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Reporter with The Associated Press

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Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia delivers an address, during the COP26 Summit, at the SECC in Glasgow, Scotland, on Monday, Nov. 1, 2021. File photo by The Associated Press/Ian Forsyth/Pool

Australia dumps a pile of money into low emissions investment fund

Australia’s prime minister on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, launched a billion Australian dollar ($738 million) investment fund to fast-track emerging low emissions technologies including carbon capture and storage as he bolsters his government’s green credentials ahead of elections due within months.

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An electric car gets charged at a supermarket carpark in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. Photo by The Associated Press/Mark Baker

Australia introduces plan to boost electric car purchases

Australia’s prime minister on Tuesday, November 9, 2021, announced plans to encourage people to buy electric vehicles weeks after his government was accused at a U.N. conference in Scotland of being a laggard in fighting climate change.

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Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia at Singapore FinTech Festival. Photo by Eesan1969 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Australia challenges duty of care ruling to prevent future climate change

The Federal Court battle over a proposed coal mine expansion comes as Prime Minister Scott Morrison battles to persuade his conservative government colleagues to commit to a zero emissions target for Australia by 2050.

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In this undated photo provided by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, the Great Barrier Reef near the Whitsunday, Australia, region is viewed from the air. (Jumbo Aerial Photography/Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority via AP)

Australia dodges downgrade of Great Barrier Reef by UNESCO

Australia on Friday, July 23, 2021 garnered enough international support to defer an attempt by the United Nations’ cultural organization to downgrade the Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status because of damage caused by climate change.

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Australian Environment Minister Sussan Ley, left, speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, on Tuesday, June 22, 2021. Photo by Associated Press/Lukas Coch/AAP via AP

Australia challenges UN health downgrade for Great Barrier Reef

Australia said on Tuesday, June 21, 2021, it will fight against plans to downgrade the Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status due to climate change, while environmentalists have applauded the U.N. World Heritage Committee’s proposal.

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In this May 19, 2021, file photo, mice scurry around stored grain on a farm near Tottenham, Australia. File photo by The Associated Press/Rick Rycroft

Mouse invasion forces Australian prison evacuation

A plague of mice that has ravaged vast swathes of eastern Australia has forced the evacuation of a prison while authorities repair gnawed electrical wiring and clear dead and decaying mice from walls and ceilings.

Hank, a working dog turned mouser, drops a mouse he caught on a farm near Tottenham, Australia on May 19, 2021. Photo by: AP/Rick Rycroft

Marauding mice wipe out crops in Australia

2020 was Australia's 4th-hottest year

Australia sweltered through its fourth-hottest year on record last year despite the recent return of the usually cooling La Nina climate pattern, the nation’s weather bureau said on Friday, January 1, 2021.

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