The Sydney Morning Herald

Liberal MPs are escalating calls for stronger action on climate change to counter Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce, demanding he stands up for farmers rather than defending mining and gas companies against pressure to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

The Guardian

Labor has called on the government to justify its claim a UN body bowed to political pressure in recommending the Great Barrier Reef be placed on a world heritage “in danger” list, saying there had been warning signs the site had been in trouble for years.

The Australian Financial Review

Australia has won support from 11 countries across Europe, Asia and North America to push back against the United Nations’ proposal to list the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”, threatening its World Heritage status.

ABC News

The Victorian government has created three new national parks in the state's central west in an attempt to protect and preserve some of the region's most precious parkland areas.

ABC News

Former Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull is calling for a New South Wales Parliamentary investigation into "inadequate" coal mine rehabilitation bonds.

News.com.au

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk faced awkward questions on climate policy on Wednesday after lecturing the federal government for jeopardising the future of the Great Barrier Reef.

The New Daily

At the heart of the Coalition’s problem with climate change is that they’ve told Australians that dealing with it will be cost free.

The Brisbane Times

There are few issues that can claim the scalps of our political leaders as swiftly as climate and energy. As the Nationals leadership changes hands, the fundamental policy issues that have contributed to these latest leadership ructions remain unresolved.

The Conversation

A growing global push to halt biodiversity decline, most recently agreed at the G7 on Sunday, leaves Australia out in the cold as the federal government walks away from critical reforms needed to protect threatened species.

Inside Waste

The Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO), the Australasian Bioplastics Association (ABA) and the Australian Organics Recycling Association (AORA) unite behind common approach to compostable packaging.

The Australian Financial Review

Australian businesses are eager to help countries around the Asia-Pacific unlock the carbon farming and capture opportunities of the region’s forests, mangroves and coral reefs, a new report says.

ABC News

Iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest has attacked Santos over its plans to develop a new gas field in the Timor Sea.

Reneweconomy

Putting aside the incredible spectrum of emotions that seem to be surrounding hydrogen as a technology, a concept or a political symbol, it is very much a thing worth paying very close attention to. In terms of a substance used industrially, it is quite old, but as an energy technology – or a climate technology – it is very new.

ABC News

Robert Smith is more at home with farming his property on the edge of Stanley, on Tasmania's north-west corner, than protesting.

ABC Rural

Heat tolerant giant kelp is flourishing at trial sites along the east coast of Tasmania, indicating all is not lost for the world's largest algae.

WAToday

A campaign for the Ningaloo Coast World Heritage Site boundaries to expand to include Exmouth Gulf could not have come at a more dramatic time.

The Guardian

Just weeks after climate activists celebrated the apparent split between Perth festival Fringe World and its major sponsor Woodside Petroleum, a new partnership has been announced – with the fossil fuel giant transitioning its sponsorship to the festival’s non-profit parent company, Artrage.

The Age

Recovery of water for the environment under the $12 billion Murray Darling Basin Plan would be halted in its tracks under a move launched by National party senators in Canberra on Wednesday morning.

The Age

The Liberal Party has delivered its first slapdown to the Nationals since Barnaby Joyce deposed Michael McCormack as leader, rejecting a proposal to halt water recovery to restore the ecosystem to health.

Reneweconomy

UPDATED: Federal environment minister Sussan Ley has made good on her National Press Club threat to put the solar industry “on notice” on waste management, giving the sector less than 12 months to finalise an industry-led nationwide solar panel recycling scheme.

The Australian Financial Review

The United Nations’ responsible investment outfit – backed by investors managing $US100 trillion in assets – has warned that the government’s proxy adviser reforms are backed by little evidence and may flood consumers with useless information.

7 News

Foreign affairs chief Frances Adamson says she has some of the world's best trade negotiators looking at the risk to Australia from Europe's cross-border carbon tax.

News.com.au

Egg prices could go up under a plan to phase out caged hens by 2036, but critics argue the measure does not come soon enough.

The Australian Financial Review

Energy industry leaders fear the veto on extending funding from a key government body towards carbon capture and electric car charging is a missed opportunity for the country and will slow progress towards the goal of carbon neutrality.

The Guardian

Joel Fitzgibbon has blasted an upset victory in the Senate orchestrated by the Greens and Labor preventing the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Arena) from investing in carbon capture and storage as “ideological craziness”.

The Herald Sun

An extra 100 electric car charging stations will be built in Victoria to cater for a surge in new vehicles — here’s where the new facilities will be.

The Age

Hundreds of metres of new railway tracks promised by the Andrews government in Melbourne’s north-east will no longer be built to save an endangered butterfly species.

The Guardian

The national pesticides regulator has refused a request from the New South Wales government to allow farmers to use a rodent poison described as “napalm for mice” around crops to battle the devastating mouse plague.

ABC News

The government's plan to spend almost $200 million on koala conservation has been roundly criticised for lacking detail.

ABC Rural

An agricultural development project in the Northern Territory has had its 10,000-megalitre water allocation revoked in a decision ultimately made by the Territory's Health Minister because the Water Security Minister had a conflict of interest.

ABC News

The Tasmanian government has blasted environmentalists for leaving pademelon carcasses and cat food near cameras set up close to where a controversial new mine tailings dam is proposed in Tasmania's west.

7 News

The United Nations has called for a pause on development in Tasmania's World Wilderness Heritage Area (TWWHA), raising concerns around the thoroughness of cultural assessments.

Independent Australia

The wild weather experienced on 9 June 2021 smashed Victoria with roads closed, flash flooding and power outages. The storm system wreaked havoc across Victoria.

Reneweconomy

I’ve been responsible for developing some of Australia’s largest gas and electricity infrastructure over my 40-year career as an Origin Energy executive, from the Darling Downs Power Station in Queensland to Mortlake Power in Victoria to interstate gas pipelines.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Supporters of the maverick former James Cook University physics professor Dr Peter Ridd packed three courtrooms at the High Court of Australia to see their hero’s unlawful sacking case.

The Australian Financial Review

Controversial claims that Santos is set to “double count” emissions reductions that would be made through its proposed carbon capture and storage venture in South Australia have clouded the prospects for the project which is targeted for a final go-ahead in late September.

The Australian

Coal accounts for up to 70 per cent of power grid supply currently, but the role of the fossil fuel will largely disappear by 2040, says the energy market operator.

The Australian

Australia needs to invest $23bn over the next decade to take full advantage of the battery boom and develop downstream manufacturing industries to take full value from Australia’s mineral riches.

Pursuit

Australia’s housing just isn’t good enough when it comes to dealing with winter temperatures – we need to take lessons from the Northern Hemisphere

Triple J Hack

Only 0.7 per cent of new cars sold in Australia are electric, compared to roughly 10 per cent in the UK and Europe. Norway is leading the world with an impressive 75 per cent of new cars sales being electric.

The Conversation

Vast, treeless paddocks and fields can be dangerous for wildlife, who encounter them as “roadblocks” between natural areas nearby. But our new research found even one lone tree in an otherwise empty paddock can make a huge difference to an animal’s movement.

ABC News

A $40 million development in Byron Bay is likely to hinge on whether or not the Land and Environment Court considers the site to be core koala habitat.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Colombo, Sri Lanka— Nearly 100 carcasses of turtles with throat and shell damage, as well as a dozen dead dolphins and a blue whale, have washed ashore in Sri Lanka since a container ship burnt and sank, raising fears of a severe marine disaster.

The Age

There’s something cruel about the amount of waste that goes into toys. Sure, the unwrapping and unboxing experience makes for great free advertising on YouTube. But those items generate a tonne of waste and single-use plastic which contribute heavily to climate change, which will inevitably make the lives of these children much, much harder. (“Here Hudson, enjoy your LOL Surprise toy now, and an increased likelihood your house will burn down in a ‘once-in-100-year’ bushfire when you’re older,” is perhaps not the ideal gift.)

News.com.au

LEGO is set to launch a revolutionary take on its cult favourite brick with a design feature sure to put a smile on the dial of the environmentally conscious.

Reneweconomy

Yet another member of the highly respected solar research and development team at the University of New South Wales has received international recognition, with UNSW Engineering Professor Thorsten Trupke this week winning the IEEE William Cherry Award.

News.com.au

Growing up in New South Wales’ coastal town of Newcastle, Katherine Hampton, 31, has always loved the water. But what she didn’t like was how hard it was to find well-fitting and flattering swimwear.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Eastern Australia, already soaked by big rain events and storms this year, could be in for more flooding as conditions in the Indian Ocean and Pacific tilt to favour increased rainfall.