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2019 was the driest year in Australia’s recorded history. In places like Euchareena in the central west of NSW, water has become so scarce the only option has been to truck it in. But this comes with a serious cost that many can’t afford to pay. In this episode of Full Story we hear from

From climate change to the budget, we see politicians pretend they think something then do the opposite You don’t need to observe politics for too long before realising that hypocrisy is the natural scent of the politics. It is a stench that pervades much of what is said and policy that is enacted. There are

The Future We Choose, a new book by the architects of the Paris climate accords, offers contrasting visions for how the world might look in thirty years (read the worst case scenario here) • Christiana Figueres, author: ‘This is the decade and we are the generation’ It is 2050. We have been successful at halving

Osama bin Laden masterminded the attack on Manhattan’s World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and US military preparations for a possible invasion of Iraq began almost immediately thereafter.  In February of the following year, Donald Rumsfeld, the United States Secretary of Defense, gave a press briefing.  Rumsfeld was asked to comment on reports that

IEA welcomes appointment of Alok Sharma but others worry about nature of his dual role Boris Johnson must put the climate crisis at the top of his government’s agenda if crunch UN talks this year are to be a success, leading international figures have told the Guardian. Alok Sharma was appointed on Thursday as the

If you were a political scientist, you might wonder if some of these internal differences within the major parties are irreconcilable I’ll get to the divisions on coal and climate afflicting both of the major parties shortly, but before we arrive there I want to ask a bigger question about disunity, one I’ve been carrying

Although sustainability science and social-ecological systems research pursue very similar goals, i.e., generate problem- and solution-oriented knowledge to foster sustainability transformation, they partly apply different research approaches and use different key concepts. Our aim is to identify archetypes of sustainability transformation research derived for sustainability science and social-ecological systems research that make knowledge from the