Australia has suffered dozens of extreme weather events since early 2023 including cyclones, floods, wildfires, and heatwaves. Each time the people are issued a hollow call to ‘prepare’.
Tim Bonyhady's 'The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat: A Rodent History of Australia' shows how wilful ignorance has ravaged a nation’s indigenous species.
'With little more than an overnight bag, our phones and laptops, Geoff and I found ourselves standing with ash on our faces, smoke in our hair, and in a new world shifted on its axis.'
Australian mining companies have a poor track record operating in Africa. Australian uranium company Paladin Energy has now put two of its mines into 'care-and-maintenance' and bankruptcy looms. But who cleans up the company's mess in Namibia and Malawi, asks JIM GREEN
An intense war is being fought between woody vines and native trees in fragmented rainforests, according to new research. The chopping down of rainforest is exacerbating the problem and could lead to significant changes in the ecology and dynamics of these tropical eco-systems, reports CATHERINE HARTE
Australia recently opened one of its largest marine reserves in the hopes that increased fishing will stimulate the economy. However, human contact with this previously untouched reserve could greatly affect the health of the ecosystem and species in it, argues EMILY FOLK
Greater Manchester Authorities has launched an immediate probe into its investments after an investigation by The Ecologist revealed it was funding the company behind the world's biggest, and most controversial, coal mine. JAN GOODEY reports.
How do you solve the problem of ‘retired' mine pits aka huge abandoned holes in the ground? Turning them into lakes is a popular solution but maybe not the best one says ANICA NIEPRASCK who should know since she grew up in the Lausitz region of Germany in a community surrounded by these massive, dangerous and polluting land holes
