Scientists are urging major dam projects in NSW and Queensland be abandoned, warning of significant environmental and agricultural consequences.

In the first major study of its kind, we travelled to where renewable energy is expanding in NSW to ask communities how they feel about the changes. While their outlook was generally positive, governments can do more to ensure community support for the transition.

Working with regional communities could help avoid conflicts and make current woes ‘the last energy crisis Australia ever has to face’

This week’s report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns global warming is headed for dangerous levels unless greenhouse gas emissions halve this decade. This cannot be achieved without a huge effort from China, the world’s biggest emitter.

Climatologists say it would be unfair to claim the BOM missed the mark on the weekend's floods. In fact, forecasts in general have been getting more accurate — extreme events are just much harder to predict, and becoming harder still due to climate change.

Climate change is already pushing some human systems and ecosystems beyond their adaptation limits