The Sydney Morning Herald

A remarkable trial is set to begin in Eugene, Oregon, on November 19. The Trump administration is being sued by 21 children on behalf of themselves and future generations. The claim is that the administration, through its climate change policies, is violating the children’s basic rights.

The Conversation

From the fossil fuel divestment movement to the Stop Adani campaign, in recent years we’ve seen a wave of climate activism that directly targets fossil fuels — both the infrastructure used to produce, transport and consume them, and the corporations that finance, own and operate that infrastructure.

The Mercury

THE salmon industry has had to face some serious criticism in recent times and has come under increasing public scrutiny.Once seen as the darling of the new wave of sustainable industry in this state, it has now become a target for concern and condemnation.

The Interpreter

In a bid to promote its palm oil-free products for the looming Christmas consumption frenzy, British supermarket chain Iceland recently sought to repurpose a moving Greenpeace campaign ad. The Disney-like cartoon shows a baby orangutan in a British child’s bedroom, disturbed by chocolate and shampoo containing palm oil, the crop which has destroyed its home.

Architecture and Design

Australia’s Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has launched an Australian certification standard for responsible forestry, achieving a ground-breaking first in the protection and management of the nation’s forest wealth.

ABC News

A $38 million Tesla battery plant in South Australia is on track to be up and running by May.

ABC News

Chinese nuclear scientists have reached an important milestone in the global quest to harness energy from nuclear fusion, a process that occurs naturally in the sun.

ABC News

Tyron Burk has Asperger's and is passionate about a pod of wild dolphins that has been visiting the Whyalla marina in South Australia almost daily for decades.

The Sydney Morning Herald

After facing near-extinction, mountain gorillas are slowly rebounding. On Wednesday, the Switzerland-based International Union for Conservation of Nature updated mountain gorillas' status from "critically endangered" to "endangered," a more promising, if still precarious, designation. There are now just over 1000 of the animals in the wild, up from an estimated population of 680 a decade ago.

ABC News

You've probably heard people blame the devastating impacts of cyclones, hurricanes, or typhoons on climate change.

Cosmos

It’s been quiet since 1538 CE, but the Campi Flegrei may be revving up. Nick Carne reports.

ABC Rural

Almond growers across the world could reduce their carbon footprint and increase their trees' productivity by recycling their old orchards back into the ground, a research trial in the United States has shown.

News.com.au

While a woman was helping her elderly dad, she captured him in one picture which captured the desperation of Aussies trying to make ends meet.

Food & Beverage

Simply Cups aims to recycle 11 million coffee cups into benches and parking kerbs with help from the NSW circulate grant program.

Motoring

Mercedes-Benz has announced deliveries of its Mercedes GLC F-Cell SUV in Germany, claiming the small SUV is the world’s first plug-in hydrogen car.

The Guardian

Woodside Petroleum chief executive, Peter Coleman, has joined mining giants BHP and Rio Tinto in calling for a price on carbon to help with emissions reduction targets and the transition to renewable energy.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Federal Energy Minister Angus Taylor has launched a spray at energy giant Woodside, dismissing its calls for a carbon price as a cynical effort to sell more gas.

9 News

Taxpayer funds will be put towards a new power project, with the energy minister leaving the door open to expanded hydro, solar, gas and coal generation.

Food & Beverage

When it comes to putting this season into perspective, Riverina grower Roy Hamilton has 128 years of rainfall records to show that, for his family’s property, this year is one of the driest since 1890.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Environment Minister Melissa Price has blasted one of her own Liberal Party colleagues for saying she is on her “L-plates” in the job, inflaming a dispute over whether she offended a Pacific Island leader by saying the region was “always” seeking cash from Australia.

The Herald Sun

AUSTRALIA can be a world leader in hydrogen fuel amid a surge in demand the energy source, according to the boss of a big Aussie oil and gas company.

Ecogeneration

The Victorian Coalition has unveiled plans to extend the life of existing coal generators and underwrite the construction of a new 500MW power plant, to create a new source of “24/7” electricity for the state.

Yahoo!7 News

Spain said Tuesday it wants to outlaw the sale of new diesel and petrol cars from 2040, the latest European country to target polluting vehicles to try to cut emissions.

Reneweconomy

The Morrison Government continues to stick its head in the sand, even after their drubbing on the climate challenge in the recent Wentworth by-election.

News.com.au

Amid the doomsday prophesising that followed China’s recent announcement, it’s time to start telling a different story about Australia’s waste industry, writes Paul Klymenko.

ABC News

Queensland resource companies will be required to financially contribute to rehabilitate abandoned mines in Queensland, under new legislation passed in State Parliament.

Financial Standard

New South Wales Treasury Corporation (TCorp) recently raised $1.8 billion to fund the NSW Government's first green bond. It is a record for the Australian green bond market.

Reneweconomy

New South Wales consumers who have invested in “smart energy” technologies like rooftop solar and battery storage could soon form part of a 200MW-plus virtual power plant, after the launch of a new grid-bolstering scheme by the Coalition state government.

Ecogeneration

Thermal coal is fated for long-term structural decline and energy-related carbon dioxide emissions are increasing despite the Paris targets, are key take-outs in the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2018 report released earlier this week, which also finds wind and solar are now two of the top three global energy generation sources.

SBS World News Australia

The extinction of plant and animal species from extreme climate change could lead to a "domino effect" that annihilates all life on earth, new research has found.

ABC News

Australia has had a love affair with brumbies since the days of Banjo Patterson, but the modern reality for the animals is far from the romance evoked in The Man From Snowy River.

9 News

The owner of a Bass Strait ferry service being sued over the death of polo ponies on a trip from Tasmania to Victoria claims the horses' co-owner, not them, was responsible for the animal's welfare.

The Sydney Morning Herald

The blowout of an oil well in the Great Australian Bight could leak for more than 100 days and foul beaches along Australia's coastline from Albany in WA to Sydney's beaches and beyond, a leaked document shows.

Ten Daily

At 10.45am last Thursday I received a text from my friend Ben. “Kinda crazy around here today. A fire started up the hill in Paradise.”

The Conversation

Palm oil can be found in food and cosmetics everywhere: in fact, half of the world’s population uses palm oil in food. But public awareness about the loss of wildlife through deforestation caused by palm oil crops is growing, and there’s mounting pressure on retailers to reduce their sales of palm oil products, or boycott them altogether.

ABC News

The Blue Mountains are listed among Machu Picchu and the pyramids in world heritage significance — but that could be at risk, a major international conservation group has warned.

The Newcastle Herald

The Hunter is one of the top 20 “hot spots” for land clearing in the state, according to a report released by the World Wildlife Fund, the Nature Conservation Council and other environmental groups on Wednesday.

The Conversation

I am a plant ecologist, and rain and dew are things I need to understand. Plant ecology is all about learning how plants are affected by the world around them (their environment) in the same way that you are affected by your environment.

ABC News

Palmerston residents mystified by a low hum and a luminous cloud hanging overhead have a nearby gas plant to blame, officials say.

Yahoo!7 News

A veterinarian has blasted the controversial ‘Coles Little Shop’ campaign after discovering one of the plastic toys washed up on a beach in Bali.

The Conversation

The average American generates about 1,500 pounds of garbage annually, and then spends lots of tax dollars disposing of it.

Inside Waste

A new collection of dog collars and leads made from recycled plastic has been launched after a year of extensive research by Australian veterinarian Dr Steph Stubbe.