The Strategist

The capacity of the Australian Defence Force and other key agencies must be increased urgently to enable them to deal simultaneously with climate-driven disasters at home and in the region while countering worsening security threats, food shortages and mass people movements.

The Sydney Morning Herald

The NSW government is undermining a key platform of its koala protection policy by removing financial incentives for conservation on private properties as part of a bill to help harmonise council rates.

Independent Australia

The latest koala plan from the NSW Government has outraged conservationists and destroyed any remaining credibility, writes Sue Arnold.

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON — The intelligence community has published a wide-ranging report detailing its predictions about the state of the world in the next two decades.

Reneweconomy

April 22 this year is ‘Earth day’, and it’s guaranteed to be a busy time. Every climate and energy organisation on the planet will likely time their new reports and releases for that week, and rumour has it that the president of the United States, Joe Biden, will be announcing an update to its 2030 Paris climate agreement targets, at the April 22-23 climate summit hosted by the White House. Australia has an invite, and is sure to attend.

Insurance Business

Climate change and the resulting energy transition are the major drivers of transformation in the energy industry risk landscape, according to a report by Willis Towers Watson.

The Australian Financial Review

Former Business Council of Australia president and energy executive Grant King, who championed the $80 billion LNG export industry in central Queensland, will overhaul the Climate Change Authority to drive Australia’s emissions reduction – only two years after the Morrison government almost scrapped the government body.

Reneweconomy

The Australian solar industry awoke with a surprise when AEMC announced a draft determination that on one hand seeks to ensure the right for solar system owners to export their energy into the grid, while at the same time, proposing charges for the right to do this.

Yahoo News

The view that battery-powered heavy goods lorries can't compete with diesel is being challenged by new research.

ABC News

Parks Victoria is advocating aerial shooting to control feral horse populations, when ground shooting is not feasible, to help protect the state's fragile alpine region, a draft management plan for feral horses has revealed.

Cosmos

The sight of a mountain gorilla rapidly beating its chest is a captivating feature of its communication repertoire, but its purpose hasn’t been entirely clear.

The Guardian

Herding sheep using dogs, motorbikes or even people is not as ovine-friendly as a drone, new research shows.

WAToday

In the summer of 2011, as flooding across Victoria and Queensland killed 35 people and left a $14 billion damage bill, something very different was happening on the other side of the country.

Yahoo News

Unless nations dramatically improve on carbon cutting pledges made under the 2015 Paris climate treaty, the planet's richest concentrations of animal and plant life will be irreversibly ravaged by global warming, scientists warned Friday.

ABC News

When scientist Alan Baker made a cut in the side of an exotic plant in the Philippines jungle, the sap that bled out had a jade-green glow.

News.com.au

More than two weeks after the NSW flood disaster left a trail of destruction, new pictures reveal the true scale of devastation as the impact continues to be felt long after the water recedes.

Cosmos

Last year, as pandemic-related lockdowns enveloped the world, our oceans – just like our cities – fell more silent than they likely have been since the onset of globalisation. Now, scientists hope to study exactly how the resultant quiet has affected marine species usually besieged by the sound pollution from shipping, fishing and other anthropogenic ocean traffic.

Yahoo News

The Duke of Cambridge has urged banks to "invest in nature" to help fight global climate change.

The Canberra Times

Rosslyn Beeby, a former environment reporter at The Canberra Times, has died, remembered by colleague and friend Gillian Lord as "a prickly, feisty person and a fine journalist who was never afraid to speak truth to power and call things as she saw them".

The Newcastle Herald

Work is continuing at the Carmichael coal mine and rail project after police removed protesters trying to blockade the site in central Queensland.

ABC News

As a pack of tropical lows looms off the WA coast, the latest forecast is for the biggest, Tropical Cyclone Seroja, to continue south-west and turn towards the coast on Saturday.

7 News

Japan is looking to raise its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions-reduction target to at least a 40 per cent cut on fiscal 2013 levels from 26 per cent now, Kyodo news agency says, citing sources close to the matter.

Financial Standard

The chief executive of the UK's Pensions Regulator believes climate change will be more catastrophic to populations' way of life than the COVID-19 pandemic if no action is taken.

The Australian

“ESG is becoming a core part of the strategic fit.” Companies that were seen as having good ESG ratings were now finding they could get a better deal on fundraising than those which did not

ProBono Australia News

An analysis of more than 1,600 Australian startups that have publicly raised funds between 2015 and 2020 found about 20 per cent could be classified as impact startups, meaning revenue generated was inherently linked to creating measurable positive social or environmental impact.

Yahoo News

Bitcoin mining in China is so carbon intensive that it could threaten the country's emissions reduction targets, according to new research.

7 News

Farmers are alarmed at the prospect of a new pipeline they say could lead to further development of gas fields across central Queensland's Galilee Basin.

Architecture and Design

Paragon, a mixed-use 48-level luxury residential tower in Melbourne’s CBD, will feature the largest vertical solar panel system in all of Australia to outperform other buildings with similar systems.

ABC News

In what has become a regular occurrence, a portion of a popular southern Queensland beach has collapsed into the ocean at the same location where cars had been driving onto a Fraser Island barge a short time earlier.

The Age

Conservation groups have warned the removal of humpback whales from Australia’s national threatened species lists would be “rash”, despite them making a comeback from near extinction.

The Australian

The migration of three orange-bellied parrots across Bass Strait has excited scientists and wildlife enthusiasts who have watched the birds teeter on the edge of extinction.

The Conversation

The tropical water at the equator is renowned for having the richest diversity of marine life on Earth, with vibrant coral reefs and large aggregations of tunas, sea turtles, manta rays and whale sharks. The number of marine species naturally tapers off as you head towards the poles.

ABC News

Sharks and stingrays caught off South Australian jetties are being mutilated and thrown back into the water alive, fishers and scuba divers say, prompting calls for more humane treatment of the animals.

The Age

Australia’s foremost coral reef scientist Professor Terry Hughes says government plans to restore the Great Barrier Reef are doomed to failure because they’re too small and expensive, while the rate of catastrophic bleaching events are already recurring faster than corals can recover.

Yahoo News

A disturbing image has revealed a toxin has been detected leaking into the air that could cause paralysis and even death.

ABC News

For the past 12 months, Mungindi residents have had little to smile about. The border town — split between Queensland and New South Wales — lost its only supermarket and butcher in a massive fire last September, compounding weeks of stress over COVID-19 border restrictions that cut the community off from key services.

The West Australian

A metal object may have pierced the side of a tank and caused the massive chemical spill at a South West refinery last month, a preliminary investigation has revealed.

The Australian

Carbon dioxide levels in the northern hemisphere were on ­average 50 per cent higher than before the industrial revolution last month and are expected to set a new peak of 419.5 parts per million this year.

Pedestrian

Byron Bay-based bohemian luxe brand Spell, which has a rabid cult following that sees new collections sell out every launch day, has blessed us all by branching out into fashion rental.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Twin tropical cyclones are predicted to clash off the north-west coast of Australia in the coming days in a rare interaction that is exciting weather nerds far and wide.

Yahoo News

The northern hemisphere has seen a dramatic and damaging swing in temperatures with scientists warning of "horrific" consequences as a result of the wild weather rollercoaster.