The Guardian

Agriculture department spent $95,000 on campaign for the Australian forestry industry promoting wood as ‘the ultimate renewable’

The Conversation

Queensland Nationals Senator Matt Canavan on Monday night denied suggestions the government subsidises Australia’s fossil fuel industry. The comments prompted a swift response from some social media users, who cited evidence to the contrary.

The Guardian

Documents released under freedom of information show that despite warnings of dire fire risks, federal follow-up was sluggish

The Canberra Times

When coronavirus hit, one thing many Canberra households didn't have to rush out and buy were N95 masks.

The Guardian

From the World Bank and the International Energy Agency to Australia’s own Reserve Bank and a host of national industry bodies the message is clear, our path out of the great economic collapse triggered by Covid 19-must put renewable energy and a decarbonised society at its centre.

Money Management

The average annualised return for impact investment products was 5.3% during 2018-19, according to a report by the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA).

The Conversation

It is not feasible to immediately stop extracting and using fossil fuels. The global economy, human health and livelihoods currently depend heavily on oil, coal and gas. But over time, we need to displace fossil fuels with low-carbon renewable energy sources.

Reneweconomy

A new global study has highlighted the growing advantage of wind and solar costs over new and even existing coal generators, so much so that a decision to replace 500GW of old coal plant with new renewables would deliver annual savings of $23 billion ($A34 billion) and a timely $A1.4 trillion economic boost.

Reneweconomy

Goldwind Australia’s 530MW Stockyard Hill wind farm has begun sending power to the grid, after the first of what will be a total of 149 wind turbines was connected to the Victorian transmission network on Tuesday.

ABC News

Construction of the $10 billion Melbourne-to-Brisbane rail line has started, but after 10 years and millions of dollars already spent, debate is still raging about where it should go.

Cosmos

Humans are not the only species that enjoy prolonged childhoods: elephants, whales, dolphins and some bats and birds do also.

ABC News

Hervey Bay's whale-watching season is off to an 'unusual' start with what's believed to be a mother and calf arriving at the Whale Heritage Site several months early.

ABC News

Do you have a piece of pumice on a string in your shower? Do you know where it actually came from?

ABC News

For Cor Smit, the Sugar Pine Walk, near Batlow in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains, is home to some of his most precious memories.

News.com.au

The Australian supermarket giant is going back to the future with a familiar sight returning to stores today after a 40-year absence.

Reneweconomy

Building industry and sustainability experts have called on the federal government to seize the Covid-moment and tie a proposed construction sector stimulus to greener building practices, such as requirements for higher energy and thermal efficiency standards for new homes.

Sky News Australia

Labor MP Matt Thistlethwaite says Labor’s approach to climate change heading into the next election will be guided by “listening to the advice of the scientists”.

The Age

Banning gas installation in new buildings and subsidising Victorians to switch to electrical heating and hot water systems would ease the threat of a gas shortage and eliminate the need to drill onshore.

Reneweconomy

The Victorian Greens will vote against proposed legislation that would lift the state’s moratorium on new gas exploration, labelling the plan a “climate disaster”.

Energy Magazine

Off the back of announcing a $15 million emissions reduction package, the Victorian Government has invested a further $600,000 in brown coal technologies.

Reneweconomy

The New Zealand government has moved to strengthen the country’s Emissions Trading Scheme, announcing a series of reforms that will include placing a hard cap on emissions for the first time.

ProBono Australia News

The current coronavirus pandemic poses a frightening health risk, the parameters of which are still nebulous and unknowable. And we are already seeing the associated costs to global and national economies; to communities and to individuals. The crisis has and will touch even those of us who avoid infection. None of us are immune. Politicians are resisting the term “recession”, but commentators agree on its imminence: the urgency with which we need to reform our economy and business structures is clear.

Independent Australia

Who’s running the country and where are they taking us? Dr Martin Hirst thinks the Canberra bubble is filling with gas.

Investor Daily

NAB, Westpac, CBA have come together with a number of other institutions and leading scientists and researchers to develop standards for climate physical risk projections – the “Climate Measurement Standards Initiative” (CSMI).

Australian Mining

Newmont has significantly reduced greenhouse gas emissions across its operations, with the company’s 2019 sustainability report showing that it has almost fulfilled this year’s targets.

Financial Standard

Australia's appetite for impact investing is set to skyrocket over the coming years, with new research predicting the market will reach $100 billion by 2025.

Energy Magazine

The Clean Energy Council’s latest report has found that the renewables sector could potentially employ 44,000 Australians by 2025, with the majority of these jobs in regional areas.

The Fifth Estate

Jackie McKeon, who has just taken on a new role as director, energy services at Renewable Energy Hub, knows a thing or two about renewable power purchase agreements (PPAs) and says now is the perfect time to make the switch – even if it may not look like it.

Ecogeneration

Businesses too small to take on a PPA may be able to satisfy their desire for solar with a deal in a blockchain-enabled secondary market.

The Fifth Estate

“If we knew then what we know now, obviously, we wouldn’t have bought this house.”

The Fifth Estate

If you need to restore your in the human mind as an amazing problem-solving machine, then Australian-born inventor and educator Sally Dominguez is the right person to speak to.

Pursuit

All of the systems on our planet are interconnected. The One Health approach brings together human, animal and environmental health experts to tackle some of our biggest issues

Yahoo News

WARNING – GRAPHIC CONTENT: While on a picturesque walking trail, two men stumbled upon the corpse of a beloved Australian mammal, which serves as a bleak reminder for how human actions have consequences.

The Herald Sun

In a shocking case of animal cruelty, four wombats have been shot dead and dumped on the side a road in the Macedon Ranges. Wildlife carers who have been devastated by the heinous crime are now pleading for the public’s help to find those responsible.

ABC News

A group of American researchers has published a new study examining how an iconic bird in Far North Queensland got its unusual feathers.

The Conversation

We know the virus that causes COVID-19 is linked to very similar viruses in bats, possibly passed to humans via an intermediate species such as pangolins. The chance of a similar pandemic breaking out in Australia might seem far-fetched. But in fact, we tick all the boxes.

The Guardian

The amount of pristine tropical rainforest lost across the globe increased last year, as the equivalent of a football pitch disappeared every six seconds, a satellite-based analysis has found.

Australian Geographic

Explore the Cosgrove hotspot track that stretches from Cape Hillsborough in Queensland south to the Victorian coast.

The Conversation

A day before Reconciliation Week and the day Australia was meant to be acknowledging and remembering the Stolen Generations, news came of something that seemed to put Australia back a few decades in their journey towards “Reconciliation”. Rio Tinto had detonated a 46,000 year old site known as Juukan Gorge.

WAToday

A Chicago-based heritage protection organisation has added its voice to national and international outrage over mining giant Rio Tinto blowing up a 46,000-year-old Aboriginal heritage site in Western Australia.

ABC News

An outback New South Wales town that has repeatedly faced the prospect of running out of water will have to wait for an upgrade to its decrepit water-supply system.

ABC News

The push for employees to work from home during the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in more people sleeping in and delaying their morning routines, SA Water data suggests.

ABC News

A project to repurpose what remains of Esperance's jetty into art and furniture, is helping to heal a community divided over the heritage-listed structure.

Vogue Australia

Teenage climate-change activist Daisy Jeffrey has been praised as the voice of a generation and is the latest Australian to have contributed to the On ... series of small books, designed to pair leading thinkers with complex themes. Her new release, On Hope, explores the hectic juggle of balancing activism with high school and the ongoing mission to be heard.

7 News

He’s the host with the most when it comes to House Rules. But aside from ruling the roost in our favourite renovation show, he also has a severe passion for the planet.

Yahoo News

"The sea was brought into the city by the wind; the waves roared fearfully; the tops of the churches were blown off and the immense stones were driven to vast distances; two thousand persons were killed."

ABC News

It might be hard to believe, considering how cold it has been in recent weeks, but autumn temperatures were actually slightly above average for Australia as a whole.