General News

    The prime minister will speak on the 2035 climate target at the UN General Assembly as the fight to secure hosting rights for a global climate summit continues.

    Australian Associated Press
    / 24 September 2025
    Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks to the media
  • Tiny forests breathe life and hope into urban Australia

    Regional

    Forests packed into urban spaces as small as basketball courts are quickly revegetating landscapes, attracting native species and connecting people with nature.

    Australian Associated Press
    / 23 September 2025
    Groundswell Collective volunteers at work
  • Coal down, solar up: Australia halfway to 2030 target

    Future Economies

    Growing rooftop solar installations and more large-scale energy projects are pushing Australia closer to its renewable goals, the market operator says.

    Australian Associated Press
    / 23 September 2025
    Homes with solar panels (file image)
  • Time to get hands dirty in fight to protect farms, land

    Climate

    Farmers and the community need to trust one another and work together to tackle challenges facing the land - and outdated laws need to catch up, an expert says.

    Australian Associated Press
    / 22 September 2025
    Fiona Simson and Costa Georgiadis
  • 'Not the cow, the how': calls to overhaul food system

    Agriculture

    Look around any supermarket and fresh produce appears abundant but new food security strategy plans reveal friction between health, nature and economics.

    Australian Associated Press
    / 22 September 2025
    Randal Breen on Echo Valley Farm
  • 'Unliveable': sobering climate change warning for north

    Climate

    A territory considered a cultural and natural wonder is on track to become unliveable within decades due to climate change, a conference has been warned.

    Australian Associated Press
    / 19 September 2025
    People watch the sunset in Darwin
  • Water cycle becoming harder to predict: UN scientists

    International News

    Around 60 per cent of rivers globally showed either too much or too little water compared to the average flow per year, according to UN scientists.

    Australian Associated Press
    / 18 September 2025
    Intense rain in Sydney
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The Australian Museum respects and acknowledges the Gadigal people as the First Peoples and Traditional Custodians of the land and waterways on which the Museum stands.

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