Climate change news headlines

Researchers in South Korea say they've developed a new way to make lab-grown meat taste like the real deal. It may look like a transparent, bubble gum pink-coloured disc, but scientists hope it could revolutionise the meat on people's plates.

The Danish dairy industry broadly welcomed the agreement and its goals, but it has angered some farmers.

Australia urgently needs to increase the amount of solar and wind to meet its energy needs in the coming decades.

Matt Kean has been appointed to lead the Climate Change Authority, less than a week after announcing his resignation from state politics.

Saudi officials say the vast majority of the dead were unauthorised pilgrims who could not seek shelter.

Two climate activists have been arrested after cutting through a fence at a London airport and spray-painting private jets orange.

"Instead of Snow White and the seven dwarves, this is Peter Dutton and the seven nuclear reactors," Anthony Albanese.

The insect is hoped to consume and turn about 600 tonnes of food scraps into fertiliser and animal feed.

New research by NRMA Insurance found 80 per cent of Australians surveyed have concerns about the nation's changing climate.

One list circulating online suggested at least 550 people died as temperatures reached up to 47 degrees.

The latest act by Just Stop Oil was quickly condemned by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as a "disgraceful act of vandalism".

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has told Opposition Leader Peter Dutton she will not be negotiating on a nuclear power plant in the state.

The opposition won't reveal how much they'll cost, sparking fierce criticism from the government.

The impact on the Great Barrier Reef of extending coal-mining operations in NSW - some 1500km away - is the subject of a brewing Federal Court battle.

The zone will see wind turbines at sea generate 2.9 gigawatts of reliable renewable power.

Authorities in Greece closed down the Acropolis in Athens during the afternoon for a second day on Thursday (Friday AEST) as the country swelters under unseasonably high temperatures.

As far as records go, the Black Summer fires were unprecedented in their scale and ferocity. But a new discovery tells a different story.

The opposition leader today ruled out providing any detail on what goal a Liberal-National government would pursue instead of the 43 per cent cut by 2030.

Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has promised that if elected, the Coalition would scrap the Government's target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 43 per cent before 2030.

The planet just marked a "shocking" new milestone, enduring 12 consecutive months of unprecedented heat, according to new data.

The report was cited in a sweeping speech about the threat of climate change by UN Secretary-General António Guterres to mark World Environment Day.

The ski season kicks off this weekend to sparse coverage and closed runs, but it's just a taste of what's to come, according to dire new modelling.

About 5.6 million properties are threatened but only 29 per cent of Australians are aware of that risk.

The activist was detained after sticking a protest sign on a Monet painting, calling for action to protect food supplies from further damage to the climate.

Winter is just about upon us, but that doesn't necessarily mean temperatures are about to start plummetting – although you might have to reach for an umbrella.

The world's widest glacier could be even more vulnerable to melting than previously thought, new research suggests.

Australia was one of only a few places on Earth's surface that were cooler than average last month

There were no immediate reports of injuries, although officials said one person on the barge was knocked into the water and quickly rescued.

The boiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the northern hemisphere in more than 2,000 years, a new study found.

It's the equivalent of taking 7800 cars off the road but scientists warn it's not enough, and could even be a distraction.

At least 270 million people in one country are at risk of losing it all - and it's not just from climate change.

Painstaking research has shown the shocking extent to which bleaching is killing coral on the iconic reef.

It's only the fourth global bleaching ever recorded but the second in the past ten years.

Much of Australia is likely in for one of the warmest winters on record, the weather bureau has predicted.

A landmark European decision will "inspire" Australian climate change campaigners, a legal expert believes, as activists increasingly hit the courts to force change.

The "win for everyone" could be a landmark moment in the fight against climate change.

The climate change activist was detained in the Netherlands amid a protest at The Hague.

Decades-long "megadroughts" could hit Australia, including our biggest agricultural region, in the near future as climate change continues to worsen severe weather conditions.

Scientists in South Korea have announced a new world record for the length of time they sustained temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius - seven times hotter than the sun's core.

While human-made climate change has spurred more erratic weather globally, there is something else parching southern Africa this year.

Surging global temperatures caused by climate change are going to increase food inflation by up to 3.2 per cent per year in a decade.

More than a billion people from one region of Earth risk dying years earlier than they should due to foul air.

Record-smashing increases in temperatures, greenhouse gases and sea water acidification aren't being stopped.

The rental truck was driven onto the middle of the bridge and blocked three lanes of traffic on the major Melbourne thoroughfare for more than two hours.

New research has shown the searing conditions many renters are living in during summer.

Climate change protesters marched through Melbourne's CBD, demanding the federal government declare a climate emergency.

The protesters have caused mayhem over the past week, marching through the city, blocking major roadways and disrupting tram and bus services.

A climate protester who used a truck to block lanes on a major freeway during peak hour, forcing a woman to give birth on the side of the road, has been freed in time for another major protest.

Motorists were furious over the disruption today, with one driver telling 9News, it was "ridiculous".

Aerial surveys revealed "prevalent shallow water coral bleaching" that was consistent with heat stress built up over summer.