Climate crisis

Labor’s decision to extend Woodside’s North West Shelf sends a clear signal to the gas industry that it will not let the concerns of scientists, Traditional Owners and ordinary working people stand in the way of corporate profits, argues Maz Misiewicz.

 

Climate protesters chanted “Yancoal, No way! End mining coal today!” outside the company’s annual general meeting at Darling Harbour. Jim McIlroy reports.

Students and supporters across the country rallied to oppose the racist, anti-worker and anti-LGBTIQ agenda of the Donald Trump administration in the United States. Chloe DS reports. 

Long-range forecasters, analysing AI models and satellite data, had warned of the latest developing catastrophic weather event weeks ahead, but governments did little. Just as well communities pull together, writes Peter Perkins.

Labor looks set to abolish the modest “Nature Positive” reforms to climate law that it suggested during its first term, after environment minister Murray Watt approved Woodside's LNG North West Shelf expansion. Pip Hinman reports.

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Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents new books on the German peasants’ war, air, Amazonian struggles, climate history, class rule and Karl Marx’s later views on oppression and revolution.

Polly Cutmore, a Traditional Gomeroi Owner, has rejected the Native Title Tribunal’s findings that the NSW government can lease the Pilliga Forest for its 850-well coal seam gas mining project. Kerry Smith reports.

 

As capitalism’s inherent barbarism is being exposed via the West’s enabling of genocide in Gaza, organisers of the Ecosocialism 2025 conference are confident its program will attract significant interest. Jacob Andrewartha reports.

 

The campaign to establish a Richmond River Koala park is gaining momentum, with a coalition of local conservation groups pushing for NSW Labor to act on its promises. Kerry Smith reports.

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Given that renewable energy has become the cheapest energy source in recent years, it should be supplanting fossil fuels. But, as Brett Christopher points out in The Price is Wrong, contemporary neoliberal capitalism does not operate on such logic. Neville Spencer reviews Christopher’s book.

A catastrophic algal bloom — fuelled by warming oceans and calm marine conditions — is killing marine life on the shores of South Australia on an unprecedented scale. Tracey Carpenter reports.

First Nations people, unionists and environmental activists took their protest about Santos’ coal seam gas plans in the Pilliga Forest to NSW parliament, ahead of a decision by the Native Title Tribunal. Jim McIlroy reports.