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9 December 2025

  • Adam Morton

    Clear air
    It’s two years since we were told ‘the age of fossil fuels will end’. When will Australia get prepared for what’s coming?

    Adam Morton
    The decline of the coal export industry could come even faster than expected, and we need to do more to manage the economic risks
  • Offshore wind turbines

    Ofgem approves early investment in three UK electricity ‘superhighways’

    Green light intended to limit amount consumers pay for windfarms to turn off during periods of high generation

    • US judge strikes down Trump order blocking wind energy projects

    • Australia’s energy grid must triple capacity by 2050 with major increase to wind and solar, Aemo says

    • ‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’

8 December 2025

  • John Swinney in front of large backdrop saying 'It's Scotland's Energy'

    ‘It’s Scotland’s energy’: SNP to focus on renewables in Holyrood election

    Leader John Swinney says independence could cut household energy bills by a third in the long term
  • an aerial view of a data center

    More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters

    Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisis
  • fields full of photovoltaic panels

    ‘Zombie’ electricity projects in Britain face axe to ease quicker grid connections

    Backlog delaying ‘shovel-ready’ ventures will be cleared with aim of building virtually zero-carbon power system by 2030

7 December 2025

  • A white building with a red roof on a rocky spit into blue water, with green hills in the background.

    Canada may approve a new oil pipeline. First Nations fear another ‘worst-case scenario’

    Mark Carney is considering lifting a tanker ban that has protected coastal communities for 53 years

5 December 2025

  • A gas ring burns on a kitchen stove

    Homegrown gas is vital for UK energy security

    Letter: Domestic gas production must be incentivised if the UK is to avoid damaging shortages, writes Prof John Underhill

4 December 2025

  • An illustration of a sun made of data connections over parched red earth

    Australian climate and environment in focus
    Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply

  • an electricity pylon set amid lush green rolling fields and hills

    Households face higher energy bills as £28bn grid upgrade gets go-ahead

3 December 2025

  • cars on a freeway

    Trump says he will repeal Biden-era fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks

    Move marks president’s latest effort to dismantle pollution regulations and support for cleaner-running vehicles
  • an aerial view of land

    ‘There’s no monitoring of earthquakes’: new British Columbia pipeline could spell catastrophe, experts warn

    Project on ‘very poorly understood’ terrain and likely to pass through Rocky Mountain trench, which researchers say poses immense geological hazard
  • Marina Silva

    View from the Amazon
    ‘The dinosaurs didn’t know what was coming, but we do’: Marina Silva on what needs to follow Cop30

    Exclusive: Brazil’s environment minister talks about climate inaction and the course we have to plot to save ourselves and the planet

2 December 2025

  • Illustration of data centres on a hill with houses below

    Australian climate and environment in focus
    Datacentres demand huge amounts of electricity. Could they derail Australia’s net zero ambitions?

    Banks of servers operating 24/7 generate massive amounts of heat, requiring power to run and cool them

1 December 2025

  • An aerial view of a solar fararm

    Australia could miss clean energy target as solar and wind investment slumps, investors warn

    Expert warns large pipeline of potential projects will not deliver required energy capacity unless companies make final investments

November 2025

  • an exterior view of a power plant

    Trump order to keep Michigan power plant open costs taxpayers $113m

    Critics say JH Campbell coal-fired plant in western Michigan is expensive and emits high levels of toxic pollution
  • A crane lifts a 245-tonne domed roof onto the second reactor building at Hinkley Point C nuclear power station

    UK energy bill payers will hand £2bn a year to EDF for new power stations

    French government-owned company to receive funding for Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C
  • A general view of the Loy Yang coal mine.

    Australia projected to miss 2035 emissions reduction target ‘by a country mile’ unless it ramps up climate policies

    Climate change minister Chris Bowen acknowledges ‘additional work’ needed to meet 2035 goal
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