Haze hits Sydney suburbs on Tuesday morning after crossing NSW from SA and Victoria
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Parts of Sydney faced “extremely poor” air quality warnings on Tuesday morning as a dust storm swept eastwards from inland Australia.
Sydney’s north-west and central west including Parramatta had the heaviest air pollution, with very poor air quality also observed across Sydney stretching as far south as Goulburn and as far north as Muswellbrook, according to official pollution monitoring stations.
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05/26/2025 - 21:56
05/26/2025 - 20:22
Anthony Albanese visits mid-north coast as police warn of ‘un-Australian’ looting during clean-up
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Anthony Albanese has warned the recovery from floods on the New South Wales mid-north coast could take months but has promised less red tape and more money for impacted residents.
The prime minister on Tuesday visited Milton Johnson’s dairy farms at Taree – the epicentre of the latest NSW floods.
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05/26/2025 - 19:19
Governments must help households to make the switch to cleaner energy, and change the rules so that the benefits and costs are fairly shared
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The great energy transition is happening before our eyes. You can see it on our roofs: more than one in three Australian homes now have solar. You can see it on our roads: nearly 10% of new cars sold in Australia last year were electric.
But the greening of Australia is creating losers as well as winners. While wealthier households are saving on their energy bills by installing solar panels and switching from gas to all-electric, many people have no choice but to stay with more expensive fossil fuels.
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Dominic Jones is an associate in the Energy and Climate Change Program at Grattan Institute
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05/26/2025 - 13:30
Braunschweig court gives two former executives prison sentences for roles in emissions test-cheating scandal
A German court has convicted four former Volkswagen managers of fraud and given two of them prison sentences for their part in the “dieselgate” emissions test-cheating scandal that erupted almost a decade ago.
The former head of development Heinz-Jakob Neusser received a suspended jail term of one year and three months from the court in the city of Braunschweig, according to the news agency Bloomberg.
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05/26/2025 - 11:00
Upemba lechwe considered one of world’s rarest large mammals with fewer than 100 thought to remain
A photograph of Africa’s “forgotten antelope” has been published for the first time as the elusive creature dives towards extinction.
Fewer than 100 Upemba lechwe are thought to remain, with an aerial survey in the Kamalondo depression of the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo having recorded 10 individuals.
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05/26/2025 - 10:00
Environment minister Murray Watt is due to make a decision on whether to extend the controversial North West Shelf development in coming days
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Reliable energy or ‘carbon bomb’? What’s at stake in the battle over Australia’s North West Shelf
Unless something remarkable – the federal court, perhaps – intervenes, the Albanese government will this week make a decision that could have ramifications for greenhouse gas emissions and Indigenous heritage that last for decades – or longer. It relates to the future of the North West Shelf, one of the world’s largest liquified natural gas (LNG) projects.
Most discussion about it assumes that it is a done deal – that the environment minister, Murray Watt, will give the green light to an application by Woodside Energy to extend the life of the gas export processing facility on the Burrup peninsula in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
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05/26/2025 - 10:00
Exclusive: Disaster Relief Australia pushes for funding deal as it positions itself as alternative to ADF in aftermath of floods, fires and cyclones
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The veteran-led organisation on the frontline of disaster recovery wants federal government support to help establish a 10,000-strong volunteer army.
Disaster Relief Australia (DRA) is pushing for a new funding deal to secure its future and grow its force, as it positions itself as an alternative to the Australian defence force in the aftermath of major floods, fires and cyclones.
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05/26/2025 - 09:00
Volunteers, organized by landscape architecture firm Terremoto, clear invasive plants and restore native fauna: ‘It’s a years-long relationship with the land’
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05/26/2025 - 06:00
Brutal heat and drought expected to blanket country from Nevada to Florida as experts worry climate cuts will burn
This year’s summer months promise to be among the hottest on record across the United States, continuing a worsening trend of extreme weather, and amid concern over the impacts of Trump administration cuts to key agencies.
The extreme heat could be widespread and unrelenting: only far northern Alaska may escape unusually warm temperatures from June through August, according to the latest seasonal forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa).
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05/26/2025 - 04:00
For decades, the men and women of the Venezuelan Crocodile Specialist Group have been raising younglings of the critically endangered species in a race against time to avoid its extinction
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