The Guardian

Claims that environmental regulations have risen “by 445%” are based on a flawed word-counting methodology developed at a US conservative thinktank and should not be relied upon, legal experts have told Guardian Australia.

The Australian

Richard Taylor is not yet ready to call it quits on grassgate, an environmental storm that has snared his high-profile brother, federal energy minister Angus, in a case of the poisoned native pastures.

The Canberra Times

"Climate change is a huge issue for us. We're the canary in the coalmine in Australia. I don't think people realise how important the ski industry is to the Monaro for example,

ABC News

A company linked to an array of Labor figures, which bought a mine for just $1, enjoyed multimillion-dollar refunds from its environmental bond after concessions from the Palaszczuk Government, Right to Information documents (RTI) show.

The Conversation

The chaos of COVID-19 has now hit global energy markets, creating an outcome unheard of in industrial history: negative oil prices. With the world’s largest economies largely in lockdown, demand for oil has stagnated.

The Australian

This pandemic has had a profound impact on global oil markets. As households and businesses have curtailed travel, consumer demand for oil products has dropped dramatically, with the price of US oil recently falling into negative territory. With this comes an opportunity to strengthen our fuel supply chain and build a strategic reserve, while boosting our local fuel sector and supplies. We are seizing these.

The Australian

COVID-19 is unprecedented, but we’re not unprepared. There’s a lot that science can help us predict. Drought combined with climate change will lead to more bushfires; finite resources will lead to seeking renewable solutions; and increased global traffic will lead to faster disease transmission.

In the Black

With corporate social responsibility part of the business mainstream, companies are now expected to make a profit and a difference. How can they ensure their corporate image aligns with their behaviour?

Reneweconomy

Modelling considers two key pathways for the future development of the NEM, including our Central case for the “current transition” of the market, and an Alternative case, reflecting AEMO’s “step change” shift to renewable energy in line with a “well below 2°C” carbon budget under the Paris Agreement.

Utility Magazine

As Victoria experiences a rise in climate emergencies, population growth and threats to food security, it’s now more important than ever for the rural and urban water sectors to work together, says Cameron FitzGerald, Managing Director of Southern Rural Water.

WAToday

Being placed in mandatory quarantine with your ex-spouse sounds like the stuff of a TV show, but it really happened to Perth’s Chris Ferreira – with surprisingly beautiful results.

Cosmos

Nearly 24,000 kilometres of new roads will be built in Asian tiger habitat by mid-century, potentially increasing the risk of the animal’s extinction, according to a new study.

Ten Daily

Animals of all shapes and sizes are reclaiming parts of the Earth that have long been rendered less inhabitable by human activity.

Cosmos

Ice sheet losses from Greenland and Antarctica have outpaced snow accumulation and contributed around 14 millimetres to sea level rise over the past 16 years, a new analysis of data from NASA’s laser-shooting satellites has revealed.

The Sydney Morning Herald

The public has spent $4 billion on water-saving works in the Murray-Darling Basin, but in many cases it has simply funded even greater extraction of water.

Cosmos

The ocean currents that transport nutrients and oxygen to organisms on the deep-sea floor also carry microplastics there, creating hotspots of up to 1.9 million pieces per square metre, according to a study published in the journal Science.

News.com.au

A severe weather warning is in place across southern NSW for Friday, while Victorians are set to shiver through chilly temperatures.

ABC Rural

Australian agriculture is well set-up to weather worsening economic conditions and growing uncertainty stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, according to a range of analysts.

Reneweconomy

The Australian Energy Market Operator has laid out an action plan to accommodate levels of up to 75 per cent “instant” penetration of wind and solar in Australia’s main grid by 2025, saying the country had the technical know-how to cope with such a high penetration of wind and solar, but needed to urgently update the market and regulatory settings.

ABC News

Australia's electricity grid operator wants the power to remotely switch off or constrain the output of new rooftop solar systems, as it finds ways to manage South Australia's world-leading levels of "invisible and uncontrolled" solar output.

The Age

Government logging has resumed in fire-damaged forests in Victoria and New South Wales despite warnings that devastated bushland and endangered wildlife are too fragile to withstand "business as usual".

ABC News

A leaked expert report shows the Queensland Government was advised to stop further gas fracking in the state's sensitive Channel Country, but a separate department had already extended gas exploration until 2030.

Sky News Australia

The secretary general of the United Nations has declared the coronavirus tragedy is actually an “opportunity” to pour trillions of dollars into climate change fighting industries.

The Fifth Estate

The tourism industry is in trouble but what if a new, more sustainable narrative for tourism rises from the ashes?

The Age

Woodside Petroleum has been hit with a record-breaking investor push to slash emissions and link executive pay to achieving bold new targets, as Australia's oil and gas industry emerges as the next front for shareholder pressure on climate change.

Reneweconomy

One of the world’s banking giants has found that climate resilient investment options are outperforming the rest of the market, successfully bucking the disruptions caused by Covid-19.

Financial Standard

During a Responsible Investment Association of Australasia webinar some financial advisers have suggested that FASEA's Code of Ethics doesn't go far enough on ethical investing.

Financial Standard

The fast-growing custodian is pitching a new ESG analytics tools to local superannuation funds and asset managers to track, compare and benchmark their ESG score.

Reneweconomy

The Clean Energy Finance Corporation should be able to invest in climate change resilience measures, which would help spur investments in bushfire responses, a group representing some of Australia’s largest institutional investors has said.

Reneweconomy

For the first time wind energy became Ireland’s leading source of electricity for a full quarter, beating out natural gas for the first three months of 2020, when it accounted for 43.8% of demand compared to natural gas’s 41.8%.

SBS World News Australia

Carbon-intensive coal demand has so far been hit the hardest by the pandemic, with projections down eight per cent for 2020 as a whole.

Architecture and Design

UNSW associate professor Paul Osmond says buildings and cities need to change after this pandemic and is urging people to soak up nature on balconies, gardens or exercise in parks during COVID-19.

The Fifth Estate

Infrastructure’s social licence to operate is in jeopardy thanks to the community’s construction fatigue and sheer opposition, with around $20 billion worth of infrastructure projects delayed, cancelled or mothballed over the past decade. Making these projects certified under a sustainability rating scheme could turn the tide.

The Conversation

In this pandemic it’s tempting to look for someone, or something, to blame. Bats are a common scapegoat and the community is misled to believe getting rid of them could be a quick fix. But are bats really the problem?

The Australian

A “cannon” is being deployed on one of Canada’s great salmon rivers to fire the fish over an impassable waterfall and towards their spawning grounds.

The Weekly Times

It is time for deer to be declared a pest species — not a resource for hunters — says the chief of Australias Invasive Species Council. A WAR of words has erupted over the management of feral deer in Tasmania with calls for more to be done.

The Daily Telegraph

The deserted streets have suited the ibis - colloquially known as the bin chicken - down to the ground, proving they don’t need humans to survive.

News.com.au

While the COVID-19 pandemic has been a horrific time for humans, it has been a time of relief for nature – and the latest beneficiaries of the crisis are the world’s sea turtles.

ABC News

The coronavirus pandemic that has caused the human race largely to retreat inside their homes is creating a new world for animals, both in the wild and in controlled places like zoos.

The Interpreter

Wind speeds over 215 kilometres per hour, more than 180,000 people affected, communities and their infrastructure hit hard, and countries in lockdown – Cyclone Harold is the most recent climate-fuelled calamity to wreak havoc in the Pacific islands. Combined with the Covid-19 pandemic, this recovery will be one of the most challenging for the region.

The Brisbane Times

A cluster of rare and important macadamia trees that were already at risk of disappearing has been destroyed by bushfires in Queensland.

Yahoo News

There will be 11,000 fewer deaths in European countries under coronavirus lockdown due to a sharp drop in fossil fuel pollution during April, according to research released Thursday.

ABC News

A ban on some single-use plastics will be pushed back in South Australia to allow restaurants and cafes to use disposable items to improve hygiene amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The Fifth Estate

It’s time for wide-open creativity as we work our way of the pandemic crisis. What about more local manufacturing and production – and a big eye on circular economy as we go? New research that just received grant funding might help lead the way.

The Conversation

Lord Robert “Bob” May, Baron May of Oxford, who has died aged 84, was one of the greatest Australian scientists of the past century.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Sydney's run of mostly balmy and dry weather has come to a soggy April end, making way for the coldest start to May in more than a decade.