News.com.au

Seven environmental groups with a membership of more than one million Australians are calling for a radical overhaul of the country’s electricity network saying coal-fired power needs to be replaced within 11 years.

The Guardian

Oxford Dictionaries has declared “climate emergency” the word of the year for 2019, following a hundred-fold increase in usage that it says demonstrated a “greater immediacy” in the way we talk about the climate.

The Guardian

PM suggests Australia could increase emissions without worsening current fire season, and says government finalising plans to crack down on environmental protests

The Guardian

Foreign affairs staff say despite opposition from some countries, Australia will continue to use them to meet Paris targets

NT News

DARWIN Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis has hit back at critics of climate change action and the council’s new climate emergency project officer, pointing them to Wednesday’s national weather report.

News.com.au

The NSW Government will introduce tough new water restrictions next month for residents of Sydney, the Blue Mountains and the Illawarra as dam levels continue to fall in drought conditions.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Sao Paulo: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro shrugged off a government report that deforestation reached an 11-year high on his watch, saying on Wednesday that he expects the destruction of the world's largest tropical rainforest to continue.

The Interpreter

Polls suggest a majority of Australians want action on global warming, even at a cost – but politics tells us otherwise.

The Canberra Times

There is a race under way to decarbonise the global economy. The prize is both a healthy planet and the economic rewards of new, clean, green industries. Australia is well placed to be a winner, with abundant renewable energy resources - sun and wind - and some of the fastest renewable energy installation rates on the planet. As author and academic Ross Garnaut recently observed, "Australia has the potential to be an economic superpower of the future post-carbon world".

Reneweconomy

Heliogen, an energy company which has been working in “stealth mode” with financial backing from Bill Gates and other high-profile environmental investors, has unveiled what it says is a breakthrough solar technology to provide industrial heat for the production of cement, steel and petrochemicals.

ABC News

These two western Sydney streets are only 1 kilometre apart, but when it comes to temperature there's a lot that separates them.

The Conversation

As the world grapples with an extinction crisis, our large mammals are among the most endangered. These threatened species – rhinos, pandas, tigers, polar bears and the like – greatly influence their ecosystems. So what will happen to the smaller animals left behind?

9 News

A koala filmed crawling through the bushfires devastating Port Macquarie has been reunited with the woman who helped save his life.

ABC News

Yearning for a cool drink, Joh Timmers popped a piece of hail into his drink after a thunderstorm at Wivenhoe Dam recently. But he soon noticed an odd taste.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Sydney has woken to another thick blanket of bushfire smoke that's forecast to remain until Friday, ahead of what's expected to be a number of dangerous days of fire weather in NSW and across the country.

SBS World News Australia

The effects of climate change must be considered a health priority to ensure policies are prepared for its impacts, Labor frontbencher Chris Bowen says.

The Canberra Times

The Coalition will push for a national environmental approvals system, after its red-tape razor gang found processing times could be cut by more than half.

9 News

Koala experts will meet in Brisbane to map out a way to help the native animal, which has been devastated by bushfires in Queensland and NSW.

SBS World News Australia

The environment has topped the list of concerns of Australians aged between 10 and 16 as children fight for a bigger say.

The Canberra Times

I grew up around coal. In my part of Yorkshire great seams of it ran under the sea, and the mines followed for miles underground.

Crikey

Carbon capture and storage is a fossil fuel industry scam — one that the Coalition seems to be considering spending more taxpayer money on.

Yahoo News

Climate change could directly cost the world economy $7.9 trillion by mid-century as increased drought, flooding and crop failures hamper growth and threaten infrastructure, new analysis showed Wednesday.

ABC News

One of Australia's biggest agricultural lenders, National Australia Bank (NAB), will no longer finance businesses non-compliant with animal welfare rules.

The Guardian

Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest joins Mike Cannon-Brookes to raise tens of millions of dollars for Sun Cable

Reneweconomy

A 23MW hybrid generation project developed by EDL at the Agnew gold mine has commenced operations, integrating solar into a gas and diesel micro-grid that will eventually add wind and solar in the first of its type project for a mine.

The Australian Financial Review

London |As urban populations surge around the world, cities will struggle to keep residents safe from fast-growing heat risks turbo-charged by climate change, scientists and public health experts have warned.

SBS World News Australia

Thousands of hectares of koala habitat across northern NSW and southeast Queensland have been destroyed in the recent bushfires.

WAToday

Reef manta rays and whale sharks are ingesting thousands of plastic pieces from broken-down carrier bags and single-use packaging every day, a new Perth-led study has found.

The Conversation

We need to revolutionise agriculture in the next 30 years. In 2050 we may have almost 10 billion people to feed. Farmland is already degraded by existing agriculture, and climate change is putting new pressure on crops and livestock.

The Conversation

Temperatures across many regions of Australia are set to exceed 40℃ this week, including heatwaves forecast throughout parts of eastern Australia, raising the spectre of more devastating bushfires.

The Age

People living in high bushfire-risk areas in Victoria's north and north-west have been urged to leave their homes as soon as possible as the region faces the worst fire conditions in 10 years.

ABC News

The Country Fire Service (CFS) battled more than 45 fires across South Australia on Wednesday in catastrophic conditions and record November heat, with reports of at least one home lost on the lower Yorke Peninsula.

The Australian Financial Review

As historic floods inundated Venice more than half a century ago, one reader in Scotland wrote to The Guardian newspaper in London to express worry about the fate of the "astonishing, but soon-to-vanish" Italian city.

The Australian

ABC chairwoman Ita Buttrose has ruled out the creation of a staff climate crisis advisory group to report on climate change.

Marie Claire

French designer Roland Mouret launched his eponymous label in 1998, but it was his Galaxy dress that really put him on the fashion map in 2005. The tailored pencil-dress style and square neckline won women over for its flattering silhouette, versatile design and classic nature. It was a piece they could wear over and over, for years to come.

The Australian

A Qantas executive has blamed climate change for worsening flight delays, based on above ­average wind strengths at Sydney airport this year.