The Guardian

An agricultural group associated with Angus Taylor’s family thanked the New South Wales deputy premier, John Barilaro, for a $107,000 grant that was used to fund research to support lobbying efforts for the watering down of protections for endangered native grasslands.

The Sydney Morning Herald

NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean says his decision to set an ambitious target to double the state’s koala population was good politics for a government that had been split over the issue.

The Sydney Morning Herald

The world must end its “deadly” addiction to coal to have any chance of meeting Paris Agreement targets, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said, calling on wealthy nations to abandon its use by 2030.

The Conversation

The Climate Change Commission’s recent draft report and recommendations has helped to kick-start an extremely important process.

Reneweconomy

On Tuesday this week, a high court challenge against an expansion of the New South Wales Vickery coal mine, operated by Whitehaven coal, commenced. The challenge is being led by a group of young Australians who will directly suffer the impacts of the use of the product this company is selling.

The Australian Financial Review

A company set up by Warren Buffett’s grandson is among those helping wealthy investors to back sustainable businesses and climate change technology.

Insurance Business

The Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) has warned that millions of Australians could be left uninsured as the insurance industry continues to struggle with the impacts of climate change.

The Age

Rio Tinto chairman Simon Thompson has announced he will step down within the next year following pressure over the board’s initial response to the destruction of the 46,000-year-old Aboriginal rock shelters at Western Australia’s Juukan Gorge.

The Age

Escalating concerns about the mining sector’s treatment of First Nations communities and contribution to global warming have prompted Australia’s top miners to sign up to stricter monitoring standards for their social and environmental performance.

The Australian Financial Review

Origin Energy will offer fleets of electric vehicles to corporate customers through a venture that aims to tap the looming “tipping point” away from internal combustion engine cars and give fresh impetus to its push into new energy fields.

Reneweconomy

A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows that global emissions have sprung back in December 2020, 2% higher than December 2019, due to an economic recovery and an absence of strong clean energy policies around the world.

The Sydney Morning Herald

The maker of the world’s most popular electric car has warned the failure of Australian governments to embrace a switch to low-emissions vehicle technology risks leaving consumers behind.

The Guardian

Australia is home to the 11 most venomous snakes in the world, the deadliest spider in the world, and some of the most venomous marine life. And yet according to a study released on Wednesday, Australians are twice as likely end up in hospital because of a bee or wasp sting than an encounter with any other venomous creature.

Cosmos

Unravelling the origins of the Earth’s largest living lizard, the Komodo dragon, scientists have found that its ancestors bred with sand monitor lizards from Australia and southern New Guinea millions of years ago.

Cosmos

A DJ-turned-researcher has designed a speaker for zebrafish larvae, playing them a range of beats from sounds they would encounter in the wild to MC Hammer’s classic “U Can’t Touch This”.

Australian Geographic

In 2015, barnacles were touted as a possible solution to finally pinpointing the location of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 aircraft that crashed into the Indian Ocean in early 2014. Although it didn’t quite come to any definitive conclusions, Aussie researchers saw great potential.

The Guardian

Three of Australia’s world heritage-listed marine sites have more than 2bn tonnes of carbon dioxide locked away in their vast seagrass meadows, coastal mangroves and tidal marshes, according to a new report from a UN agency.

The Weekly Times

Australia has the dubious honour of punching well above its weight when it comes to global agricultural emissions.

The Conversation

We all know it’s wrong to toss your rubbish into the ocean or another natural place. But it might surprise you to learn some plastic waste ends up in the environment, even when we thought it was being recycled.

ProBono Australia News

Over the past few years, the conversation around the ethics of the textiles and fashion industries has undergone an enormous shift.

ABC News

Australia recorded its wettest summer in half a decade and its coolest in nine years as La Niña snapped an eight-year hot streak in 2020/21.

News.com.au

A group of teenagers has taken Environment Minister Sussan Ley to court, claiming her approval of a NSW coal mine violates her duty of care to future generations.

Energy Magazine

The Federal Government has launched its $50 million Carbon Capture, Use and Storage Development Fund.

Reneweconomy

The Australian Energy Market Operator may abandon plans to model a ‘gas led recovery’ scenario as part of its 2022 Integrated System Plan, after a proposal to model the Morrison government’s gas market ambitions vision was widely panned by key energy market stakeholders as being unrealistic.

The Mandarin

The federal government is working with a Canberra-based company to trial machine learning technology that aims to detect pests at Australian shipping ports.

7 News

NSW will lift its ban on genetically modified crops in a move welcomed by the state's peak farming body.

The Guardian

Organic farming representatives say a decision by the New South Wales government to lift a ban on genetically modified crops will hurt its thriving industry.

The Sydney Morning Herald

The state’s environmental watchdog is being restrained from taking legal action against the government’s logging agency, despite its concerns that Forestry NSW may be breaching environmental regulations by logging in forests left vulnerable by bushfire.

Reneweconomy

The ACT Legislative Assembly has launched a new inquiry into the national capital’s renewable energy industry, with the aim of identifying new opportunities to “establish the ACT as a national hub for renewable energy innovation”.

Investor Daily

Welcome to the electric vehicle (EV) revolution: less space age than The Jetsons predicted, but impressive all the same.

The Canberra Times

I was walking home from the shops the other day, when I encountered a man using a leaf blower to eject leaves from his driveway onto the road. The leaf blower was an electric one, so at least the noise was not as deafening as the petrol-driven ones produce.

The Canberra Times

Recently I drove through the Snowy Mountains, from Tumut to Cooma, for the first time since last summer's mega-fires devastated the area. Some sections are regenerating with too-green epicormic growth, while in others the earth has been completely cooked and nothing will grow for many years. You can see where rains have eroded gullies on the barren hillsides. All the tussock around Kiandra has burned, and all that remains of the heritage buildings are brick chimneys.

The Fifth Estate

In a conversation with The Fifth Estate before Building Circularity, chief executive and co-founder of Coreo, Ashleigh Morris, delved into her passion for accelerating the transition to a circular economy, how she elevated a busy street out of its waste woes, and why food scraps should be the new way of creating energy.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Investors have ploughed their retirement savings into the superannuation options of Australian Ethical Investments and as well as other savings into its managed funds as awareness of the dangers of climate change grows.

Insurance Business

Insurance organisations worldwide are becoming increasingly aware of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risk factors and their potential impacts on their investment portfolios and lending policies.

The Fifth Estate

The ANZ and National Australia Bank are the biggest Australian lenders to coal. Heading up the list for Australian investors in coal is Macquarie Group and Magellan Financial Group.

Ecogeneration

A Melbourne-based clean energy company shares some wisdom gleaned from 10 years of trying to stay ahead in a relentless sector.

Reneweconomy

One of the world’s most recognisable companies, Mars, owning brands such as Masterfoods, Pedigree, and M&Ms, is completing the transition to 100% renewable electricity for its six Australian factories and two offices.

The Fifth Estate

Australia has an immense opportunity to unleash biogas to fuel industry, but we need precincts to make this energy source commercially viable, according to chief executive officer of Utilitas, Fiona Waterhouse.

The Australian

Giant batteries made of bricks, electric jumbos and underground mines that don’t need ventilation are just some of the technological revolutions on offer as a group of major Australian mining companies put their heads together to plot a major revolution in the way mining is done and help wean Australian mines off diesel and other fossil fuels forever.

Reneweconomy

Swedish plans to develop and trial a salt-based energy storage system will enlist the electric kiln technology of award-winning Australian company Calix, in an agreement with Sweden-based SaltX Technology.

The Fifth Estate

News on Tuesday showed that while Adelaide lost the Holden factory at Elizabeth in 2017 the city was now gaining a significant electric bus manufacturing facility that would employ at least some of the staff from the closed factory and was looking for more staff. In particular, returning expats with high automotive manufacturing skills, fleeing Covid affected areas.

Architecture and Design

A new website that identifies patterns for creating accessible, cool outdoor spaces based on real-world living practices aims to serve as guidance for local councils, planners and developers in addressing the problems of a warming climate.

ABC News

Approval has been granted to demolish and replace Victor Harbor's heritage causeway despite concerns that construction works will drive the region's whales away.

The Conversation

Each year, oystercatchers, plovers and terns flock to beaches all over Australia’s coastline to lay eggs in a shallow scrape in the sand. They typically nest through spring and summer until the chicks are ready to take flight.

Cosmos

Kiwi and Belgian researchers studying sharks off the coast of New Zealand (Aotearoa) have documented three deepwater sharks that are luminous.

ABC News

Giant doughnut-shaped limestone mounds sitting in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, called Halimeda bioherms, have been building up on the seafloor off the Australian coast since the last ice age.

The Guardian

Analysis suggests the risk of extinction of some species may not be as high as previously thought, but researchers warn local depletion has a devastating impact

ABC News

After a promising start the summer honey season has turned out more bitter than sweet for apiarists across the country.

Cosmos

Scientists have tracked the behaviour of one of the world’s most active volcanoes over 13 years, revealing the first-ever detailed description of the lead-up to its eruption.

News.com.au

A massive iceberg almost as big as the city of Brisbane has broken off from an ice shelf in Antarctica, according to scientists.

News.com.au

The amount of plastic pollution flowing through Melbourne’s two most famous rivers has increased at an alarming rate, a three-year study has found.

ABC News

A superbug that feeds on nutrients in sewage water to clean it has been grown from scratch at a wastewater plant in Brisbane.

7 News

Researchers claim at least 1500 deaths in Britain can be directly linked to climate change over the past two decades.

News.com.au

Thunderstorms drenched Perth on Western Australia’s Labour Day public holiday, surpassing the average rainfall total for March in just 24 hours.

Government News

South Australia has become the first state in Australia to outlaw the sale, supply and distribution of single-use plastic products, with a ban on plastic drinking straws, stirrers and cutlery now in force.

Yahoo News

Boris Johnson has been warned by some of his foreign ambassadors that a planned coal mine in Cumbria is damaging his reputation.

The Guardian

Cost blowouts on Wyangala and Dungowan dam upgrades are putting at risk the credit rating of WaterNSW, the agency tasked with building the dams.

The Conversation

Water markets have come in for some bad press lately, fuelled in part by the severe drought of 2019 and resulting high water prices.

The Australian Financial Review

The backer of a proposed $550 million electricity transmission line that could unlock thousands of megawatts of new wind and solar power resources in north-west Victoria is homing in on a final route for the project but still needs to overcome significant local opposition.

The Conversation

Renewable energy capacity in Australia is expected to double, or even triple, over the next 20 years. There is one oft-overlooked question in this transition: where will it all be built?

7 News

Companies selling refrigerators, washers, hairdryers or TVs in the European Union will need to ensure the appliances can be repaired for up to 10 years to help reduce the mountain of electrical waste that piles up on the continent.

News.com.au

A rare and potentially damaging climate phenomenon has caused temperatures to soar in the waters off the Western Australia coast.