ABC Environment

Mark Butler argues Australia remains disconnected from the dawning gravity of the social, economic and environmental threats of climate change.

India is touted as a rapid adopter of renewable energy, but its energy challenges are complex.

Yellow-footed rock wallabies bounce back in South Australia's northern pastoral region; we're cooking sausages in Cloncurry; making lunch at Helen Springs Station; and whipping up a duck-egg pavlova.

To avoid global warming becoming an unstoppable runaway process, Australia needs to be carbon neutral from mid-century. There’s just over thirty years for our electricity generation to be reconfigured away from fossil fuels and towards clean renewable sources.

To avoid global warming becoming an unstoppable runaway process, Australia needs to be carbon neutral from mid-century. There’s just over thirty years for our electricity generation to be reconfigured away from fossil fuels and towards clean renewable sources.

With farmland, industry, backyards and hobby farms as well as a city nearby, where do foxes choose to go? And will they choose to take a bait?

How toxic is the modern Australian city?

India is touted as a rapid adopter of renewable energy, but its energy challenges are complex.

Yellow-footed rock wallabies bounce back in South Australia's northern pastoral region; we're cooking sausages in Cloncurry; making lunch at Helen Springs Station; and whipping up a duck-egg pavlova.

Could the resurgence of an ancient philosophy turn China into an environmental superpower?

RN Drive filters fact from fiction from the week's biggest science news

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Data collected from an air pollution monitoring station in Tasmania is showing rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

The latest Climate of the Nation report shows strong support amongst Australians for renewable energy and frustration with current government policies.

Populations of the endangered black cockatoo have halved in five years, as pine plantations are cleared on the Northern Swan Coastal Plain.

The science is 150 years old and growing each day, yet it is still being rejected by politicians and some academics. We shall talk to some of those who remain unconvinced by climate research and its conclusions. Have they ever changed their minds? Do they perceive any risk at all? How can critics remain unmoved as the evidence mounts?

Shy Susan could be forgiven for feeling unloved. Her delicate pink flowers are easy to miss and her range is limited to the Beaconsfield area in northern Tasmania. This episode is selected from the Off Track archive.

Is it a good idea to rely on natural gas?

A group of the world's Ocean Elders led by marine biologist Dr. Sylvia Earle has written to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull calling on him to stop the Adani coal mine to demonstrate climate leadership and help save the Great Barrier Reef.