The Latest Breaking News from Climate Change

Extreme weather events are the new normal. The use of nuclear weapons by Vladimir Putin’s Russian military is now an unthinkable possibility. And Xi Jinping’s China, our largest trading partner and rising superpower, is pulling down the shutters.

It’s tempting to think the Coalition lost the election purely because of climate change, but there’s much more to it than that.

It is our rich, albeit declining, biodiversity that provides us with potential solutions to our sustainability challenges

Climate change will be one focus of the World Economic Forum's first in-person gathering of business and government leaders in two years

Australia's Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese is a politician molded by his humble start to life as the only child of a single mother who raised him on a pension in gritty inner-Sydney suburbia.

Anthony Albanese and his senior leadership and economics team will be sworn in on Monday as PM-elect declares he wants to ‘change the country’

Professional women and voters concerned about climate change unleashed a third force in Australia's election, taking a swath of seats that ended nine years of conservative rule even as votes for the winning Labor Party fell.

Public concern over climate change was a clear factor in the election of Australia’s new Labor government. Incoming Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has committed to action on the issue, declaring on Saturday night: “Together we can take advantage of the opportunity for Australia to be a renewable energy superpower”.

Instead of taking on vested interests in the agriculture and corporate sectors, the government continues to take the line of least resistance

Although our wine industry is doing a good job reacting to climate change, it could become too hot to grow certain grape varieties - but that opens an opportunity to grow others, says Ali Lowrey

Anthony Albanese’s Labor Party is set to take power in Australia for the first time since 2013, as voters booted out Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s conservative government in a shift likely to bring greater action on climate change, women’s issues and anti-corruption efforts.