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Engineers have built machines to scrub CO₂ from the air. But will it halt climate change?
On Wednesday this week, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was measured at at 415 parts per million (ppm). The level is the

World’s first domestic hydrogen battery developed by Australian firm
he world’s first commercially available line of hydrogen-powered domestic products, including a barbecue, a bicycle and most crucially a unit that creates and stores hydrogen

The Morrison government subsidising dirty fuel amid the climate crisis beggars belief
The announcement this week by energy minister Angus Taylor that he’s putting together a major package to prop up oil refineries to preserve dirty fuel

While the world looked the other way, corporate giants abandoned coal
Can we deal with a pandemic and global warming at once – both urgent, one an immediate hit, the other a decade-long burn? Well, yes,

Coronavirus and climate: Australia’s chance to shift to green energy
The fires generated unprecedented demands for climate action in Australia The Covid-19 pandemic is a “huge opportunity” to fast-track Australia’s shift towards more renewable energy,

Climate change talk has been around for 30 years. Where’s the action?
My moment of realisation about the seriousness of climate change came 25 years ago. I expected governments to act. (Getty Images: Neil Overy/Gallo Images) I

Just how hot will it get this century? Latest climate models suggest it could be worse than we thought
Climate scientists use mathematical models to project the Earth’s future under a warming world, but a group of the latest models have included unexpectedly high

Australia’s climate future to evolve as economy is rebuilt
Just a few months ago there had been growing consensus among scientists, activists, economists and even investors that 2020 would be pivotal in the fight

Want to Plant More Trees? Just Use a Different Search Engine
When Pieter van Midwoud came across a job listing for a tree-planting officer at a non-profit called Ecosia, he knew he’d found his true calling. “There