Environment and Climate Change
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Rio Tinto blasts 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site to expand iron ore mine
A sacred site in Western Australia that showed 46,000 years of continual occupation and provided a 4,000-year-old genetic link to present-day……
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Inside Australia’s climate emergency: the dead sea – (Interactive)
The ocean around southern Australia is a global heating hotspot. One man has watched entire sea forests disappear in his…
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Backyard beekeeping is on the rise as bee populations come under threat
The hobby has surged in recent years and is offering a welcome distraction to bee enthusiasts across the country. Sarah…
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Coronavirus: Global emissions dropped by 17 per cent during pandemic peak
Restrictions in place because of coronavirus resulted in global emissions declining by 17 per cent in April, a new study…
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Fears of corporate takeover as SA Government seeks to put quotas on fisheries
SA Primary Industries Minister Tim Whetstone this month outlined key goals of a $24.5 million Marine Scalefish Fishery reform package…
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How major cities are trying to keep people walking and cycling
Walking and cycling are up, as people enjoy their daily exercise or take essential journeys they might otherwise have made…
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Pandemic, omnibus bill to greatly impact small-scale fisherfolk
Madina, 47, a fisherman for over two decades in Cilincing, North Jakarta, said 2020 had so far been the hardest year…
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New High Seas Treaty Could Be a Gamechanger for the Ocean
Most of us have never been to the world’s immense last wilderness and never will. Tara Lohan The Revelator It’s…
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Executive Order on Promoting American Seafood Competitiveness and Economic Growth
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America,…
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Tonight’s ‘supermoon’ is a great opportunity for photographers
Tonight, they may finally get an image of a full moon, one of a handful they still need to document…
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Environmentalists urge countries to emerge from coronavirus lockdowns cleaner and greener
One striking effect of the shutdown of much of normal human activity in recent weeks has been something of re-emergence…
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Green stimulus can repair global economy and climate, study says
Green economy recovery packages for the coronavirus crisis will repair the global economy and put the world on track to tackle…
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‘Compelling evidence’ logging native forests has worsened Australian bushfires, scientists warn
A group of senior Australian scientists have warned in an international journal that logging native forests makes fire more severe…
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Flamingos flock to a locked-down Mumbai
Huge numbers of the birds have flocked to Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra state in western India, with photos of…
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False Bay’s great white sharks have vanished, and the answer may be in our fish and chips
Now, they have completely disappeared. Jessica Hamilton ABC News While local surfers might have relaxed, the absence of the apex…
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Months at sea with no internet, sailing ship heads back to a ‘different world’
But as his ship crossed the Atlantic in March, the world changed. Michelle Griffin The Age On March 18, when…
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