Climate calling

Climate calling

Make sense of the latest news about climate change and the environment, with reports and interviews from the SBS News team. Hear the story behind the headline.

Episodes

What's next for South Australia's algae bloom?

September 26, 2025 • 12 mins
South Australia's algal bloom continues to spread, leading to significant environmental, ecological and mental health harm. Those impacts have been heard at a Senate inquiry examining support arrangements for those affected, but also long-term prevention strategies.
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UN says millions of young people are being left behind

September 26, 2025 • 4 mins
Youth advocates from around the world have gathered at the UN headquarters in New York to participate in the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly. Their meeting marked the thirtieth anniversary of the World Programme of Action for Youth.
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Opinions divided on how to save our precious mountain ash forests

September 20, 2025 • 5 mins
New research has found Australia's heat-stressed forests are rapidly thinning, and could even be producing carbon emissions. It comes as the government prepares to release its 2035 emissions targets and a climate risk report later this month. But local researchers, politicians and Traditional Owner land groups remain divided on how to protect the forest.
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'Right plan for Australia': Government ministers defend 2035 climate target

September 19, 2025 • 6 mins
Climate advocates say the federal government's 2035 emissions reduction target falls "dangerously short", while the Coalition has said its plan is "grounded in fantasy land". Government ministers are now working to justify the target to the public and the community, as the Coalition is under pressure to outline their climate policy.
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Deep rifts widen further within Coalition under climate change pressure

September 16, 2025 • 5 mins
Liberal senator Jonathan Duniam has warned the Coalition will face a "mass exodus" from its frontbench if it adopts a net zero policy without caveats, handing Opposition leader Sussan Ley a fresh test over the party's stance on climate action. The warning comes a day after Liberal MP Andrew Hastie threatened to quit the party if it pursued a policy of net zero emissions by 2050.
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Australia's greatest threat: Not war, not terror, not pandemic... but the climate

September 2, 2025 • 7 mins
As the Coalition remains divided over net zero emission targets, former security leaders are warning the government that climate change poses an immediate national security threat.In the Senate, the Greens are pushing for the release of the National Climate Risk Assessment Report while Nationals Senator Matt Canavan is pushing ahead with a bill to repeal net zero.
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Spain prepares for future extreme weather after 'environmental catastrophe'

September 2, 2025 • 7 mins
After a summer in which much of western and southern Europe were impacted by catastrophic fires and searing heat, Spain now forming a plan to prepare for future disasters.Scientists say action is needed to reduce emissions and increase resilience, in the face of inevitable worsening conditions.
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Broad consensus offers hope of fixing 'broken' environment laws

August 26, 2025 • 7 mins
Environment Minister Murray Watt has announced an accelerated timeframe to improve Australia's 'broken' biodiversity and conservation laws. It comes after broad consensus emerged on the urgent need for reform at the government's economic roundtable. Labor is promising stronger environmental protections and faster project approvals - but it's not the first time.
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Unprecedented bleaching across WA's reefs from last year's marine heatwave

August 12, 2025 • 3 mins
Last summer's marine heat wave was the largest and most intense on record in Western Australia, says a new report from the Australian Institute of Marine Science. The sustained heat has caused unprecedented bleaching across Western Australia's reefs, with experts saying it could take months to uncover the full extent of the damage.
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Government told to be ambitious on emissions reduction: Coalition MPs say scrap the plans

July 29, 2025 • 3 mins
The government is under pressure from the United Nations and the crossbench to set an ambitious climate target. It comes as some coalition backbenchers are pushing for net zero to be scrapped all together.
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Embrace clean energy says UN climate chief: or put Australia's living standards at risk

July 28, 2025 • 3 mins
The UN's top climate diplomat is in Australia, and is urging Australia to aim high when it reveals its carbon emissions reduction target later this year. But it's an issue heavily coated in politics.... and not the only climate change related issue Australia is dealing with right now..
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Top court delivers landmark ruling on global obligations to curb climate change

July 24, 2025 • 8 mins
The International Court of Justice has delivered a historic ruling on international climate obligations, opening the door for possible reparations. After a lengthy campaign led by law students in Pacific Island nations, the world's top court has declared individual states have a legal duty to tackle climate change.
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Libraries usually like bookworms - but not these ones

July 19, 2025 • 5 mins
Hungary's oldest library is fighting a beetle infestation. The creatures have been found in a section of the 1,000 year-old Pannonhalma Archabbey library, housing around a quarter of the abbey's 400,000 volumes. It's prompted workers to pull tens of thousands of centuries-old books from the shelves of the mediaeval abbey in an effort to save them.
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Strong demand from Tuvalu for Australian residency as visa lottery closes

July 18, 2025 • 4 mins
280 Tuvalu citizens will be granted permanent residency each year as part of a landmark pact with Australia. But for some, the offer is bitter-sweet, as their island-home disappears.
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Love will keep driving us: Torres Strait Islander 'in shock' after landmark climate case dismissed

July 15, 2025 • 5 mins
The Federal Court has dismissed a landmark case which argued the federal government breached its duty of care to protect the Torres Strait Islands from climate change. The case, brought by Traditional Owners Uncle Pabai Pabai and Uncle Paul Kabai in 2021, argued the government held a duty of care to the Indigenous peoples and alleged that its failure to adequately reduce emissions has contributed to harm of their island communities...
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Not so sweet: explaining the impact of sugar substitutes on the environment

July 13, 2025 • 4 mins
Environmental researchers are calling for greater attention and potential regulation of artificial sweeteners, as they are building up in the environment and waterways around the world. A new study out of the University of Technology, Sydney [[UTS]] has found widely-used sugar substitutes are not decomposing and are turning into 'forever chemicals' that are comparable to P-FAS in the potential harm to animals and the ecosystem. P-F...
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'It's like a bomb has gone off': the algal bloom devastating SA marine life

July 11, 2025 • 10 mins
Toxic algae is taking over the waters off South Australia, with devastating consequences for marine life. It's also impacting the state's fisheries, and prompting fears of serious long-term effects.
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Study says the burning of fossil fuels responsible for 1,500 deaths

July 10, 2025 • 6 mins
A landmark study from Imperial College London has attributed 1,500 deaths during last week’s European heatwave directly to human-induced climate change. It's the first rapid attribution study to go beyond linking climate change to weather events, and instead ties it directly to human deaths.
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Thousands seek Australian climate visas as Tuvalu sinks

June 30, 2025 • 8 mins
More than one-third of the people in the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu, which scientists predict will be submerged by rising seas, have applied for a landmark climate visa to migrate to Australia. The visa is the result of a treaty between the two countries that seeks to support the island nation through climate change.
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Hello possums: authorities race to save new population of Leadbeaters found in NSW

June 20, 2025 • 8 mins
The Leadbeater's Possum can fit in the palm of your hand, and it has been presumed extinct twice. Now a new population has been discovered in New South Wales, and the race is on to protect it.
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