Western Advocate
Monday, 4 December 2023
How to save money and the planet by making your home energy efficient
Young and Regional
Leith and Hugo Thomas are trying to make their house in Ballarat, Victoria more energy efficient to keep heating costs down and reduce their carbon footprint. Picture by Adam Trafford
Ellie Mitchell
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Young and Regional
Climate refugees 'inevitable' for Australia, UN says
Soofia Tariq
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Inundation on Boigu Island in the Torres Strait. Picture 350 Australia
Young and Regional
The rise of native grass bread
Tim Piccione
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Flat breads made from ganalay or Mitchell grass harvested at Yumburra in Victoria. Picture supplied
Young and Regional
Plight of the platypus: biodiversity under threat from climate change
Duncan Bailey
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A platypus in the wild. Picture by Amy Northwood, Australian Conservation Foundation
Young and Regional
Disaster house: the new homes for Australia's flooded, fiery future
Rosie Bensley
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Greg Webb at the remains of his home in Lake Conjola on the NSW south coast in February 2020 after the Black Summer bushfires. Picture by Adam McLean
Young and Regional
Two vanishing beach markers expose $200b national threat
James Tugwell, Ethan Hamilton and Ruby Pascoe
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An Australian National University research team performs monthly readings of the erosion Bengello Beach on the NSW south coast using star pickets. Picture supplied.
Young and Regional
Fleeing disaster: how climate change will decide where we live
Ellie Mitchell
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Lachlan Hamilton and Hanna McCreath at their pig farm at Beechworth in north-east Victoria. Picture supplied
Young and Regional
'200 days above 40 degrees': climate health warning
James Tugwell and William Huynh
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GP Dr Michelle Hamrosi, pictured with her three children in their NSW south coast home, is worried about the health of the world they will inherit. Picture by James Tugwell
Young and Regional
Aboriginal land, bushfire knowledge ignored at Australia's climate peril: experts
Tim Piccione
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River Cavanagh, 10, burning on Truwana country, Cape Barron Island in Tasmania, has taken part in cultural burns with mum Rachael most of her life. Picture supplied
Young and Regional
How climate change hurts your hip pocket (especially if you're poor)
Ellie Mitchell
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ACOSS program director Kellie Caught. Picture supplied
Young and Regional
Saving thy neighbour: the rise of community disaster response
Rosie Bensley
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A bushfire burnt Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park in the Margaret River region of WA in late 2021. Picture by Blocksidge, Wallcliffe Volunteer Bushfire Brigade
Young and Regional
Silent flight: one man's dream to electrify Australian airports
Samantha Ferguson
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Pilot Korum Ellis uses a charging station at Murrayfield airport near Mandurah in Western Australia's Peel region to recharge his electric aeroplane. Picture by Samantha Ferguson
Young and Regional
Potholes, landslides: councils ill-equipped to manage climate change
Ruby Pascoe
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Eastern-Peake Road at Mount Bolton in Victoria's Central Highlands was shredded by floodwaters in October 2022. Picture by Nickolas Bird
Real Australia
Leaders, keep regional Australia front of mind at COP27
Ellie Mitchell
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From drought to floods: The climate disaster is already here for regional Australia. File picture
Real Australia
From disaster rises hope
Saffron Howden
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People waded through water and move through the streets of Lismore in NSW on boats during the 2022 flood events. Picture by Cathy Adams