The Canberra Times

The ACT government says it's on track to achieve its target of zero net emissions by 2045, as a test facility for hydrogen gas opens in Fyshwick.

Yahoo!7 News

Campaign groups representing citizens from across the world demanded Tuesday that big energy leaves coal in the ground as COP24 host Poland pushed for protections allowing it to continue burning fossil fuel.

The Australian Financial Review

It would take a conspiracy theorist to imagine that the rioting supporters of the gilets jaunes movement in Paris are in cahoots with the Polish government, hosts of this week's climate change summit. But it would be entirely logical if they were.

ProBono Australia News

Climate change and social issues rated highly in the Australian Institute of Company Directors 2018 Director Sentiment Index. Kyrn Stevens looks at the results.

ProBono Australia News

With over 40 million tonnes of technology ending up in landfill each year, Cat Harding and Mardi Brown knew they had to “Pony Up” – or do their bit. Now they’re not just diverting tech from landfill, they’re changing a culture of corporate waste, writes Maggie Coggan in this month’s Spotlight on Social Enterprise.

Yahoo!7 News

Chanel has become the first luxury fashion house to turn its back on exotic animal pelts such as lizard, crocodile and snake skin, in a move hailed by animal rights groups Tuesday.

The Conversation

Politicians around Australia are proposing ambitious plans to export renewable energy from Australia, using high-voltage power lines laid under the oceans.

Energy Matters

The second phase of the Tesla virtual power plant (VPP) in South Australia will network a further one thousand low-income households.

The Conversation

Science is clearly showing that the world is shifting towards a more unstable climate. Weather events like the flash floods in Sydney last week will be more frequent and extreme, while the intervals between them will become shorter. With rising sea levels and frequent floods, water landscapes will become part of our urban routine.

ABC News

In Tasmania it's breeding time for the critically endangered swift parrot — but something is very wrong.

ABC Radio National

Imagine an animal that is small enough to pollinate flowers.

ABC Rural

As Queensland recovers from its bushfire crisis, farmers and volunteer firefighters are claiming not enough is being done to stop bushfires spreading from National Parks onto people's properties.

Cosmos

Classification method helps prioritise species at risk of extinction. Samantha Page reports.

The Canberra Times

The government believes about 150 homes in Canberra are at high risk during a one-in-100-year flood event.

Food & Beverage

In a world-first initiative, engineers at Monash University have created technology that can transform contaminated water into purified water that is fit for consumption faster and more energy-efficiently than ever before.

The Advertiser

Airservices Australia has launched a new multi-pronged probe to reveal the spread of harmful chemicals once used in firefighting foam at Adelaide Aiport.

ABC News

Sir David Attenborough says the "collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon" unless urgent action is taken against global warming.

Yahoo!7 News

Governments must protect citizens from the killer effects of climate change, movie tough guy-turned-statesman Arnold Schwarzenegger told AFP, insisting the United States was committed to a greener future despite Donald Trump reneging on the Paris agreement.

The Sydney Morning Herald

The Morrison government has no intention of lifting Australia's commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Melissa Price, the environment minister said, as she prepared to fly to a major climate summit in Poland.

The Guardian

Former PM says he gave national energy guarantee his ‘best shot’ but was stymied by colleagues who don’t believe in climate change

The Age

First they took to social media, then they took to the streets. Now, student protesters are travelling to Canberra to take their demands for urgent action on climate change to the Prime Minister himself.

The Australian Financial Review

Software billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes plans to bring his "fair dinkum power" campaign to the NSW and federal elections to fight the "nefarious" activities of the federal government and fossil fuel industry.

The Guardian

The Australian Conservation Foundation has launched a federal court challenge to the environment minister Melissa Price’s decision not to apply the water trigger in assessing water infrastructure for Adani’s Carmichael coalmine.

The Guardian

Labor and the Greens will attempt to prevent the Morrison government from underwriting new coal-fired power as the energy policy battle moves into its next phase.

9 News

Property owners hard-hit by potentially toxic PFAS firefighting chemicals should be compensated, a parliamentary inquiry has recommended.

The Conversation

A mounting sense of urgency will greet negotiators as they arrive at this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poland. In 2015, after 20 years of trying and failing to reach a global accord on climate-changing emissions, 195 nations hammered out a deal, the Paris Agreement, that all of them could accept.

The Australian Financial Review

Climate policies being proposed by Australian politicians have become increasingly flawed because no-one is willing to countenance the idea of a price on carbon. In fact, the attempts to avoid the idea of pricing carbon have become so absurd that it now might be possible to start again with a design that is based on science and expertise rather than the nonsense that has passed as political debate driven by political cowardice.

The Guardian

Releasing emission figures on the day students were protesting climate change showed that this government really has no clue

The Conversation

If anyone needs further evidence of the self-defeating weird places the Liberals seem to find themselves in, consider what happened on Tuesday.

ProBono Australia News

One of Australia’s largest environmental charities has won big at this year’s Banksia Sustainability Awards, celebrating their partnerships with big business making a real environmental impact.

The Australian Financial Review

Listed rail company Aurizon has launched legal action against environmental activists who have been blocking coal trains in Queensland, saying the protests were disrupting their business and could end in someone being killed.

ProBono Australia News

Food Connect is a community supported agriculture enterprise that aims to create a fairer food system by connecting local farmers with local buyers.

The Australian Financial Review

The Malaysian government ordered Australian rare earths producer Lynas to remove 450,000 metric tonnes of radioactive waste from Malaysia as a pre-condition for future licences to operate.

The Australian Financial Review

One of the multinational rivals to ASX-listed waste management firms Cleanaway and Bingo Industries hopes to begin construction late next year on a big expansion of a rubbish dump at Badgery's Creek in outer Sydney as the competition regulator continues to heavily scrutinise the waste management industry.

The Australian

A rapid shift in Australia’s electricity mix to renewable energy from coal over the next decade may threaten the security of the nation’s power grid if poorly integrated, while introducing a carbon price may render the nation uncompetitive, the head of the world’s peak energy agency has warned.

Prime Mover

Australia stands on the precipice of a significant bioenergy economy according to a new report launched this week.

Reneweconomy

An Australian-first project to test whether renewable hydrogen derived from excess solar and wind energy can be used in existing gas networks and appliances to replace natural gas is underway in the Australian Capital Territory.

Yahoo!7 News

Ratan Kumar once battled India's brutal summers with damp bedsheets and midnight baths. Now he is among millions upon millions of Indians using air conditioning -- helping make the world hotter still.

The Fifth Estate

The Green Building Council of Australia’s Green Star program has come out on top at the 2018 Banksia Sustainability Awards – now in its 30th year – winning the sustainability award for not-for-profits and non-government organisations.

The Conversation

The technology of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is progressing rapidly, but have we really thought through how they’ll work in reality?

The Age

The City of Melbourne will consider a behemoth redevelopment project designed to rejuvenate almost an entire CBD block, with ambitious plans for it to become the city's most sustainable urban landmark.

The Brisbane Times

Finding a snake in your bed could be one of the unanticipated consequences of climate change, animal experts warn.

The Conversation

The recently released 2018 Living Planet report is among the most comprehensive global analyses of biodiversity yet. It is based on published data on 4,000 out of the 70,000 known species of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians.

The West Australian

A Perth girl is lucky to be unhurt after collecting a deadly blue-ringed octopus and taking it home.

The Conversation

Many Australians are concerned with the sustainability of their seafood. While definitions of sustainability vary, according to government assessments, over 85% of seafood caught in Australia is sustainable.

ABC Rural

At 94, soil management expert Jack Logan has seen the impact of many droughts and flooding rains on the Australian landscape.

The New Daily

It is the last great stretch of nothingness in the United States, a vast landscape of mosses, sedges and shrubs that is home to migrating caribou and the winter dens of polar bears.

The Weekly Times

THE long, dry lead-up to what is expected to be a hot summer has producers worried about the potential for a bad pest season.

The Fifth Estate

Not all rivers are suitable for swimming – there are sharks and other flesh eating animals to contend with in some places – but the benefits of a healthy river range much further with improvements to the ecology, heat island effect and recreational opportunities. And at Sydney’s Parramatta River the lure of great swimming spots are being used ”shamelessly” to lure local support.

ABC News

The Northern Territory's water provider remains mystified as to why a tiny island community of 1,800 people is consuming an estimated 2.5 million litres per day.

Yahoo!7 News

India's environmental watchdog has slapped New Delhi's government with a $3.5 million fine for failing to enforce rules to reduce smog in the world's most polluted major city, officials said Tuesday.

The Fifth Estate

Our use of plastic is killing the planet. Getting rid of it has become the new recycling. Remember there is no waste in nature, everything is recycled.

The Fifth Estate

It won’t be cheap to shift the way we live to within the limits of what the planet can provide. Who will pay, and how? The answer could be right under our noses, with “buy local” procurement policies leading to promising results.

Yahoo!7 News

Just one day after Coles and Woolworths were heralded for the significant impact made by their plastic bag policy, questions have arisen as to whether it’s just covering up a bigger problem.

The Sydney Morning Herald

The Morrison government has picked Kim Ellis, an army veteran and the chief of Sydney's Royal Botanic Garden, to lead the Australian Antarctic Division as it enters "an exciting new era of research".

News.com.au

Common phrases like “bring home the bacon” and “put all your eggs in one basket” have been deemed offensive to vegans and vegetarians, who want them replaced with animal-friendly alternatives like “bring home the bagels” and “put all your berries in one bowl”.

Perthnow

WHEN your dad is the nation’s sixth-richest person and is on the Forbes magazine world billionaires list, it can mean a rosy future. Doors often automatically swing open and red carpets get rolled out.