Arnold Schwarzenegger has for the first time told about his 1996 affair – and the bombshell moment he had to tell his wife he had a son with housekeeper Mildred Baena. In new Netflix documentary Arnold, the Terminator star says his “heart stopped” when his then wife Maria Shriver confrontedContinue Reading
If you thought the temperatures this month were a little chillier than normal, your feelings are spot on. May 2023 was, as meteorologists might say, really cold. In fact, more than 100 weather stations across Australia have registered their coldest May minimum temperatures on record – with regular frosts, snowfall,Continue Reading
Futurists have painted a bleak picture for the world’s culinary scene, predicting food will be sourced from underwater farms and artificial intelligence by 2049 if climate change isn’t taken seriously. At a warehouse nestled in the centre of Melbourne’s Southbank, design and architecture students from Swinburne University have delivered aContinue Reading
Darwin. Broome. Port Hedland. These significant Australian economic centres risk being uninhabitable within 70 years, a new report warns. Government inaction and corporate disinformation have the world on track for an average temperature increase of 2.7C by 2100, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in March. Now aContinue Reading
Rome’s Trevi Fountain has been turned black. Climate activists in Italy poured a vegetable-based carbon liquid into the famous fountain that millions of people visit every year about 11.30am on Sunday, local time and chanted “our country is dying”. Photos showed the protesters standing in the fountain’s dark water withContinue Reading
A key meeting between three world leaders and Australia’s prime minister will be held on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Japan. Anthony Albanese touched down in Japan on Friday as a guest for the three-day talks in Hiroshima between some of the world’s most powerful countries. The annualContinue Reading
Climate protesters have brought Adelaide’s streets to a standstill after abseiling off the side of a bridge while rallying against a fossil fuel conference. A group from Extinction Rebellion gathered around protester Meme Thorne, 69, as she suspended herself from the side of the Morphett St bridge, bringing traffic andContinue Reading
A beloved native Australian animal has returned to one state’s national park after 50 years of local extinction. In a collaborative project between NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Taronga Conservation Society Australia, UNSW Sydney and WWF-Australia, five female platypus have been released into the Royal National Park. Four maleContinue Reading
Smoke from Australia’s devastating Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 may have contributed to the onset of a rare triple La Niña responsible for major flooding events of the past few years — a new study published in the journal Science Advances. The study, led by researchers at the National CenterContinue Reading
For a Government that has promised to take action on climate change and environmental protection after a “decade of neglect” by the Coalition, Labor’s second budget has left experts and advocates bitterly disappointed. Although this budget was always expected to prioritise cost of living relief, there was hope that –Continue Reading