Morale at the Bureau of Meteorology is at rock bottom, amid veiled pressure from the Abbott government, write Crikey reporter Sally Whyte and Crikey editor Marni Cordell.
The good news is the Abbott government has finally agreed to a Renewable Energy Target. The bad news is it is nowhere near where it should be.
Like true conservatives, the Coalition's leadership team thinks the best environmental strategy is to defund every climate science body but boost spending for a bunch of people to pick up litter.
Conservative columnists and politicians are in lockstep on Direct Action. They're also wrong, writes Canberra economist Tom Westland.
With a quarter of its money spent in the first round, has the government's carbon policy failed straight out of the gate?
The Tasmanian government's proposed expansion of the tourism industry threatens everything great about Tassie's wilderness, writes Bert Spinks, freelance writer and bushwalking guide on the Overland Track.
In many ways, the Coalition's energy white paper is a predictable piece of backward-looking falsehoods. But it does make some surprising concessions to a future of renewable energy.
People on the ground are ready to make the transition to a non-mining economy, but the government and big mining companies are doubling down on coal.
The government has decided to put the Climate Change Authority and Clean Energy Regulator under the purview of the Environment Minister. Not that you'd know it from reading the bill. Freelance journalist Marcus Priest reports.
Climate change is the ultimate form of intergenerational theft -- and Joe Hockey is making it worse.
