Environment
The snow storm that could save the NSW ski season
There are sighs of relief echoing across the Snowy Mountains as snow falls for the first time in weeks, but bookings are still down as much as 40 per cent on last year.
- by Catherine Naylor
Latest
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
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