Environment
Extreme global weather prompts fears about the hot summer to come
How best to manage extreme heat is becoming a problem for cities around the world. In parts of the northern hemisphere, the body can’t function properly.
- by Laura Chung
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Moon rocks and management marked a meteoric career
John Lovering was a prominent scientist who made a huge contribution to human knowledge of meteorites, lunar rocks and geochemistry and became the adviser to the media coverage of the NASA lunar landing.
- by Lynne Selwood and William Birch
July 2023 named as hottest month on record
Europe's Copernicus Climate Change Service has declared July 2023 was Earth's hottest month on record.
Opinion
Pets
The dog days of climate change are coming for your pets
If you don’t put sunscreen on the tips of your cats’ ears just yet, rising temperatures mean you might soon have to.
- by Edward Narayan
‘We can’t ignore this problem any more’: Aerial shooting of feral horses reconsidered
The NSW government is reassessing a proposal to kill feral horses from the air after their populations in the Kosciuszko National Park boomed.
- by Laura Chung
Australia was stripped bare by feral animals. This sanctuary is reversing decades of damage
Like stepping inside a time machine, Newhaven in the Northern Territory offers a glimpse of Australia before Europeans arrived.
- by Nick O'Malley and Nick Moir
Power outages in Western Australia after night of wild weather
Trees felled and power outages in Western Australia after night of wild weather.
Explainer
Renewables
The magnetic appeal of induction cooktops (plus other ways to go electric)
With gas now on the nose, householders are switching to green electricity. Where do you start? And how far can you go?
- by Angus Holland