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  • Climate tipping points being crossed, scientists warn

    Climate tipping points being crossed, scientists warn
    Oct 14 2025
    A large white coral reef containing important species and fossil traces has been discovered at a depth of more than 500 metres in the Gulf of Naples, in a rare discovery for the Mediterranean. But a new report suggests reefs like this might already be in danger, with global warming crossing dangerous thresholds sooner than expected and the world's coral reefs now in an almost irreversible die-off. It marks what scientists are describing as the first tipping point in climate-driven ecosystem collapse.
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  • What's next for South Australia's algae bloom?

    What's next for South Australia's algae bloom?
    Sep 26 2025
    South Australia's algal bloom continues to spread, leading to significant environmental, ecological and mental health harm. Those impacts have been heard at a Senate inquiry examining support arrangements for those affected, but also long-term prevention strategies.
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  • UN says millions of young people are being left behind

    UN says millions of young people are being left behind
    Sep 26 2025
    Youth advocates from around the world have gathered at the UN headquarters in New York to participate in the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly. Their meeting marked the thirtieth anniversary of the World Programme of Action for Youth.
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  • Opinions divided on how to save our precious mountain ash forests

    Opinions divided on how to save our precious mountain ash forests
    Sep 20 2025
    New research has found Australia's heat-stressed forests are rapidly thinning, and could even be producing carbon emissions. It comes as the government prepares to release its 2035 emissions targets and a climate risk report later this month. But local researchers, politicians and Traditional Owner land groups remain divided on how to protect the forest.
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  • 'Right plan for Australia': Government ministers defend 2035 climate target

    'Right plan for Australia': Government ministers defend 2035 climate target
    Sep 19 2025
    Climate advocates say the federal government's 2035 emissions reduction target falls "dangerously short", while the Coalition has said its plan is "grounded in fantasy land". Government ministers are now working to justify the target to the public and the community, as the Coalition is under pressure to outline their climate policy.
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  • Deep rifts widen further within Coalition under climate change pressure

    Deep rifts widen further within Coalition under climate change pressure
    Sep 16 2025
    Liberal senator Jonathan Duniam has warned the Coalition will face a "mass exodus" from its frontbench if it adopts a net zero policy without caveats, handing Opposition leader Sussan Ley a fresh test over the party's stance on climate action. The warning comes a day after Liberal MP Andrew Hastie threatened to quit the party if it pursued a policy of net zero emissions by 2050.
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  • Australia's greatest threat: Not war, not terror, not pandemic... but the climate

    Australia's greatest threat: Not war, not terror, not pandemic... but the climate
    Sep 2 2025
    As the Coalition remains divided over net zero emission targets, former security leaders are warning the government that climate change poses an immediate national security threat.In the Senate, the Greens are pushing for the release of the National Climate Risk Assessment Report while Nationals Senator Matt Canavan is pushing ahead with a bill to repeal net zero.
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  • Spain prepares for future extreme weather after 'environmental catastrophe'

    Spain prepares for future extreme weather after 'environmental catastrophe'
    Sep 2 2025
    After a summer in which much of western and southern Europe were impacted by catastrophic fires and searing heat, Spain now forming a plan to prepare for future disasters.Scientists say action is needed to reduce emissions and increase resilience, in the face of inevitable worsening conditions.
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