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The tiny forest at Teralba Public School, Lake Macquarie, on planting  in May 2024 (right) and November 2025 (left).

How forests the size of tennis courts transform Australian cities

You’ve heard of tiny homes, but what about tiny forests? It’s a growing movement in Australia, based on Japanese ideas.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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Graham Palmer is a 79-year-old renter in Ringwood who has been trying to get solar panels installed in his four unit block to save on power, but has been blocked by investor owners.

‘We’ve been left out’: The home owners locked out of cheap energy

Some Victorians who are keen to electrify their homes are unable to do so as easily as their neighbours.

  • Caroline Zielinski
CSIRO’s modelling has been used to predict the impact of climate change on Australia and its neighbours.

‘Worst thing I’ve ever seen’: CSIRO slashes climate modelling jobs

Australia’s science agency is cutting more than 100 jobs in its Environment Research Unit, which critics say will crush our capacity to predict climate change.

  • Bianca Hall
Electric Vehicle sales have delivered a significant turnaround in the nation’s progress towards its climate targets.

The controversial tax break driving down carbon emissions for the first time since COVID

The rising popularity of EVs has reversed a stubborn trend in the nation’s pollution.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood years of second best climate policy continues to weigh on the economy and greenhouse gas reduction.

Australians bearing the brunt of ‘second-best’ climate plans

One of the nation’s leading economists says Australians are paying the price for a political class that is “far from brave” when it comes to climate policy.

  • Shane Wright
Australian summers are hot, but not all homes are designed for the heat.

How to cool your home in summer, from cheap, small steps to a full reno

Many Australian homes are not built for hot days, but there are small choices that can make a big difference in the heat.

  • Shona Hendley
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Sea Forest founder and CEO Sam Elsom at the company’s site in Triabunna, Tasmania.

Move over AI, seaweed is the new wonder product

One type of seaweed cuts methane emissions and fattens cattle and another has natural polymers that behave like plastic.

  • Simon Johanson
Type One Energy says its magnet stellarator will produce clean energy.

This tech could solve all of Australia’s energy woes. There’s just one teensy problem

A nuclear fusion company building a reactor in America is targeting Australia for international expansion and says it could have a plant up and running here by the middle of next decade.

  • Liam Mannix
Meg O’Neill.

Trump wants to ‘drill, baby, drill’. This Australian giant is happy to help

Oil and gas giant Woodside is expanding in the US under its American chief executive. Over brunch in New York, Meg O’Neill explains why she thinks the climate conversation has fundamentally changed.

  • Michael Koziol
Actor Zac Efron (R) has engaged environmental activist Joost Bakker to design his off-grid home.

How Zac Efron is transforming an Aussie bush block with an unlikely material

The Hollywood star’s brief for his “greenhouse” home was for a residence that will sit lightly on the earth.

  • Alice Uribe