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.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 6 minutes
- Episodes
- 168
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Climate inaction by governments ruled to be a human rights violation
In a landmark ruling...Europe’s top human rights court has found the Swiss government is not doing enough to combat climate change. Experts say it could unleash a new wave of climate litigation. The …
00:04:42 |
Wed 10 Apr 2024
INTERVIEW: Patricia Scotland warns some Pacific Island countries may disappear
The Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland is raising the alarm about disappearing Pacific Islands, and the potential for larger Commonwealth nations to become the new homes for climate ref…
00:15:00 |
Tue 09 Apr 2024
Farmers switch to 'natural' farming methods for resilience to extreme weather
Farmers in India say using biofertilisers instead of artificial chemicals helps the plants to survive storms, flooding and dry weather.
00:05:33 |
Tue 09 Apr 2024
When the river runs dry: megadroughts on the cards in Australia, new report warns
Australia could soon see megadroughts that last for more than 20 years, new modelling suggests. The bleak research from the Australian National University and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate…
00:06:41 |
Thu 04 Apr 2024
New mass bleaching event underway on Great Barrier Reef
Weeks of above-average temperatures have taken a toll on the Great Barrier Reef, as scientists confirm at least two-thirds of the reef is experiencing another mass bleaching. With coral bleaching eve…
00:04:28 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
Australia experiencing 'climate whiplash', new report shows
While 2023 was the hottest year on record for the planet, for Australia, it was a year of all extremes. Australia experienced its warmest winter ever, with a contrast of summer weather patterns seen …
00:04:08 |
Thu 08 Feb 2024
Plastic not so fantastic for environmental experts, as recycling falls flat
Australians consume 3.8 million tonnes of plastic every year, causing serious harm to wildlife, marine ecosystems and human life. New research from the Australia Institute suggests that taxing plasti…
00:05:39 |
Fri 12 Jan 2024
Record rain washes away forecast of long hot summer
The declaration of an El Nino weather system last Spring prompted warnings of a summer of heatwaves and widespread bushfires. Instead, residents and emergency services in Australia's east have conten…
00:04:52 |
Fri 12 Jan 2024
Calls for planning changes intensify as flooding events worsen
Extreme floods have been leaving people homeless and resulting in casualties across Australia. Experts say this could be the result of failures to adapt flood planning to environmental changes.
00:05:07 |
Thu 11 Jan 2024
Rains moving on for now in Victoria - but flooding risk remains
Some Victorian communities remain under threat from floodwaters with more homes expected to be inundated. As clean up efforts begin in some regional towns, the flood threat remains active at Murchiso…
00:05:03 |
Wed 10 Jan 2024
The tiny Australians that pack a poisonous punch
From bluebottles, to octopi, and jellyfish of all shapes and sizes, there are many creatures in Australia's coastal waters that cause stings or - in a few rare cases - death, for those unlucky enough…
00:07:39 |
Wed 10 Jan 2024
2023 turns up the heat - and Australia could feel the burn
Earth last year shattered annual heat records, flirted with the world’s agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of a feverish planet. The European climate agency Copernicus says the world…
00:05:43 |
Tue 09 Jan 2024
Queensland announces tourism relief package as disaster cleanup unfolds
The Queensland government says the recovery from natural disasters in the state's far north and southeast will cost more than two billion dollars. Premier Steven Miles has announced a multi-million-d…
00:04:47 |
Sat 06 Jan 2024
Cleaning up after storm onslaughts
A massive cleanup is underway in south-east Queensland after a series of storms lashed the region. Rain has finally eased allowing the recovery effort to begin in earnest, with about 50 Australian De…
00:05:48 |
Thu 04 Jan 2024
Change Agents: School project turns into environmental charity
We often hear about society's high achievers, but there are others in our community working as role models of change. Kurt Jones is the founder of Coexist. What started as a high school assignment ha…
00:07:37 |
Tue 02 Jan 2024
What does the historic 'Loss and Damage Fund' agreed for climate-stricken small nations mean?
For the first time, nations have agreed to set up a mechanism where wealthier nations pay poorer nations for the severe climate change impacts they're experiencing like rising sea levels and extreme …
00:11:31 |
Mon 01 Jan 2024
Communities urged to work together in the face of wild weather
Australia is bracing for another summer of unpredictable weather, as thunderstorms and fires have already hit parts of the country. Climate scientists, health practitioners and disaster responders wa…
00:08:27 |
Thu 28 Dec 2023
Climate change defined as existential threat to humans in 2023
Climate change has again been at the forefront of the news throughout 2023. SBS looks back on how the world has been dealing with the issue over the last 12 months.
00:11:27 |
Sat 23 Dec 2023
Crocodile captured in floodwaters as north Queensland remains deluged
Authorities have picked up a 2.5 metre saltwater crocodile found swimming in the north Queensland town of Ingham after a creek burst its banks. Ingham has been cut-off both to the north and south, on…
00:04:07 |
Mon 18 Dec 2023
COP28 reaches agreement - but is it enough?
An historic deal has been made by almost 200 countries at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai. After days of tense negotiations, the agreement offers a plan to keep the target of 1.5 degrees C…
00:04:50 |
Thu 14 Dec 2023
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