Environment
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APEC Warns AI Will Double Electricity Demand by 2060
Electricity has always been the quiet utility in the background — flip a switch, don’t think too hard. Artificial intelligence has ended that arrangement....
Gas Reservation Policy Announced After Export Price Surge
“Reserve our gas” finally goes national Canberra, December 2025 — Australia has confirmed a federal domestic gas reservation policy after years of intense lobbying by...
Tennant Creek’s Climate-Smart, Culturally Safe Homes
A House Built the Right Way: Tennant Creek’s Climate-Smart, Culturally Safe Home Nears Completion Tennant Creek has seen many houses go up over the decades,...
Landscape photography in colonial Australia and New Zealand
Colonial history overflows with commodities. From the early 1800s, wool generated extraordinary wealth for squatters and pastoralists and substantial investment in the Australian colonies. In...
NSW Is Paying Millions to Log Forests That No Longer Exist
NSW is the Only State Paying to Destroy Its Own Forests The NSW Forestry Corporation’s native forest logging division has become the most expensive loss-making...
The Steel family of Newcastle and the suburb Jesmond
How Jesmond Was Founded by Coal, Convicts, and One Remarkable Family Most Australian suburbs begin with a surveyor’s line and a speculative estate map. Jesmond...
A New EPA, Old Fears: Australia’s Environment Laws Get a Makeover
A Long Time Coming: Australia Finally Confronts the Need to Fix Its Broken Environment Laws For a quarter of a century, Australia’s national environment law—the...
Gas Strategy Ignites Anger Over Beetaloo Pipeline Plan
Northern Territory Pipeline to Contention Was Rigged From the Start For Traditional Owners across the Northern Territory, the latest push to fast-track Beetaloo Basin gas...
“Made in USA” Isn’t the Food Safety Stamp It Used to Be
Buyer Beware: Why “Made in USA” Isn’t Always the Safety Stamp It Used to Be For decades, “Made in USA” carried the glow of trust....
OECD Warns of “Lost Momentum” as Global Gas Emissions Break Records
🌍 Climate Action Monitor 2025 reveals widening gap between promises and policy The latest OECD Climate Action Monitor 2025 lands like a thunderclap in...