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The frontline: Australia and the climate emergency

From extreme heat to warming seas, Australia is experiencing the effects of the global climate crisis more rapidly than much of the world. The frontline shows what ground zero looks like for everyday Australians 

  • The Frontline live blog: a dead tree on a drought-hit property. Guardian Australia readers can email or tweet their questions about the climate emergency to our expert panel.

    The Frontline: experts answer your questions on the impacts of the climate emergency – as it happened

    To mark the end of The Frontline series a panel of experts answer your questions about the crisis and how it is affecting Australia
  • Winemakers Justin and Pip Jarrett, Orange, New South Wales

    How the climate crisis is changing Australia's wine industry

  • Australian Bushfire Coverage<br>CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 05: (AUSTRALIA OUT): Visitors to Parliament House are forced to wear face masks after smoke from bushfires blankets Canberra in a haze with hazardous air quality on January 5, 2020 in Canberra, Australia. (Photo by Alex Ellinghausen/The SMHFairfax Media via Getty Images)

    From grape to grain: how a warming climate is changing what we eat and drink

  • Glowing orange sky over burning forest in NSW

    Australia on the frontline: ask an expert about climate change and its effects

    Your chance to put questions to climate scientists and academics as well as experts on controlling bushfires
  • Kangaroos running in desert.<br>Four kangaroos running at sunrise in hot desert.  Red centre of Australia.

    Killer heat: how a warming land is changing Australia forever

    Australia is heating faster than the global average, and extreme heat days are on the rise. Doctors say there’s clear evidence that it’s killing people prematurely
  • Composite of a diver in a kelp forest, and a diver over a barren sea bed

    The dead sea: Tasmania's underwater forests disappearing in our lifetime

  • A diver  in a kelp forest at Munro Bight, Tasmania, in July 2012. In 2020 not much is left.

    What happens when the oceans heat up?

  • A swimmer jumps in the water as smoke haze from bushfires in New South Wales blankets Sydney, Australia, 19 December 2019.

    The toxic air we breathe: the health crisis from Australia's bushfires

    For months, Australians breathed air pollution up to 26 times above levels considered hazardous to human health. The long-term impact could be devastating
  • Australia Endures The Worst Drought On Record<br>Dozens of towns across Australia are running out of water thanks to a prolonged drought. Some families are paying hundreds of dollars a month to truck in supplies.

    A climate emergency: what happens when the taps run dry?

  • Fleur and Lockie Magick Dennis in Wellington, NSW

    The unequal cost of the drought

  • A fire fighter at the fire near Canungra, Queensland 5 September 2019.

    Living in the climate emergency: Australia's new fire zone

    In this first episode of The Frontline, a new series that shows how everyday Australians are already living with the climate crisis, we go inside the new fire zone: areas of Australia that used to be too wet to burn
  • Pictured: Shelley Tratham-Webb (37) and daughter Pearl (4) on the bus owned by the Oliver and Shelley Tratham-Webb, who have been living in the bus since evacuating their home in Nethercote on New Year's Eve, six days ago. They are living aboard the bus, which is parked by the ocean, near Eden's wharf, with their three children, Pearl Trantham-Webb (4), Aster Trantham-Webb (6) and Aria Carrol (18), as well as three dogs, a cat and four chicks. Today, Sunday, January 5, the fire came within a couple of kilometres of Eden, destroying several properties along the way. Hundreds of residents of surrounding towns and properties had descended on the wharf in recent days after evacuating from areas in the path of the fire. Many of the same residents were then told today to evacuate to safer ground further north as the fire approached from the south.

    Counting the cost of the bushfires: Australia's summer of dread

    Australia’s catastrophic bushfire season has taken 33 lives, destroyed thousands of homes and devastated the country’s unique wildlife. Guardian Australia surveys the damage
  • The writer Alexis Wright in Australia. Photo by Meredith O’Shea for the Guardian. 1 Septmber 2017.

    We all smell the smoke, we all feel the heat. This environmental catastrophe is global

    Alexis Wright
    Governments of the world need to act. It’s time to speak to our planet with kindness before it’s too late
  • Richard Flanagan

    I'm willing to go to jail to stop Adani and save our beloved country. Will you stand with me?

    Richard Flanagan
    In this anti-Adani rally speech, novelist Richard Flanagan says the fight against the Carmichael coalmine defines the fight against the climate crisis
  • Two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef was hit by back-to-back mass coral bleaching.

    Our leaders are ignoring global warming to the point of criminal negligence. It's unforgivable

    Tim Winton
    Humanity survived the cold war because no one pushed the button. On climate change, the button has been pushed again and again
  • Lenore Taylor

    Enough scandalous time-wasting on climate change. Let's get back to the facts

    Lenore Taylor
    At this point of crisis we must bypass rhetoric and political posturing
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