The Sydney Morning Herald

It’s a gruesome list: a monkey paw, whale ear bones, grey wolf and bear skins, elephant feet and orangutan skulls. All souvenirs people wanted to bring into Australia.

Manufacturers’ Monthly

The Victorian state government has announced a $31 million Business Recovery Energy Efficiency Fund to help manufacturing businesses reduce emissions and energy costs and retain employees using smart technologies.

The Guardian

One of Western Australia’s leading heritage experts says the government must toughen up its heritage laws in the wake of allegations that mining giant Rio Tinto allowed the dumping of priceless Aboriginal cultural materials and did not inform the traditional owners for 25 years.

ABC News

The first phase of the ACT's single-use plastic ban comes into effect this week, meaning plastic cutlery and some takeaway containers can no longer be supplied or sold in the ACT.

Reneweconomy

For many western countries, the United Kingdom has served as something of an aspiration when it comes to climate. The country has established a net zero by 2050 target, enshrined it in legislation, and also created an independent government body that issues advice on short-term targets – known as ‘carbon budgets’ – and the policies and changes required to achieve those short term targets.

Reneweconomy

Australia’s Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, is at his least comfortable when a moment calls for quick, decisive, morally and economically clear-headed action.

Reneweconomy

Alan Finkel closes the introduction of his recent Quarterly Essay with a quote from the Borg, a fictitious species from Star Trek: The Next Generation: “resistance is futile.” Finkel’s plea: stop “cave dwelling” and accept the unavoidable technological carbon revolution.

Yahoo News

In my first week as the BBC's new Australia correspondent in 2019, a state of emergency was declared in New South Wales. Bushfires blazed and came very close to Sydney.

The Canberra Times

There was a fair bit of commotion in Canberra last week, with a leadership spill in the National Party leading to Barnaby Joyce regaining the leadership.

Architecture and Design

World Environment Day 2021 was celebrated earlier this month with its theme based on ‘Ecosystem Restoration’ coinciding with the launch of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, and extending from planting trees and greening cities, to plant-based diets and regenerating degraded rivers, coasts and lands. There has never been a more poignant time than now amid the COVID-19 pandemic to appreciate what this means to corporates and individuals globally.

The Age

On the side of the Sturt Highway in Wagga Wagga this month, a milestone was reached. The old Caltex sign was taken down and replaced with a new one: “Ampol,” it said. Red letters on a white background. It was the 300th petrol station the company has rebadged since January.

Cosmos

What’s in a bottle of seawater? A simple sample can hold information about the presence of marine creatures in the local area – and may help conserve whale sharks.

The Conversation

On July 1, the New South Wales government will lift a ban on genetically modified (GM) crops after an 18-year moratorium. It will mean GM crops can now be grown in every Australian state except Tasmania.

ABC News

Keen angler Shea Bloom was devastated to find one of her favourite fishing holes choked with debris after bushfires ravaged the Upper Murray region, in north east Victoria but, a year later, it's stirring back to life.

The Sydney Morning Herald

An international study’s finding that toxic chemicals are widespread in popular make-up products has sparked alarm about whether enough is being done to protect consumers in Australia.

The Guardian

The government should be working to save the reef not fighting Unesco, marine experts say

SBS World News Australia

Australia's fifth intergenerational report will outline the federal government's policy priorities over the next 40 years, including on issues like climate change.

The Canberra Times

Canberra environmental volunteer organisations are set to have more financial security to carry out projects across the territory, following a multi-year funding deal as part of the upcoming ACT budget.

The Guardian

Australia’s government is still in denial, caught unawares by the tide of global opinion moving against it

The New Daily

The ‘net-zero emissions by 2050’ debate has torn down a Deputy Prime Minister and cleaved a deep split inside the government – but climate experts say the target is almost irrelevant and badly outdated.

The Sydney Morning Herald

A younger generation of philanthropists is driving a surge in donations to climate change charities, with the country’s biggest environmental advocacy groups almost doubling their revenue in a year.

ABC News

The booming Gold Coast population is putting so much pressure on local frogs it could wipe out some species and their habitats, researchers fear.

Yahoo News

A dozen of the world's smallest pigs have been released into the wild in northeastern India as part of a conservation programme to boost the population of a species once thought to have become extinct.

The New Daily

An eight-year-old fan’s wish came true this week when iconic toy manufacturer Lego unveiled its latest product: Bricks made from recycled plastic bottles.

Yahoo News

Oregon's largest city has broken its all-time heat record on Saturday, and it could beat the new mark on Sunday.

The Guardian

A Coalition government strategy to save Australia’s endangered wildlife has failed to meet targets to stem the decline of many birds, mammals and plants.

The Herald Sun

As the Andrews government eyes ways to cut LNG use and move to cleaner fuels, what does it mean for our stovetops and hot water systems?

The Sydney Morning Herald

For just a moment or two, one of the most famously garrulous politicians in the land seemed lost for words. “OK,” Barnaby Joyce began, looking a little twitchy in his black tie as he gazed down at the giant novelty cheque in his hands.

The Australian

Miner Whitehaven is struggling to secure debt and insurance cover as the finance industry curbs its exposure to coal.

The Australian

Australia has the fundamentals of a new multibillion-dollar industry built around carbon credits and offsets that could be sold around the world.

Yahoo News

When climate researcher Dailson Bertassoli went to measure greenhouse gas emissions at the Belo Monte hydropower plant in Brazil, the first thing he noticed was the bubbles.

ABC News

While many rural residents are relieved the use of a poison described as "napalm for mice" has been rejected, communities remain desperate for a stronger tool to fight the mouse plague.

ABC News

A wildlife refuge home to the critically endangered Kangaroo Island dunnart has officially been declared free of feral predators after a year of hard work from conservationists.

Yahoo News

A mammoth trek across southern China by a herd of elephants that has captivated the world with their playful antics has thrown a spotlight on the loss of their habitat and conservation challenges.

ABC News

For park ranger Wil Buch it's hard to believe bushfire could rage through the subtropical rainforests of south-eastern Queensland.

ABC News

Nestled beside one of Melbourne's busiest roads, sits the Bolin Bolin Billabong — a site of immense cultural significance for the traditional owners, the Wurundjeri people.

The Australian

The more you learn about cycads the more curious they are. These ancient plants were dinosaur food in their heyday 200 million years ago, when they made up about 20 per cent of plant life. Although they look like palms or ferns, they are related to neither. Cycads are in fact the earliest gymnosperms – plants that bear their “naked” seeds in cones rather than flowers. This makes them closer relatives to conifers such as pine, spruce and our own ancient Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis).

The Australian

Don’t blame cows – the solution to reducing methane and carbon levels lies under our feet.

Yahoo News

As the search for survivors of the collapse of a 12-story beachfront condominium in Surfside, Fla., continued on Friday, building experts began looking at the possibility that sea level rise caused by climate change may have contributed to the disaster that has left at least four people dead and 159 missing.

The Guardian

New South Wales’ use of environmental offsets to compensate for habitat destruction caused by major developments will be examined by a parliamentary inquiry.

Drive

New regulations are expected to be introduced which would inhibit the sale of new passenger cars in Europe powered by petrol and diesel.

The Conversation

Soil carbon is in the spotlight in Australia. A key plank in the Morrison government’s technology-led emissions reduction policy, it involves changing farming techniques so soils store more carbon from the atmosphere.

Cosmos

Ever wondered where your trifling flight-offset payment goes? And whether the passenger in the next seat paid to offset? In this game, mysteries abound…

Reneweconomy

It’s official. After a decade of delays, protests and acrimonious debate, followed by two years of expensive construction work, Indian conglomerate Adani has finally got its hands on some actual Queensland coal.

The Age

People who live among the temperate rain forests of the Dandenong Ranges – home to soaring trees of mountain ash, pines and tree ferns – know their lifestyle comes with risks.

The Australian

You’d think fans of frogs would be a sub-species, as it were, of nature lovers, but quite the opposite applies. I have just become one thanks to a new book titled Croak, compiled by Phil Bishop, with an eastern stony creek frog on the cover, not that I can pretend I knew that right away. It’s a photographic compilation put together across decades of international travel and amphibian research by Bishop, who died earlier this year after a brief illness, just before taking on a role as head of the Zoology Department of the University of Otago, New Zealand, where he’d been a senior professor.

Yahoo News

Trees which have stood for over 500 years could be bulldozed if a Chinese mining company's plan to build a waste dump in Tasmania is approved.

Yahoo News

Damage to Sri Lanka's marine environment from a sinking chemical ship is worse than feared, officials said Friday, as more dead turtles, dolphins and whales washed up on the island's beaches.

The Age

A scientist has questioned plans to send the West Gate Tunnel’s contaminated soil to landfill, arguing a more sustainable method that treats and recycles the waste should be adopted for future tunnelling projects.