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To tackle the worsening climate emergency, we need to build a mass movement that opposes the profits-driven capitalist system, argues Pip Hinman.

Farmers went to Queensland Parliament House to tell MPs, bankers and energy industry representatives that they want a clean future, so they can keep farming forever. Elena Garcia reports.

Up the garden path

Peter Dutton's nuclear power push needs to be opposed but Labor is compromised on nuclear, writes Alex Bainbridge.

Pro-nuclear pundits are using push-polling tricks to sway opinions which include biased preliminary comments, biased questions, limited response options and misreporting the findings. Jim Green reports.

As global temperatures rise we need serious action to solve the climate emergency

Alarmingly 鈥 but not surprisingly 鈥 2023 was the hottest year since 1850, but Labor is dragging its feet and depending on the private sector to handle the climate transition. Pip Hinman reports.

The Big Switch

Saul Griffiths has demonstrated聽that 100% renewable energy would help the US and Australia not聽reach the聽climate targets,聽surpass them and聽raise export earnings. Elena Garcia reports.

Three weeks before the AUKUS nuclear聽submarine deal was announced, a new plan to build a large renewable energy hub at Port Kembla was unveiled. Melanie Barnes reports.

A Rising Tide climate camp, from April 14-17, is set to launch a campaign to shut down the world鈥檚 biggest coal port by 2030. Niko Leka reports.

The climate is changing why arent we

Australia lacks ambition and needs to do more in the global effort to stay below 1.5掳C, the United Nations said on the eve of its climate summit in Egypt, reports Pip Hinman.

If the climate was a bank

Ahead of COP27, governments are making a big deal of their pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But聽even if all the pledges were kept, global warming would still reach catastrophic levels, argues Ben Radford.

All state and territory governments are focused on the renewables transition, so why is the nuclear power 鈥渄ebate鈥 refusing to die? Dr Jim Green investigates.

Renewable energy

The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act聽constitutes the boldest climate action so far by the US government, writes Richard Heinberg. However, this doesn't mean the US or the world is on track to a safe climate future.