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environment June 14, 2025
How to integrate communities to improve flood response
In a first-time coordination with emergency services, the people of the Mid North Coast are pulling through the flood disaster. They now face the aftermath, with no insurance and inadequate government aid.
environment May 25, 2024
The seaweed product that could replace plastic
A multinational team based in Perth is surging ahead in the global race for a solution to plastic waste, with its development of a compostable product made from seaweed.
environment April 6, 2024
Farmers push back against planned waste incinerator
A planned waste incinerator has opened a new front on community resistance to green energy projects, as local farmers fear its toxins will poison the produce they sell.
environment March 30, 2024
Gender strategy fails climate test
Climate-fuelled disasters disproportionately affect women and girls and will undo progress towards gender equality, unless something is done now to protect hard-won gains.
environment February 10, 2024
Predicting climate change with octopus DNA
The DNA of an octopus has helped scientists better understand the threat to a vast ice sheet in the Antarctic, and the potential for a catastrophic rise in sea levels.
environment December 23, 2023
Saving endangered wildlife on Kangaroo Island
Hunched over home computers or hiking with apps in hand, citizen scientists are doing their bit for the imperilled wildlife of Kangaroo Island. Their quest to help save endangered species may well also prove to be the key to our own survival.
environment December 16, 2023
Saving the banana from a deadly fungus
Australian scientists are on the verge of a world first, engineering a genetically modified banana to thwart the rampant spread of a fungus that poses a global risk to food security.
environment October 21, 2023
Australia must act now to raise climate targets
Australian leaders need to step up, put party politics to one side and make the decisions required to help the world stop sliding into a global warming catastrophe.
environment September 30, 2023
Establishing Australia’s first commercial kelp farm
After establishing one of Australia’s most successful craft breweries, Cam Hines’s next project is Australia’s first commercial kelp farm, off the Victorian coast.
environment July 1, 2023
Underwater sculptures preserving the Great Barrier Reef
Eco-artist Jason deCaires Taylor’s latest underwater sculptures are helping to preserve the Great Barrier Reef, and constantly evolving as hosts for corals and other sea creatures.
environment June 3, 2023
At certain times of the year, volunteers can be found roaming Canberra’s bush reserves bearing raw chicken carcasses – all in the name of saving the local apex predator.
