The Sydney Morning Herald

Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions dropped 4.4 per cent in the 12 months to September last year, new government data has revealed, falling to the lowest levels in the country since 1995.

The Age

The federal government’s independent infrastructure adviser wants a massive expansion of renewable energy zones across Victoria, NSW and Queensland, saying more large-scale wind, solar and hydro projects are needed to secure the nation’s future energy needs.

ABC News

The Victorian government is facing calls to start planning for the closure of Yallourn power station after the release of analysis that predicts some coal plants could close as soon as 2025 because of the rapid growth in renewables.

The Sydney Morning Herald

For the former hedge-fund boss now running the world’s largest sovereign investment vehicle, there are some obvious parallels between today’s market for sustainable assets, and tech stocks just before the dot-com bubble burst.

Reneweconomy

It’s an exciting time for energy policy in Western Australia, after the Liberals’ decision to ‘one-up’ Labor by making an election promise to close all coal fired power stations within a few years and by 2030.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Sydney’s planning rules will be drastically overhauled to make new developments encourage cycling over cars, ensure more people have access to green space, and build apartments with working from home in mind.

The Conversation

It’s not often you get to cast your eyes on a creature feared to be long-gone.

Cosmos

Males are prone to try anything to get lucky, and lyrebirds seem to have it clinched, according to study published in the journal Current Biology.

ABC News

Ever since a peacock named Andrew arrived in a leafy Canberra suburb in 1992, the peafowl population has been a local attraction of Narrabundah.

The Age

For all our concerns about dwindling insect populations and accelerating species extinction rates, there is one creature that fails to capture our affection. A tiny slip of a thing, it’s irritating at best and deadly at worst: the mosquito. It never fails to shift the mood. The more there are, the more miserable we become.

Yahoo News

Zoo keepers have compiled the world's largest collection of thermal images of elephants.

The Conversation

In 1992, 1,700 scientists warned that human beings and the natural world were “on a collision course”. Seventeen years later, scientists described planetary boundaries within which humans and other life could have a “safe space to operate”. These are environmental thresholds, such as the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and changes in land use.

ABC News

Australia's dingo fence is one of the world's longest structures and researchers at the University of New South Wales have been observing it from space for more than three decades.

ABC News

Drought has gripped agricultural land west of Brisbane for years, but to the untrained eye, it can be hard to see.

The Advertiser

It won’t be allowed to accept PFAS contaminated waste but now triumphant campaigners are taking a closer look at the other nasties at the McLaren Vale dump.

News.com.au

A new survey of some of Australia’s most popular supermarket items has found more than 80 per cent feature packaging that cannot be recycled in kerbside bins.

The Age

The government has introduced to Parliament a set of national standards for environmental protection to accelerate development approvals and improve wildlife protections but environment groups and Labor say they fall short of what’s needed to save threatened species.

Reneweconomy

“News Showcase is a product for public interest journalism, so there may not be a great fit.” And with one short email from the Singapore-based head of Google News for the Asia-Pacific region to RenewEconomy management, rejecting our request to even hold discussions with the company, the full catastrophe the Coalition government’s new media bargaining code could represent for media diversity in Australia became apparent.

The Daily Telegraph

Joe Biden’s new jetsetting climate czar has taken a swipe at Australia, saying it shares the blame for the failure of 2019’s UN Climate Conference in Madrid.

Reneweconomy

State parliaments in NSW and Victoria have completed nuclear inquiries over the past two years but the governments of both states have no intention of repealing laws banning nuclear power.

ArtsHub

What should we take with us from COVID? In a year when everything changed, Shantel Wetherall looks at how we could embrace another major shift in our thinking, akin to that needed to engage effectively with the global climate emergency.

The New Daily

Fact check investigation: Will rising beef and sheep consumption mean the earth inevitably warms by more than two degrees?

Farm Weekly

The environmental credentials of alternative proteins and plant-based foods are increasingly being scrutinised by scientists and academics and the report card is far from rosy.

Marketing

Marketing and advertising activity has, on one hand, greatly contributed to economic development, generation of jobs, innovation and market efficiencies, as well as greater access to culture and entertainment. On the other hand, it has polluted cities, annoyed consumers and jeopardised its own existence from the constant interruption in people’s attention with little perceived value to provide in exchange. From a societal perspective, our global media and advertising footprint also comes with a hefty toll.

The Conversation

Less than two decades ago, South Australia generated all its electricity from fossil fuels. Last year, renewables provided a whopping 60% of the state’s electricity supply. The remarkable progress came as national climate policy was gripped by paralysis – so how did it happen?

Reneweconomy

There’s little doubt that a successful clean energy revolution is going to require the construction of a large quantity of new technologies to replace defunct coal, gas and oil powered machines. Wind turbines, solar panels, electric cars, buses, trains, bikes, heavy and light industry and a vast network of supporting infrastructure such as transmission lines and batteries will all be required, even in scenarios that involve significant reductions in electricity demand.

The Brisbane Times

Four exotic snakes smuggled into Queensland have been seized by biosecurity officers and euthanised.

The Conversation

Northern Australia is by far the most fire-prone region of Australia, with enormous bushfires occurring annually across thousands of square kilometres. Many of these vast, flammable landscapes have precious few barriers to slow down a fire. Infrastructure and resources are limited, and people are widely dispersed across the region.

The Sydney Morning Herald

A red-alert for toxic cyanobacterial blooms has been issued for almost the entire Lower Darling River, with fears another big fish kill is imminent without significant new flows.

Reneweconomy

Australia’s big energy companies have again ranked as the country’s largest emitters, with the operators of Australia’s coal fired generators dominating the latest list of the dirtiest companies.

9 News

The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has fined a Revesby company $8000 for allegedly causing offensive odours.

7 News

Coles supermarket has announced that it will no longer sell single-use plastic tableware in all stores.

The Spectator Australia

Before he boarded a private jet to make the journey from Sydney to Byron Bay last week, actor, sometime superhero and all-round woke celebrity Chris Hemsworth previewed the theme song for his new TV venture, Celebrity Climate Change Club.

D'Marge

The watch industry is frequently criticised for being quite unsustainable. The reality is that the materials that go into watchmaking – precious metals, jewels, batteries – are often produced via extractive and environmentally damaging methods.

SBS World News Australia

Athletes join the Climate Council of Australia in calling for urgent climate action to prevent severe heatwaves from jeopardising summer sports in the future.

The Geelong Advertiser

Geelong residents can expect a partly cloudy and mild weekend, with light winds and temperatures in the low 20s.

The Herald Sun

Melbourne has shivered through its coldest summer in 19 years, and climate change may be to blame.

News.com.au

Large parts of Australia are in for a wetter and warmer autumn than usual as new figures reveal summer has been out of the ordinary.

Insurance News

Wetter conditions brought on by La Nina have not entirely extinguished the threat of bushfire breaking out this coming autumn, according to a report released today.