7 News

Former chief state health officers are among a raft of experts calling for climate action to protect the wellbeing of Australians.

Inside Waste

The Product Stewardship Centre of Excellence aims for the wide-scale adoption of product and material stewardship principles by businesses to reduce waste generation and create positive environmental and social outcomes.

7 News

Australia’s peak oil and gas body has flagged its support for achieving net zero by 2050, as emissions continue to rise in the sector.

Reneweconomy

Output from Australian gas generators fell to new record low levels over the latest summer, as output from wind and solar surged to new highs, raising new questions around a Morrison government push to invest in a new gas-fired power station.

Yahoo News

A new approach to making jet fuel from food waste has the potential to massively reduce carbon emissions from flying, scientists say.

The Conversation

Green hydrogen is being touted as an alternative to fossil fuels in New Zealand. The government has invested NZ$8.4 million to explore its potential and $19.9 million in a hydrogen energy facility.

ABC News

One of Australia's largest beekeeping businesses fears bright lights and noise at a proposed gold mine nearby could result in millions of bees becoming disorientated and stressed.

The Conversation

Around one year ago, Australia’s Black Summer bushfire season ended, leaving more than 8 million hectares across south-east Australia a mix of charcoal, ash and smoke. An estimated three billion animals were killed or displaced, not including invertebrates.

Cosmos

In a bizarre story of lost and found, scientists have unraveled Greenland’s secret – It really might have been forest green only a million years ago.

ABC News

New Zealand’s waterways are some of the most degraded in the developed world. Will the Ardern government clean it up or will the Maori take control?

Cosmos

How cool would it be to transform plastic bag waste into clothing, tackling two unsustainability issues in one? Until now, it wasn’t thought possible – largely because the plastic from which bags are made doesn’t absorb moisture and would trap in sweat.

The New Matilda

Pressure is building on the Morrison government to introduce national fuel efficiency standards amid concerns Australia is becoming a dumping ground for the world’s dirtiest cars.

Reneweconomy

The NSW government could consider using new powers to prohibit renewable energy projects from connecting to the grid in circumstances where there is strong community opposition to the project, in a message to project developers that building and maintaining strong social licence will be critical to the state’s renewable energy zones.

Yahoo News

A NSW upper house committee is set to investigate the health of kangaroos, wallabies and wallaroos in the state, including commercial kangaroo killing.

NT News

THE Northern Territory government is calling on businesses to provide expert advice and practical steps on how to make our government buildings and assets more energy efficient, and help reduce our greenhouse gas emissions

The Mandarin

Creating a truly circular economy will take transforming existing systems. Two leaders share the roles their governments are playing to trigger change at the opening session of today’s Japan Circular Economy Roundtable, hosted by the World Economic Forum.

The Canberra Times

Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack wants agriculture to be exempt from Australia's net-zero by 2050 greenhouse gas emissions target. What he doesn't realise - or won't admit - is that changing practices around food and water management is key to reaching this target, and potentially, to our survival.

The Australian Financial Review

Andrew Forrest has doubled down on his ambitions to turn Fortescue Metals Group green with a commitment to being carbon neutral in just nine years that involves the company becoming a major producer of green hydrogen on top of its iron ore operations.

The Australian Financial Review

Faster economic growth will do less harm to the environment than in the past, because digital innovations such as the iPhone are making the supply of goods and services less resource-intensive, says Productivity Commission chairman Michael Brennan.

The Mandarin

A new study has made the case for Australian governments to increase green infrastructure in urban areas to mitigate some of the effects of climate change, improve public wellbeing, and protect infrastructure.

The Guardian

At least four species of shark and skates unique to Australia are at an extreme risk of extinction unless urgent protections are put in place, according to a new report from conservationists.

ABC News

The average domestic cat looks far from an apex predator.

The Age

New scientific findings that overturn traditional assumptions about fuel load management indicate that climate change is reducing the effectiveness of hazard reduction burning.

The Conversation

Two weeks ago, I found myself hitting the water on Norfolk Island, complete with a survey reel, slate and camera.

ABC News

The Chinese capital Beijing has been shrouded in thick brown dust due to heavy winds blowing in from the Gobi Desert and parts of north-western China and creating what the weather bureau has called the biggest sandstorm in a decade.

The Conversation

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of green spaces and urban parks, especially during periods of lockdown.

The Age

The Murray Darling Basin faces a dramatically drier future, with data indicating inflows to some major rivers will halve by 2060, as experts warn authorities are failing to keep pace with climate change.

ABC Rural

There is no evidence of water hoarding in southern Murray-Darling Basin water markets, according to a new paper in the Australian Journal of Agriculture and Resources Economics.

The Sydney Morning Herald

NSW Planning Minister Rob Stokes has asked his department to investigate sustainable alternatives to synthetic grass amid growing concerns about its environmental and health impacts.

The Australian Financial Review

Among the OECD membership, the question of how to tax global tech giants might have been more decisive than achieving net-zero emissions.

The Age

Last week’s announcement that the Yallourn power plant will close earlier than previously expected raises some big questions: will it be replaced in time, and are more such announcements around the corner? The answers have serious implications for not just Victorians but all Australians.

ABC News

Slugs might make you think of garden pests that eat your vegies, but in the marine world they are some of the most colourful and glamorous looking animals you can find in shallow water.

ABC News

Imagine a system that could detect any bushfire in Australia within minutes of ignition so firefighters could tackle the blaze before it spreads.

ABC News

Along the banks of the Albert River amateur botanist and retired school teacher Glenn Leiper inspects a rich stretch of forest at Alexander Watt Park on the outskirts of Logan, south of Brisbane.

The Guardian

On a two-kilometre stretch of the Yarra River east of Melbourne’s CBD a few years ago, volunteers were gathering rubbish from the banks and reeds.

The Sydney Morning Herald

More than a thousand disposable face masks have washed up on remote Lord Howe Island since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, sparking fears for marine life and sea birds.

The Guardian

Mathias Cormann says he cannot wait to start his new role as the head of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Reneweconomy

A lot of worst fears were realised yesterday, as one of Australia’s central climate wreckers of the 2010s Abbott era succeeded in a campaign to lead the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a massive, influential intergovernmental organisation. News Corp, Fairfax and the Guardian have all confirmed that former Australian finance minister Mathias Cormann is the OECD’s new Secretary-General.

The Canberra Times

A refrain popular with anti-climate change action activists since the early days of the global heating debate has been "what happens if we take expensive action to reduce emissions and others, who haven't, then try to cut our lunch?"

The Brisbane Times

A Brisbane renewable energy company has signed a multimillion-dollar contract with a major housing developer to provide a “virtual” power plant for thousands of homes powered by the solar energy collected from their rooftops.

ABC News

Five dingoes have been killed on the New South Wales Mid North Coast after reports the animals were harassing residents and domestic pets.

ABC News

The Darling River's aquatic ecology is so degraded it has become extinct and iconic fish species including the Murray cod face an uncertain future, according to one of Australia's most respected fish scientists.

Yahoo News

The green, underwater meadows of Posidonia seagrass that surround the Balearic Islands are one of the world's most powerful, natural defences against climate change.

The Guardian

Australia is likely to miss all of its own targets to rid the environment of plastic unless there is a major overhaul of its management and enforcement, conservationists and waste industry representatives say.

ABC News

By this point, you've probably heard about NFTs — even if you still don't really understand them.

The Guardian

If ever there is a case where the headline doesn’t tell the full story it is the news that Victoria’s Yallourn power generator – one of Australia’s oldest and dirtiest coal plants – will shut earlier than planned.

The Conversation

Yallourn power station — Australia’s oldest, dirtiest coal plant — will close four years ahead of schedule in 2028. Announcing the move this week, operator Energy Australia said it will build a giant energy storage battery on the site to make room for more renewables. This is a powerful statement about where our energy system is heading.

ABC News

A Japanese consortium hopes the production of hydrogen using coal from the Latrobe Valley in a world-first trial will prove it is possible to export the emerging fuel source.

Cosmos

The blue-eyed black lemur (Elemur flavirons) may be a close genetic cousin of ours, but these small, lanky tree-dwellers, with their long bushy tails and opposable toes, are sufficiently different that you wouldn’t expect a baby to recognise them as part of the family.

The Conversation

It’s one year since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. While the human and economic toll have been enormous, new findings show the fallout from the virus also seriously damaged nature.