Humans and animals can hide from extreme heat. But plants have no escape. To protect our crops from the heat to come will likely mean modifying them.
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Environment – Analysis and Comment
Once sold as ‘penny turtles’ around Australia, the Mary River turtle’s plight galvanised local community efforts to save it from extinction.
Building ecological grief literacy in workplaces can help environmental professionals manage constant exposure to the many causes of their grieving.
Walking is a common way of getting around in most African cities
A clever approach to restoring Australia’s native oyster and mussel reefs in Queensland’s Moreton Bay is catching on, giving community groups a way to get involved in their local patch.
It was once a gross industrial sewer. But decades of work has turned Merri Creek into a green ribbon in Melbourne’s north.
Environmental success depends on social connections. So if you want to start a new group, you need to think about the people as much as the problem.
How long will it take for electric vehicles to cut emissions and improve air in our cities? Longer than we think – because petrol and diesel make up almost all of the fleet.
The public is largely open to moving away from fossil fuel use for residential heating and hot water.
Corporations have an incentive to make profits – even if their products hurt or even kill people. Here’s how to stop history repeating.
Can the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) help replace traditional growth measures like GDP?
Protect wildlife to promote better mental health.
Among the poisons found in 36% of the frogs tested, rodenticide was detected for the first time. Pesticides are considered a threat to hundreds of amphibian species.
It shouldn’t take sustained public outrage to stop environmentally destructive projects. Nature positive offers us a way forward.
Sustainability reporting isn’t about producing marketing material. It’s an opportunity for companies to honestly share the risks of doing business and present an action plan for addressing them.
In Australia, the taxpayer has footed the bill for the forever chemical clean-up so far. But this will have to change.
Four years of persistent ozone holes have sparked concern about what more UV is doing to Antarctic ecosystems.
The more plastic, the more waste we produce. It sounds simple, but this discovery could help us find ways of ending plastic pollution.
All the evidence – colonial accounts and records, First Peoples’ testimony and scientific data – points to the existence of widespread tall, dense forests 250 years ago.
The 2023 megafires burnt more than 84 million hectares of desert and savannah in northern Australia. That’s larger than the whole of NSW, or more than three times size of the UK.
We compiled maps of bushfires and prescribed burns in southern Australia from 1980 to 2021 to see how fire activity is changing habitat for 129 threatened species such as mountain pygmy possums.
Bleached coral draws our attention, but marine heat does damage to many unseen parts of these ecosystems.
Overall, coastal habitat restoration greatly increases animal numbers and diversity. But not all projects deliver the goods and we need to find out why.
Flash floods are getting more common, as warmer air can hold more moisture. But there are other changes leading to more inland flooding on the east coast.
Sometimes it seems the night is just buzzing with insects. But are there really more insects out at night? We analysed all the evidence on insect activity across the day–night cycle to find out.