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Agriculture Minister David Littleproud is calling for calm as the Nationals meet to discuss the party’s approach to climate change targets.

SBS World News Australia

Indian climate activist Disha Ravi has been detained for her involvement in a farmer protest guide linked to Greta Thunberg.

The Guardian

Global momentum is building on increasing climate action to meet the Paris agreement’s 1.5C limit, with all countries under pressure to increase their 2030 emission reductions ahead of the next United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow this year. But Australia appears to be going backwards.

The Australian Financial Review

No one should underestimate how hard it will be to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Some suggest that excluding agriculture, as New Zealand has done, will make the task easier. On the contrary. If we write off the potential of agriculture to help correct the carbon imbalance, it is hard to see how a country like ours could ever meet the target. By making small but important changes to the way we farm, Australia’s 400 million hectares of agricultural land can be transformed into net consumers of carbon sequestered into the soil.

Independent Australia

The Federal Government’s electric vehicle policy was released two years ago, but they still cannot bring themselves to call it that, writes Dr Graeme McLeay.

The Australian Financial Review

AGL shows that while the climate conversation is focused on 2050, impacts are hitting share prices today. The $1.7 trillion asset manager PGIM says investors need to act.

Smart Company

Before COVID-19, sustainability was trendy. Many studies found the majority of consumers in Australia and around the world preferred to buy sustainable, green or ethical products from responsible businesses (or, at least, they said they did).

The Sydney Morning Herald

Australia’s first “big” battery worked so well there are now more than 40 built or planned across the country. How do these batteries work?

ABC News

A slew of Brisbane parks are slated for upgrades this year as Brisbane City Council plans new playgrounds, picnic areas, shade trees and other facilities across the suburbs.

The Sydney Morning Herald

It is hard to think of a patch of land that has won so many friends as the 20-hectare pocket of wilderness that miraculously survived last summer’s fires at the village of Manyana on the NSW South Coast.

ABC News

Another devastating impact of the drought in regional New South Wales has been revealed, with the state's kangaroo population thought to have plummeted by more than a quarter.

ABC News

A chance encounter with a platypus in a Far North Queensland creek has led a retired GP on a months-long quest to free it from its plastic bonds.

The Courier Mail

The Federal Government is pumping more money into an Australian seaweed product that can help cut cows’ greenhouse emissions. It comes as a series of famous Aussies invest in the company that makes it.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Labor’s innovation spokesman Ed Husic has been asking himself the same question for five years, since he first visited Tesla’s California factory in 2016: why can’t Australia build an electric car?

The Sydney Morning Herald

The troubled Dungowan Dam project, cited by the Productivity Commission as an exemplar of “flawed decision making”, may be even less viable than thought with an internal NSW government review estimating costs may double again.

Reneweconomy

WA Opposition leader Zak Kirkup wants to replace State-owned coal-fired power from Collie with wind and solar from the Mid-West by 2025 in a surprise move that has left Labor as the clean energy laggards in WA.

NT News

ENVIRONMENTALISTS are calling on the NT government to close a “devastating” loophole they say puts at risk the future of the vulnerable Northern Australian ghost bat.

The Guardian

Despite a year in which there was a massive increase in government debt that had no discernible impact on interest rates or inflation, our politics remains stuck in the fallacy of debt and deficit, even in the face of the great crisis of climate change.

The Age

This time last year, as bushfire smoke had just started to clear from our suffocating skies, the Victorian government was on the cusp of setting emissions reduction targets for the critical decade to 2030.

Independent Australia

After seemingly changing his stance on a 2050 net-zero emissions target, it's now up to Scott Morrison to actually do something about it, writes Stephen Saunders.

The New Daily

Last week saw the Nationals out again doing their best to slow the momentum building for Australia to join most of our major trading partners and adopt a target of net zero emissions by 2050.

The Canberra Times

The economic damage of emitting one tonne of greenhouse gas into Canberra's skies would be assigned a dollar value following a social cost of carbon analysis.

ABC News

In late 2019 when Australia's first "mega-blaze" tore through Gospers Mountain in northern Sydney, all Kate Friend felt was hopelessness.

The Sydney Morning Herald

About one in three brumbies trapped as part of the Berejiklian government’s plan to cut feral horse numbers in the Kosciuszko National Park is being released rather than rehomed because of animal welfare issues.

ABC News

In 1960, Bill O'Connor was a strapping 24-year-old on a remote pastoral property when, in a split second, his life changed forever.

ABC News

Ashley Judd has recounted a painful ordeal she believes almost cost her a leg after she tripped in a Congolese rainforest and was evacuated by motorbike.

ABC News

Some time in October last year, a batch of commercial compost left a Suez recycling facility in Melbourne, bound for garden centres in central Victoria and Melbourne.

ABC News

A New South Wales Upper House inquiry has heard from groups from the far west of the state about their concerns regarding the Menindee Lakes Water Savings Project and water issues in general.

ABC News

Traditional owners near the Gulf of Carpentaria have launched legal action against the Northern Territory Government over its decision to slash the security bond paid by a massive lead and zinc mine.

Independent Australia

Squabbling governments and evil rulers with mindless minions isn't just the plot of a TV show but a real-world crisis putting our planet in peril, writes Stephen Fitzgerald.

The Mercury

NICK STEEL corrects the misconceptions that continue to surround the state’s logging industry.

The Australian

Once, “learning to code” was the key for workers facing the economic scrap heap to stay in jobs.

Yahoo News

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that oil-polluted Nigerian communities can sue Shell in English courts.

The Advertiser

Stopping climate change is tipped to deliver huge wealth to those taking advantage of business opportunities.

The New Daily

Inaction on climate change is already costing Australia’s farmers countless dollars, and urgent political action is needed to avoid more extreme droughts, fires and floods, they say.

ABC News

The national petroleum titles administrator has knocked back an oil and gas exploration company from extending its work program in the Great Australian Bight, which could have significant implications in any future attempts to renew its exploration leases.

ABC News

A group of leading international law experts has defined a new super-crime. They're calling it "ecocide".

Insurance Business

Travelers Europe, which has a syndicate in the Lloyd's of London market, has joined nearly 30 major insurers in ruling out coverage for the controversial Adani Carmichael coal mine project.

ABC News

Tasmanian aquaculture giant Tassal has reported a sizeable salmon mortality event affecting its Long Bay lease near Port Arthur in the state's south but is refusing to detail the scale or cause of the deaths.

The Daily Telegraph

This is how organised crime gangs and wildlife traffickers are raking in millions of dollars a year selling native species on the black market.

ABC News

A bunch of bizarre-looking blue-coloured sea creatures are washing up on Australia's east coast.

ABC News

It started with a strange song, but it was only after a DNA test of a poo that bird researchers have been able to confirm Australia's first record of an obscure Asian bird, rarely seen even in its native range.

The Age

Forty years ago, wool grower John Ive bought a “moonscape” farm. It was denuded by overgrazing, with production capacity decimated by salinity. Ive says farmers in the district saw him as a “nutcase” for taking it on.

Yahoo News

Australia's tropical marine research agency is turbocharging facial recognition technology to analyse coral reef survey photos in a bid to keep pace with the rapid change in the threatened environments.

ABC News

Farmers along the north coast of New South Wales are at war with a noxious weed that has sprung out of the ground following the 2019 bushfires.

The Guardian

Antarctic scientists are close to finalising a drilling location deep in the frozen continent’s interior that could reveal a continuous record of the Earth’s climate going back 1.5 million years.

The Age

Victorian emissions have dropped to their lowest level in more than 30 years, as the state more than met its pledge to reduce carbon pollution by up to 20 per cent by the end of 2020.

News.com.au

Toxic chemicals have been detected in ground and surface water near a Queensland power station, with some sites well above standard drinking levels.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Sludge on the floor of Sydney Harbour to be dug up during construction of a new harbour tunnel contains alarming levels of toxins, including a “gender bending” chemical that caused female sea snails to grow male sex organs.

ABC News

Adam Johnson was just 13 when his father, a New South Wales police officer, died of cancer. All Mr Johnson was left with was his war medals and a police hat, which he stored on a shelf, a shed and even a shoebox.

News.com.au

Heavy rainfalls are forecast to batter the east Australian coast over the next week, with some regions expected to receive drenchings of up to 150mm.

Reneweconomy

Wind energy projects in Victoria could soon be required to apply for permits to produce turbine noise within set limits, as one of three options being proposed by the state government in addition to a tightening of environmental responsibilities for wind farm operators.

Reneweconomy

WA Liberal leader Zak Kirkup has just committed to closing the Muja and Collie power stations by 2025 and installing 6000 MW of wind solar (more than 80% renewable electricity) by 2030!

Smart Company

Nationals Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack recently suggested that agriculture should be exempt from Australia’s proposed 2050 net-zero emissions target.

Reneweconomy

Late last year, as the world spiralled deeper and deeper into health crisis, Australian iron ore magnate Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest wasn’t moping about at home waiting for a vaccine like the rest of us. He was dashing around the planet on a private jet, hunting for green electrons.

Reneweconomy

Home solar and battery storage systems have been credited with keeping the lights on during a period of record minimum demand in South Australia in October last year, in an Australian Energy Market Operator report on virtual power plants released this week.