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There are more than 850 different species of eucalypts in Australia, and possibly many more we don’t know about.
In the event, the federal election turned out to be more about the economy than the environment. But there are steps the Coalition government can take to help conservation and boost the economy too.
Water in Sydney is far cheaper than in Melbourne, and residents take full advantage of it.
A new movie highlights the importance of radical hope and courageous action in responding to the climate crisis
For several years, emissions of CFCs have been rising, in apparent defiance of a global ban in place since 2010. A new global detective effort has traced the source to two eastern Chinese provinces.
The Queensland Labor government still must approve two outstanding environmental management plans for the Adani mine to go ahead.
The Western Australian coral reefs may not be as well known as the Great Barrier Reef, but they’re just as large and diverse. And they too have been devastated by cyclones and coral bleaching.
Far more megafauna species use coastal wetlands than we thought. And it affects the way we need to address the extinction crisis.
Removing human-related methane from the atmosphere could reduce global warming by 15%.
A global research effort is targeting inherited disorders in dogs.
What makes people more likely to trust a climate change message? If it looks too corporate, it’s more likely to fail.
Now that the Coalition has won the federal election, how will it meet its campaign promises on taxes, the environment, education, health and infrastructure?
What if Bob Hawke, hailed as a leader who actually ‘got’ environmental issues, had never been rolled by Paul Keating? Perhaps the climate policy wars would have turned out differently.
Stockwellia has links back to the epoch before Australia separated into its own continent and was mostly covered in rainforest.
The entire Cocos (Keeling) Island group is a little more than twice the size of the Melbourne CBD. So it’s hard to envision 414 million debris items washed up there.
Voters disagree on importance of climate change, universally dislike current energy and environment policy.
Here are the promises and policies of the Coalition, Labor, the Greens, One Nation and more.
Everything you need to know – where it is, the environmental impact, Indigenous land rights issues and actual profitability – of the Adani Carmichael coal mine in one simple interactive.
Australia’s frustrating policy deadlock shows a lack of vision, encouraged by nasty short-term politics.
Nation-wide climate legislation would not only help reduce our carbon emissions, but also boost economic growth.
Australia hasn’t done much planning to prepare for the shift away from coal. But it’s not too late to learn from international experiences.
Transitioning to renewable energy will cost us something, but the benefits far outweigh the price.
It would take 17 days to respond to an oil spill in the Great Australian Bight. And that’s the best-case scenario.
One thing I can tell you is that a snail’s bottom is right over its head.