New plans aiming to make the most of Queensland’s Olympic and Paralympic hosting duties, will look at improving accessibility and sustainability as part of the 2032 Games legacy. Key points: The 20-year blueprint has been praised by international Olympic and Paralympic committees, who called the vision and community input “unprecedented”. While other host cities have committed to legacy […]
If the New South Wales government and opposition want to stop disruptive climate protests, the answer may be hiding in plain sight, and it’s not jailing protesters. Deanna “Violet” Coco was sentenced last week to a non-parole period of eight months, with a total sentence up to 15 months. She was denied bail. It stems from her arrest after blockading a lane of […]
On the doorstep of an industrial city, Trevor Turner patrols his local beach keeping watch over vulnerable sea turtles. “You look around and it’s like, wow, this is special,” he said. For 13 years Mr Turner has doggedly worked to protect the species, earning him the nickname “turtle man” in the small community of Southend […]
Rising temperatures mean Queensland-grown strawberries are in danger, experts say. Key points: Cropping expert Paul Gauthier told ABC Radio Brisbane Breakfast host Craig Zonca that rising temperatures meant the popular fruit could become a thing of the past. “There’s something about strawberries that if you reach a temperature above 26 degrees Celsius, they stop flowering, […]
In a world hyper-attuned to disease after more than two years of a global pandemic, every new outbreak attracts headlines. The globe is still grappling with COVID-19, but Australians have had to get their heads around the symptoms and risks associated with a number of other new diseases. Take Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), which was found […]
Labor has begged industry bosses to fire up all their coal-fuelled power stations at full capacity to ease the national energy crisis in a dramatic policy u-turn. Just days after promising ‘real action on climate change’, Labor today demanded the nation’s coal power stations are all brought back into service as soon as possible. At […]
About one in 25 Australian homes are at high risk of becoming effectively uninsurable by 2030, according to a new Climate Council report based on analysis by a climate risk assessment group. Key points: That number rises to more than one in 10 homes for some of the most affected regions, including parts of Brisbane, the Gold Coast, […]
What started as quiet concern is growing much louder among climate scientists: without a very radical change of course within the next few years, we’re not going to stop the world from passing 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. At the rate we’re going, we’ve got around 10 years until we hit 1.5C. In terms of the numbers: the Intergovernmental Panel […]
Climatic trends, extreme conditions and sea level rise are already hitting many of Australia’s ecosystems, industries and cities hard. As climate change intensifies, we are now seeing cascading and compounding impacts and risks, including where extreme events coincide. These are placing even greater pressure on our ability to respond. While the work of adaptation has […]
A key question many have asked all week, as floods inundated southeast Queensland, then northeast NSW, then more parts of the NSW coast and nearby ranges, including the Sydney region, is this: Is climate change to blame? The last six days over eastern Australia. pic.twitter.com/0EUy8wf9ZX — Andrew Miskelly (@andrewmiskelly) In truth, a better question would […]
