Spotlight on Australia’s ‘nature positive’ environmental reforms: last chance for this parliament to get serious about halting the decline of nature.
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A new report challenges the notion that repairing our continent is a task too big and expensive to tackle.
Conflict between coal giant Adani, the Queensland government and traditional owners over harm to groundwater ecosystems stems from a flawed interpretation of the ‘adaptive management’ approach.
It shouldn’t take sustained public outrage to stop environmentally destructive projects. Nature positive offers us a way forward.
One way to protect our ecosystems is to confer legal rights on them. This idea is at the heart of the ‘rights of nature’ movement – but Australia has few examples of this principle in action.
Nature, everyone agrees, is in trouble. But can Australia’s new market-based mechanism help?
A group of prominent environmental scientists devised this list of 5 things we must see in Australia’s new national environmental laws, if we are to avoid calamity and hasten recovery.
Australia has a once-in-a-decade opportunity to fix environmental law. A new Wentworth Group report says the cumulative impacts from multiple projects must be considered.
Most of us see only the dry treeless plain and spectacular sea cliffs. But beneath the surface there’s a precious world of caves and unique species that could be lost without better protection.
Australia’s environment does not have sufficient legal protection from climate change, as outlined in a new report from the Climate Council Australia.
The Darwin woodland is home to endangered species and important for the Larrakia people. The development approval requires habitat offsets – yet the minister herself has publicly doubted offsets work.
Two states will soon end logging of native forests, but what about the other states? The federal government has powers to intervene but also faces obstacles to nationwide protection of these forests.
Using leaves for local food packaging is beneficial for health and the environment.
Offering ‘carrots’ like biodiversity credits to landholders won’t stop natural collapse. Banning land clearing and stronger environmental laws are much more likely to work.
More of us than ever want to see the ice continent. But is the environmental awakening many return with worth the emissions and possible environmental damage?
To address the climate and biodiversity crises, we must stop criminalizing Indigenous Peoples for exercising their treaty rights and start upholding them instead.
A small congregation of the cockroaches was under the first rock scientists looked under, by sheer accident.
The Federal Court has essentially said it can’t act. But the decision certainly doesn’t mean the government can’t act. In fact, that’s exactly who the judges indicated must.
Empathy is an important factor in getting people to act on environmental issues. Virtual reality can bring oceans closer to home for those who can’t experience the wealth of marine ecosystems.
A recent declaration of a river as a legal person in Canada recognizes Indigenous laws and governance, and champions people as the guardians of nature.
Top contributors
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Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow, Environmental Science, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor in Law, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph
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Professor, Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
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Distinguished Professor, James Cook University
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Visiting Professor, University of Kent
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Charles Darwin University
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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Professor of Hydrogeology, Flinders University
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Professor of Antarctic Studies, School of Humanities, College of Arts, Law and Education, University of Tasmania
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Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
