The Conversation

The world faces profound disruption. For Australians who lived through the most horrific fire season on record, there has been no time to recover. The next crisis is now upon us in the form of COVID-19. As we grapple with uncertainty and upheaval, it’s clear that our old “normal” will never be recovered.

The Fifth Estate

In the short term, the COVID-19 pandemic has stalled the climate action momentum that was growing in Australia following the disastrous 2019/20 bushfire season.

The Age

Employment in Australia's renewable energy sector surged nearly 30 per cent to its highest-ever level following a boom in wind and solar power construction activity in 2018-19.

Food & Beverage

Wastewater, sewage, effluents and sludge are useful sources of energy with the potential to heat (or in some circumstances cool) other products or materials in industrial processes. The DTR Series of double-tube heat exchangers from HRS is designed to maximise direct (product-to-product) energy recovery from such low viscosity materials, allowing valuable heat to be recaptured before the effluent enters final treatment or is discharged to the environment.

ABC News

Star of the South has released three proposed easements for underground cables through farmland in South Gippsland to connect Australia's first offshore windfarm to the national electricity grid.

ABC News

Despite the conspiracy theories you're hearing, or the misinformation that's spreading on social media, it's clear that this coronavirus came from wildlife.

ABC News

Some of NSW's top scientists and farmers are at odds when it comes to the importance of dingoes to the state's landscape.

Cosmos

Zoonotic diseases – those transmitted from animals to humans – are quickly becoming one of the world’s biggest public health challenges, according to new research published, with impeccable timing, in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The New Daily

As the world remains in a coronavirus-induced lockdown, it’s becoming obvious there’s one upside to the decreased use of transport and industry – blue skies as pollution clears and carbon emissions stall.

Cosmos

Two papers just published in the journal Nature present more grim news about our changing planet.

Yahoo News

Far from being a pristine wilderness, some regions of the Amazon have been profoundly altered by humans dating back 10,000 years, say researchers.

Cosmos

Some flowers have a remarkable capacity to pick themselves up – literally – after an accident, according to a study published in the journal New Phytologist.

News.com.au

A view hidden for more than three decades has re-emerged as parts of India go into lockdown, but locals are paying a high price.

Food & Beverage

Martogg is a family-owned business founded in 1975. It has grown to employ hundreds of people and is a company that specialises in resins and recycled products for the plastics industry. With its head office in Melbourne, and branches around Australia, it is truly a national company that offers solutions for companies that require commodity resins, engineering materials, colours and additives and recycled products.

The Age

Melbourne has had its wettest start to the year in more than a century after 2019 was among the driest on record.

The Canberra Times

I don't always see eye-to-eye with global oil executives, but I was heartened by what the boss of BP said recently about how the coronavirus crisis could redefine the way we think about our communities and the challenge of climate change.

Reneweconomy

Spain is targeting a stunning renewable energy share of 74 per cent of total electricity by 2030, and 42 per cent of total energy demand, in its new National Energy & Climate Plan (NECP) that has been submitted to the European Union.

Food Processing

An IMAS-led study has revealed that global climate change will affect fish sizes in unpredictable ways and consequently impact complex food webs in our oceans. The study analysed three decades of data from 30,000 surveys of rocky and coral reefs around Australia, confirming that changes in water temperature were responsible for driving changes in average sizes of fish species across time and spatial scales. The findings from the study were published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.

Ten Daily

She may be man's best friend, but Fury the labrador is about to be unleashed on an invasive species of ant threatening to destroy heritage-listed rainforests in Far North Queensland.

The Conversation

Intriguing things sometimes happen in places deserted by people. Plants creep back, animals return and, slowly, birdsong fills the air.

Perthnow

It turns out that privacy was all giant pandas Ying Ying and Le Le needed to finally prove they were more than just room mates after spending ten years in the same enclosure.

Yahoo News

Hundreds of monkeys have taken over the streets around India's presidential palace, leading an animal offensive taking advantage of deserted streets as the country remains under a coronavirus lockdown.

ABC Rural

The Northern Territory's iron ore industry is showing signs of life for the first time in five years, with shipments of ore expected to leave the Darwin Port next month.

SBS World News Australia

The coronavirus outbreak has forced factory shutdowns, travel bans and caused economic disaster around the globe - but it isn't all bad news for the environment.

9 News

When you think of the US city of Los Angeles' skyline, the vision is one obscured by smog, with thick air pollution hanging over its downtown buildings.

The Brisbane Times

Queensland’s Containers for Change scheme should be immediately audited after a survey in February found that of 129 collection points, 14 did not exist or were closed and 35 were not effective, a Sydney-based national environment group says.

ABC News

Several charities across the country are reporting a spike in illegal dumping by so-called "COVID cleaners" — those occupying themselves by tidying up during lockdown.

Ragtrader

A global review into the industry's environmental impact has called for an immediate end to fast fashion, with local academics adding to the chorus.