Jess Davis

When Hurricane Milton formed, it met with waters "as warm as a hot tub". As the world continues to burn fossil fuels and ocean temperatures climb, cyclonic storms feed off the heat and become bigger, faster and nastier.

Solar businesses across the country are owed millions of dollars for work they have done as part of Australia's flagship green power scheme. But it's not customers owing them money. It's the middlemen, sitting at the heart of the financial plumbing behind it. 

Scientists are concerned that a toxic herbicide widely used in Australian farming could be linked to the growing prevalence of Parkinson's disease. It sat on the regulator's shelf for review for decades, while the company manufacturing it worked to publicly discredit evidence that its product was harmful.

The recent hot spell may feel unfamiliar, but weather extremes are quickly becoming the norm, as climate change up-ends the winter seasons.

Australian homes are notoriously cold in winter — draughty, with poor insulation, thin glass and inadequate heating. But there’s a growing movement of people retrofitting their homes to make them cheaper to run and more comfortable year-round, while also reducing emissions.

Australia’s largest superannuation funds have doubled their investments in high-emitting companies over the past two years, according to environmental finance group Market Forces.

If budgets are the government’s attempt to chart the course for the next few years, what can this one teach us about how climate change is leaving its mark, and how the government is looking to tackle it?

Australia may have just shivered through the coldest April in almost 10 years, but the rest of the world continued to break heat records for the 11th month in a row.

Floods, bushfires, and severe storms send insurance costs skyrocketing. It’s high time for Australia to heed warnings from other parts of the world before insurance becomes unaffordable for all Australians — or simply unavailable.

The UN agency’s annual State of the Global Climate report confirmed it wasn’t just the hottest year on record, ocean heat reached its highest level since records began, global mean sea level also reached a record high and Antarctic sea ice reached a record low.