Environment
Rushy Lagoon sale: Tasmania's largest farm and the carbon math that doesn't add up

Here's the pitch: plant enough trees & somewhere a coal-fired power station, a gas plant, or an i ...  
Plastics are still a problem and there's room for improvement with green alternatives

How green are plastic alternatives? What about those LEGO bricks?  
JEFF MCMULLEN:  When men were brothers – vale Antarctica expeditioner Geoff Somers

A tribute to the life of UK expeditioner Geoff Somers and his extraordinary calm, courage and ...  
It’s not climate change – it's climate reversal

We didn’t just change the climate; we put it in reverse — and we are compressing that change ...  
How governments are greenlighting nature's decline

New environmental offset rules, weak oversight and bureaucratic complexity are accelerating ...  
Cover-ups, culls and cruelty: Inside Victoria's wildlife crisis

Victoria's environmental policies are facing growing scrutiny as critics accuse the Allan Gove ...  
Bushfires frighten all creatures — great and small

During my coverage of the 1972 New South Wales bushfires, I captured this little creature despe ...  
Why are state and federal governments driving the koala to extinction?

Koalas continue to suffer: Are we dealing with political environmental vandalism?  
The carbon capture con keeping fossil fuels alive

Mainstream media is eagerly repeating the public relations triumphs of fossil fuel giants, but the ...  
Arming for extinction: The climate cost of militarism

As global military spending surges to record levels, the climate cost of war and rearmament ...  
Nature on life support: Budget cuts fuel biodiversity crisis

Labor’s Budget priorities are under fire as conservation groups warn biodiversity funding cuts ...  
Trump’s global energy chaos: Alternative energy comes to the rescue

As global instability and fuel insecurity deepen under Trump’s escalating conflict, Australia ...  
Rain maker: When 'cloud seeding' was cool

This photo of a cloud-seeding aeroplane flying high above the Victorian Alps was taken to illus ...  
Carbon-emitting mining tycoon Andrew Twiggy Forrest turns 'green'

Far be it from this publication to criticise anyone contributing to a greener world. Indeed ...  
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EDITORIAL: Carbon-emitting mining tycoon Andrew Twiggy Forrest turns 'green'

Far be it from this publication to criticise anyone contributing to a greener world. Indeed ...  
America’s Iran war for oil signals environmental disaster

A war for oil isn’t just fuelling conflict — it’s torching the planet, accelerating emiss ...  
Oil, war and ecocide: The destruction of the Middle East

The ecological destruction and the poisoning of the population continue with the attacks by the ...  
City of Gold Coast hides new Beach Bar proposals from residents

Council officers have been working secretly on new Beach Bar proposals for Gold Coast beaches.  

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