Australia

How Pittsburgh’s Alcoa Is Undermining a Rare Forest To Fuel Its Global Aluminum Empire

Since 1963, Alcoa has mined bauxite from the foothills of Australia’s Darling Range under a special political agreement that skirts regulation, guarantees access to scarce water and assures low royalty rates.

By Jamie Wiggan and Quinn Glabicki, PublicSource

Intensifying Tropical Storms Threaten Seabirds, New Research Shows

By Bob Berwyn

A Major Technology for Long-Duration Energy Storage Is Approaching Its Moment of Truth

By Dan Gearino

Increasingly Frequent Ocean Heat Waves Trigger Mass Die-Offs of Sealife, and Grief in Marine Scientists

By Bob Berwyn

NOAA Declares a Global Coral Bleaching Event in 2023

By Bob Berwyn

How Wildfire Smoke from Australia Affected Climate Events Around the World

By Bob Berwyn

In Pivotal Climate Case, UN Panel Says Australia Violated Islanders’ Human Rights

By Katie Surma

Qantas Says Synthetic Fuel Could Power Long Flights by Mid-2030s

By James Fernyhough, The Financial Times

Warming Trends: The Climate Atlas of Canada Maps ‘the Harshities of Life,’ Plus Christians Embracing Climate Change and a New Podcast Called ‘Hot Farm’

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Shifts in El Niño May Be Driving Climates Extremes in Both Hemispheres

By Bob Berwyn

Recent Megafire Smoke Columns Have Reached the Stratosphere, Threatening Earth’s Ozone Shield

By Bob Berwyn

A Warming Climate is Implicated in Australian Wildfires

By Bob Berwyn

In Wildfire’s Wake, Another Threat: Drinking Water Contamination

By Neela Banerjee

Global Water Trade Likely to Expand

By Nina Chestney and Barbara Lewis, Reuters

Australia Nears Deal on Carbon Trading

By Rob Taylor, Reuters

Climate Action Down Under?

By Michael Perry, Reuters

Australia Begins to Harness Ocean Energy

By David Wilson, SolveClimate News

Qantas on Brink of £200m Biojet Fuel Joint Venture

Tim Webb, Guardian

Green Party Assumes Pivotal Role in New Australian Government

By Guest Writer