Oliver Milman

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• Business Council: CEOs accountable for failure to promote women

  6 Nov 2013: ‘Low representation of women in senior levels of management cannot continue,’ says BCA president Tony Shepherd

• Carbon emissions must be cut ‘significantly’ by 2020, says UN report

  5 Nov 2013: Failure will mean greater costs and risks and pathway to limiting temperature rise to under 2C will close fast

• Carbon pricing most cost-effective way to reduce carbon emissions, says OECD

  5 Nov 2013: Study finds cost of alternatives such as feed-in tariffs, industry regulation and subsidies can be ‘substantially higher’

• Giant, carnivorous platypus with sharp teeth surprises scientists

  4 Nov 2013:

  Extinct species identified in north-west Queensland reveals an entirely unknown branch of the monotreme's evolution

• Green groups explore legal action to halt massive Queensland coalmine

  4 Nov 2013: Environmentalists claim Kevin’s Corner mine will damage groundwater supplies and contribute to climate change

• BHP Billiton scraps plans for new coal port at Abbot Point in Queensland

  3 Nov 2013: Company is also abandoning a proposed rail line that would have taken coal from the mines

• Delegates frustrated as talks to create huge Antarctic marine reserves fail

  1 Nov 2013:

  Russia, Ukraine and China scupper plans to protect 'last intact ocean ecosystem on earth'

• Anti-windfarm group appoints retired Liberal MP as government lobbyist

  31 Oct 2013: Alby Schultz goes into battle against wind energy, saying it’s ‘one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated' on Australians

• Tony Abbott defends credentials on science despite lack of minister

  30 Oct 2013: PM promises investment in health research and longer grant tenure, as statistician Terry Speed wins top science prize

• One third of Australia's media coverage rejects climate science, study finds

  30 Oct 2013: An academic study has found that 32% of articles dismissed or questioned the link between human activity and climate change

• Disadvantaged young people face 'life sentence of poverty and exclusion'

  29 Oct 2013:

  Education report finds stagnation in literacy and numeracy skills among secondary pupils in lower socio-economic groups

• Tree fellers apologise for causing deaths and horrific injuries to koalas

  29 Oct 2013: Australian Bluegum Plantations admits about 30 koalas were injured, some fatally, in its tree-felling operations in western Victoria

• Australia should cut carbon emissions by at least 25% by 2020, says report

  28 Oct 2013: Target of 5% not enough, based on warming ceiling of 2C and Australia’s ‘fair share’ of global carbon budget

• A week is a long time in Australian climate change politics

  25 Oct 2013: Two people died, flora and fauna were decimated and hundreds of homes lost in NSW, but the firestorm didn’t end there

• My best Beyoncé impression: visit to Brunswick sparks a wave of imitators

  25 Oct 2013: When a superstar is photographed braving chilly Melbourne in a leotard, social media springs into action

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