ABC News

At least 50 countries committed to protecting 30 per cent of the planet, including land and sea, over the next decade to halt species extinction and address climate change issues, during a global summit aimed at protecting the world's biodiversity.

The Canberra Times

Groups of regional Victorians are calling on the state government not to allow the duck shooting season to proceed this year, amid continued concerns about vulnerable ecosystems and the impact on communities.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Koala advocates say the NSW government is not doing enough to save the animal from extinction after it backed without qualification a quarter of the recommendations of an upper house inquiry into the marsupial's populations and habitat.

Yahoo News

Fossil fuels are set to remain the dominant source of electricity across Africa over the next decade, according to a new study.

News.com.au

Toyota is experimenting with electric power for its LandCruiser 70 Series in Australia.

The Conversation

Around Australia, the buzz-saw siren of cicadas heralds the beginning of summer. With 237 recorded species of cicada in Australia, almost no area of the country is untouched by their song. Up to 800 species in Australia are still to be scientifically recognised.

The Canberra Times

Even at low doses, an insecticide banned in the European Union kills insect brain cells and could contribute to bee population decline.

The Guardian

The South Australian town of Lucindale has been threatened by a grass fire burning out of control in the state’s south-east with reports of buildings on fire.

ABC News

An amateur photographer on the North Coast of New South Wales has turned the ordinary into the extraordinary by capturing a series of mesmerising photographs of Lake Cakora at Brooms Head.

The Weekly Times

PROPONENTS of a novel $25 million recycling plant that will convert poultry manure and litter plus dead chickens into fertiliser hope they will soon get the regulatory green light to build. Australian Bio Fert plans to build the plant at Lethbridge near Geelong, in an area surrounded by egg farms.

WAToday

Perth's construction and demolition sector is either stockpiling almost 1 million tonnes of potentially asbestos-riddled waste per year or taking it to country tips to dodge landfill payments, in what a new report suggests is "significant levy fraud".

Yahoo News

A few years ago, Samsung announced a sustainability initiative called “Galaxy Upcycling,” an effort to repurpose and reuse older smartphones. We haven’t heard much about it since then, but today at CES 2021 Samsung announced an evolution of that program called Galaxy Upcycling at home. At its core, the idea is to let people who still own older Galaxy smartphones to use them as part of their connected home rather than just leave them in a drawer (or worse, send them to a landfill).

The Age

Premiums could rise after insurer QBE increased its allowance for catastrophic weather claims by almost a quarter following a year of unprecedented weather events in Australia and the United States.

Reneweconomy

Australia’s largest battery storage project could be built just outside of Sydney, with planning documents revealing the plans of renewable energy developer Neoen kick-starting the planning process for a 500MW/1,000MWh big battery in New South Wales.

The Australian Financial Review

Australia's second biggest liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility has had the tenure of its environmental approvals halved by the Western Australian government after a sustained campaign of pressure by conservation groups.

Reneweconomy

Australia’s rooftop solar market has defied a challenging 2020 to set a number of new installation records, with the market overcoming disruptions to grow by a massive 39 per cent year-on-year, new analysis from consultancy SunWiz has detailed.

Infrastructure Magazine

Gladstone Ports Corporation (GPC) has partnered with Australia’s top science body, CSIRO, on a new water quality and wind monitoring station installed at the Port of Bundaberg.

Yahoo News

Authorities in Tasmania are investigating reports a great white shark was caught and killed off the state's northwest at the weekend.

The Herald Sun

A mob of kangaroos landlocked by suburban growth in Lilydale are now stranded by government red tape.

Yahoo News

The authorities in Uganda are investigating the cause of a large-scale death of fish on Lake Victoria - Africa's largest fresh water reservoir.

ABC News

Rescue workers were among at least 11 Indonesians killed as two landslides in quick succession devastated a village in West Java.

The Sydney Morning Herald

South32, the miner behind a plan to expand coal extraction under Sydney's catchment, says it has offered more than $100 million over the life of the project to compensate for water losses.

Inside FMCG

Beiersdorf has unveiled a shower-gel refill station, which it is testing in several health & beauty stores in Germany as it looks to find ways of reducing plastic packaging waste.

The Herald Sun

An industrial fire at a Laverton North waste management site sent smoke billowing across Melbourne’s west on Monday night. The blaze broke out at Norstar Steel Recyclers.

Broadsheet

It’s a chic salon on the surface – but look a little deeper and you’ll see its commitment to sustainability embedded in everything from its shampoo to its showerheads.

The Guardian

Melbourne has experienced its hottest day in almost a year, as other states sweltered through temperatures up to 17C above average.