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Tim Flannery

November 2019

  • Rainbow lorikeets

    Kevin Rudd, Thomas Keneally, Wendy Harmer, Tim Winton and others on their birds of the year

    From the punks of the bird world and a living fossil to a rabbit-killing raptor, Australia’s birds have attitude

September 2019

  • schoolchildren marching through Cambridge city centre during a climate change protest.

    The Conversation
    I now look back on my 20 years of climate activism as a colossal failure

    Tim Flannery for the Conversation
    The climate crisis is so severe the actions of the denialists are now an immediate threat to our children

March 2019

  • Professor Tim Flannery is one of Australia’s leading writers on climate change. An internationally acclaimed scientist, explorer and conservationist, Professor Flannery was named Australian of the Year in 2007.

    Tim Flannery: people are shocked about climate change but they should be angry

    The author and scientist, who has returned to his roots at the Australian Museum, says the world is about to see a major shift towards climate action

September 2018

  • Tim Flannery for Saturday Review.

    Energy policy captive to lobbyists and 'mad ideologues', Tim Flannery says

    Five years after the Climate Commission’s axing, its former head says there has been progress as well as setbacks

September 2016

  • Tim Flannery travels back to the Great Barrier Reef with the Climate Council after coral witnessing extensive coral bleaching in the area in May. Many of the previously bleached sections of the reef have now died.

    ‘It’s a depressing sight’: climate change unleashes ghostly death on Great Barrier Reef

  • Tim Flannery travels back to the Great Barrier Reef with the Climate Council after coral witnessing extensive coral bleaching in the area in May. Many of the previously bleached sections of the reef have now died.

    Tim Flannery returns to the Great Barrier Reef after coral bleaching – video

May 2016

  • coral bleaching off Lizard Island

    Saving Great Barrier Reef from climate change should be central election issue, says Tim Flannery

    Scientist says lack of attention to climate change is ‘staggering’ given it is Australia’s last chance ‘to close down coal-fired power stations and save the reef’

April 2016

  • The new species of rat found on Manus Island, Rattus detentus

    New species of Manus Island rat named after detainees in 'solidarity' gesture

    Team including Tim Flannery dub previously unknown species, which weighs nearly half a kilogram, Rattus detentus – Latin for ‘detained’

March 2016

  • Lake Hume in the Murray Darling Basin.

    Australian Climate Council calls for urgent action as records tumble

    Autumn brings no relief following a record-breaking summer driven by rapid global warming, the Climate Council report says

December 2015

  • The front of the Eiffel Tower bears the message 'Human Energy' as part of a light installation entitled 'Human Energy' by artist Yann Toma drawing attention to human-generated power, on the sidelines of the COP21 Climate Conference, in Paris, France, 06 December 2015. EPA/IAN LANGSDON

    Guardian Live
    Paris COP21: Can politics save the world? - Guardian Live event

  • A power-generating windmill turbine is seen on the Champs Elysees with the Arc de Triomphe in background.

    Science Weekly
    Are we on course to find the solution to Earth's energy crisis? - podcast

November 2015

  • The crowd listen to speeches at the Domain in Sydney, Australia, on 29 November 2015 as part of global climate marches in the lead-up to COP 21 in Paris.

    Tim Flannery: leaders now understand need to cut emissions 'hard and fast'

  • Giant tabular icebergs surrounded by ice floe drift in Vincennes Bay in the Australian Antarctic Territory

    Climate crisis: seaweed, coffee and cement could save the planet

July 2015

  • Roads can be seen intersecting drought-affected farming areas located in south-eastern Australia March 21, 2015. A report titled 'Thirsty Country: Climate change and drought in Australia' by the Australian research body the Climate Council, has argued in its latest paper that the probability of drought will increase, and it will become more severe, because of climate change. The crowdfunded body claimed that since the mid-1990s rainfall in south-east Australia had declined between 15 and 20 per cent, and due to a warming climate, rain across southern Australia had "shifted" further south increasing the risk of drought in south-east and south-west Australia. Picture taken March 21, 2015. REUTERS/David Gray animalgallery wiw

    Australia's post-2020 climate target will not be revealed until August

    Target had been expected this month, but Tony Abbott says policy must clear Coalition party room before it is unveiled

June 2015

  • The Bridled Nailtail Wallaby will be one of the species involved in a new project that will see native animals reintroduced to areas of New South Wales.

    Australian native mammals to be reintroduced to NSW after 100 years

    Designated national parks will be fenced off and feral animals exterminated to allow Bilbys, Numbats, and Western Barred Bandicoots to flourish

December 2014

  • Tim Flannery

    Australia books blog
    My first novel offered refuge from climate sceptics – and a new and powerful voice

    Tim Flannery
    Things can be said more directly in fiction than non-fiction – I escaped to an imaginary world but return re-energised to fight for a better climate future

September 2014

  • Angela Green, Angela Dennis, Samah Ahmed and Josina Calliste at the People's Climate March in London. Credit: James Randerson/Guardian

    People's Climate March: thousands demand action around the world - as it happened

    Tens of thousands of people across 150 countries will take to the streets to march for global action on climate change. Dubbed the ‘People’s Climate March,’ it has been flagged as the biggest global call-to-action on climate change in history. The Guardian reports on the events from around the world

August 2014

  • Maurice Newman

    Global cooling: climate scientists keen to meet Tony Abbott's business adviser

    Tim Flannery accuses Maurice Newman, who does not have a scientific background, of using his position for ‘personal crusade’

July 2014

  • George Christensen

    Climate change 'hysteria' like a sci-fi movie, Coalition MP tells fellow sceptics

    George Christensen uses Waterworld and Star Trek slides to illustrate his point at a gathering in Las Vegas

March 2014

  • Tim Flannery

    Tim Flannery says coal communities are being kept in dark about dangers

    Climate scientist wants the inquiry into the health effects of wind turbines to also look at mines and fires
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