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Correspondents
The feckless four
Nic Maclellan
2 February 2024
What do governments led by Rishi Sunak, Vladimir Putin, Emmanuel Macron and Kim Jong-un have in common?
Correspondents
The beginning of the end
Michael Jacobs
14 December 2023
The COP28 agreement has the potential to fuel a virtuous circle of policy, innovation and scale
Correspondents
Hot air, cold reality, warm feelings
Michael Jacobs
9 December 2023
At COP28 our correspondent probes a PR blitz for signs of genuine progress
Essays & Reportage
Continent of fire
Tom Griffiths
6 December 2023
Australia’s fatal firestorms have a distinctive and mainly Victorian lineage, but the 2019–20 season was frighteningly new
Correspondents
Big deal in Dubai
Michael Jacobs
1 December 2023
UAE deal-maker Ahmed Al Jaber has kicked off this year’s climate talks with a historic coup
Essays & Reportage
A rainy day in Hobart
Anne-Marie Condé
1 December 2023
Where did all that water go?
Essays & Reportage
The world after John Curtin
Tom Griffiths
24 November 2023
What guidance for the challenges facing the planet can we find in the words of one of Australia’s greatest prime ministers?
National Affairs
Half empty and half full?
Tim Colebatch
6 October 2023
The International Energy Agency brings news, good and bad, on climate
Correspondents
The second coming of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Michael Jacobs
22 September 2023
Brazil’s energetic president is set on galvanising the non-Western BRICS grouping, not least to fight climate change
Essays & Reportage
Odyssey down under
Tom Griffiths
8 September 2023
A new kind of history is called for in the year of the Voice referendum. Here’s what it might look like.
National Affairs
No time to waste
Jessica Urwin
18 August 2023
The defeat of the latest in a series of nuclear waste plans signals the need for a fresh approach
Books & Arts
Mad for the feathers
William McInnes
9 June 2023
A lifelong birdwatcher reviews Libby Robin’s
What Birdo Is That?
Correspondents
Where’s the climate action?
Michael Jacobs
5 June 2023
The latest UN climate conference is under way in Bonn. But the real action might be elsewhere
Books & Arts
Why the rush?
Sarah Barns
21 January 2023
A new book about urban mobility invites us to think differently about our streets: who do they belong to, what are they for, who gets to decide?
Correspondents
Agreement by ordeal
Michael Jacobs
22 November 2022
Nearly forty hours behind schedule, a final climate compromise was reached in Sharm el-Sheikh. But important action was going on elsewhere too
Books & Arts
Ecology of extremes
Tom Griffiths
15 November 2022
Steve Morton’s
Australian Deserts
— winner of the 2022 Whitley Medal for an outstanding publication on Australasian wildlife — highlights the rich diversity of…
Books & Arts
Smite all humbug
Morag Fraser
10 November 2022
Australian historian Alison Bashford illuminates the Huxleys’ rich intellectual ecosystem
Correspondents
What exactly is the point of COP27?
Michael Jacobs
4 November 2022
The latest UN climate conference matters, though not for quite the reason you might expect
From the archive
Flowers for Evelyn
Kim Mahood
4 November 2022
In this extract from
Wandering with Intent
, winner of this year’s
Age
Non-fiction Book of the Year award,
Kim Mahood
heads northwest on the Tanami Road
Correspondents
“System change, not climate change!”
Michael Jacobs
9 November 2021
There is a paradox at the heart of climate activists’ demands for the overthrow of capitalism
Books & Arts
Why we need a Great Forest National Park
Tom Griffiths
30 October 2021
This precious ecosystem yields more of its secrets to forest scientist David Lindenmayer
From the archive
Organised irresponsibility
Ryan Cropp
17 September 2021
In a compelling first draft of history, historian Adam Tooze captures an unstable, interconnected world
Books & Arts
Muddying the waters
Margaret Simons
31 August 2021
There’s plenty wrong with how the Murray–Darling is being managed, but Wall Street isn’t the culprit to target
Essays & Reportage
The beauty and the terror
Tom Griffiths
6 August 2021
Mandy Martin, Australian artist
Books & Arts
Sounds of silence
Andrew Ford
15 March 2021
Music
| As the noise returns to our lives, sounds rarely heard are disappearing again
Essays & Reportage
Weekend in Gondwana
Jo Chandler
17 December 2020
On Tasmania’s Central Plateau, a group of scientists prepares for a hotter future
International
New Caledonia’s triple opportunity
Nic Maclellan
10 December 2020
After weeks of protests, the Goro nickel smelter is up for grabs. Independence groups see the outcome as vital for the French dependency’s future
Books & Arts
Yes, we can
Jane Goodall
18 August 2020
Television
| The
Chaser
’s Craig Reucassel finds hope in the face of an eye-watering planetary deficit
Essays & Reportage
Summer’s legacy
Jennifer Doggett
25 June 2020
As research on the health impact of the fire season continues, the lessons are becoming clearer
Essays & Reportage
Another ferocious summer
Alessandro Antonello
4 March 2020
As the season’s last scientific resupply journeys are made to Antarctica, a visitor observes the deepening impact of climate change
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