The Australian Conservation Foundation has described the Albanese government’s approval of an extension - through to 2073 - for the Gregory Crinum metallurgical coal mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin as reckless and inappropriate....
Bamboo has a few downsides, but environmentally speaking, it could change the game for sustainability in buildings. But why hasn’t a large-scale bamboo industry been considered for Australia?...
When farmer Pao Ling Tsai set a trap to catch the predator that had been killing his chooks, he expected he would catch a feral cat or fox. “I’ve given the video to National Parks and Wildlife to see what animal took the food, but I think it was another quoll or quolls.”...
After the photo of the “Single-rider” tree trunk being trucked out of Tasmania’s Florentine Valley forest gained worldwide notoriety, I took a walk in the forest, guided by the Wilderness Society’s Alice Hardinge....
In the middle of the southern Queensland bush, a man in a high-vis orange shirt looks starkly out of place as he slowly pushes a strange four-wheeled machine across the uneven, scrubby landscape....
A report commissioned by the NSW government and written by former coal lobbyist Cameron O’Reilly is recommending that the NSW government spend hundreds of millions of dollars per year to extend the life of Eraring coal-fired power station beyond its current lifespan....
The planet’s wealthiest people are putting Earth on a countdown to extinction. Wealth inequality is a global crisis and taxing the super-rich is a pathway to saving the planet from environmental catastrophe, writes Robert Gordon....
As Greenwood expresses, many First Nations peoples in Australia feel an intimate and deeply profound, seemingly genetic connection, to their ancestral lands, often simply called “Country.”...
Greetings, I have discovered this Australian community while I was looking for any discussions on what is going on in regards to conserving koala habitat in the Land Down Under. I haven’t decided yet on whether or not I should go ahead and create my own koala community on here as I recently have came here from Reddit....
Parts of the sea floor near Australia’s Casey research station are as polluted as the harbour in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, according to a study published in PLOS One in August1....
The suffocation of up to 30 million fish in western NSW has been described by a scientist as a “canary in the coal mine” for a sick river environment....
Researchers discovered the land-based feedback loops with the relatively new technique of causality analysis, a statistical technique that can help determine if one factor is directly responsible for another happening...
Our research compared a “Biosolar” green roof - one that combines a solar system with a green roof - and a comparable conventional roof with an equivalent solar system....