by bpckle | Mar 21, 2023 | Media
Australia has 116 new coal, oil and gas projects in the pipeline. If they all proceed as planned, an extra 1.4 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases would be released into the atmosphere annually by 2030. To put that in perspective, Australia’s total domestic greenhouse...
by bpckle | Mar 21, 2023 | Media
One bird bucks the stereotype of Australia’s raucous parrots – the mysterious and critically endangered night parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis). Rather than flying around in noisy flocks or eating fruit in trees, the night parrot roosts all day in a clump of sharp...
by bpckle | Mar 21, 2023 | Media
Safety group documents 57 serious incidents worldwide this year that injured 97 people and killed eightFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAlmost 100 people have been...
by bpckle | Mar 21, 2023 | Media
Government urged to ratify UN convention in order to protect undersea areas like shipwrecks and now-submerged First Nations heritage sitesFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news...
by bpckle | Mar 20, 2023 | Media
ShutterstockSome 70% of the World Heritage-listed Lord Howe Island has been closed to non-essential visitors in response to a recurrence of the plant disease myrtle rust. Myrtle rust, native to South America, was first detected in Australia on the Central Coast of NSW...
by bpckle | Mar 20, 2023 | Media
Thanks in no small part to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), today few people would be foolish enough to dispute the scientific consensus on the climate crisis. But as recently as a decade ago that wasn’t the case. The IPCC is a vast...
by bpckle | Mar 20, 2023 | Media
Documents show regulators backed down on health advice regarding dust after it was “contested” by the mining giant.
by bpckle | Mar 20, 2023 | Media
By the time Australia gets its first nuclear-powered submarines, ecological collapse will already have reshaped world politicsUnder the terms of the government’s nuclear submarine purchase, the first Australian-built Aukus class vessels come into service in the early...
by bpckle | Mar 20, 2023 | Media
Selling their family farm to a carbon developer, Luke and Ally Quartermaine want to be part of the solution to reduce cattle industry emissions.
by bpckle | Mar 20, 2023 | Media
Historian Dan Snow pleads for person to come forward who removed head from animal washed up on Lepe beachAn appeal has been launched to recover the head of a rare smalltooth sand tiger shark after the fish was washed up on a Hampshire beach.The 2 metre (6ft) long...
by bpckle | Mar 19, 2023 | Media
The tiger, found outside the Athens Zoo in Greece, is believed the be victim of illegal wildlife trade.
by bpckle | Mar 19, 2023 | Media
Aboriginal rangers who patrol Preminghana in Tasmania’s far north-west say it’s being destroyed, little by little, by four-wheel drivers and bikers who stray from the tracks.
by bpckle | Mar 19, 2023 | Media
Research into critically endangered orange-bellied parrot finds 1mm difference in length of one feather is enough to reduce survival rate by 2.7 timesFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily...
by bpckle | Mar 19, 2023 | Media
From elephants to tigers, study reveals scale of damage to wildlife caused by transformation of wildernesses and human activity The total weight of Earth’s wild land mammals – from elephants to bisons and from deer to tigers – is now less than 10% of the combined...
by bpckle | Mar 18, 2023 | Media
Tasmanian police have identified three youths in relation to the killing and mistreatment of penguins a week ago in Burnie in the state’s north.
by bpckle | Mar 18, 2023 | Media
Authorities have confirmed the overall scale and size of this mass fish kill eclipses similar events in 2018 and 2019.
by bpckle | Mar 18, 2023 | Media
Since 2001, 7% of the habitat has been lost globally due to logging, wildfires and agriculture, scientists reportAn area of mountain forest larger than the state of Texas has been lost since 2001, with the amount disappearing each year accelerating at an “alarming”...
by bpckle | Mar 17, 2023 | Media
House of Lords to rule on divisive legislation that would stop import of endangered animals’ body partsMPs have voted to support a controversial ban on importing hunting trophies from thousands of species into the UK, preventing British hunters from bringing the body...
by bpckle | Mar 17, 2023 | Media
Shutterstock After all the talk on the need for climate action, it’s time for a reality check. On Monday the world will receive the latest United Nations climate report. And it’s a big one. Hundreds of scientists, forming what’s known as the Intergovernmental Panel on...
by bpckle | Mar 17, 2023 | Media
Australians are among the top consumers of bottled water globally and we are paying the most for it, a new UN report shows.
