Biodiversity
Like sculptures in the sea, artificial reef brings hope to threatened shoreline
Alien-like dome sculptures are helping preserve sea life and the marine environment at a beach in Victoria.
- by Benjamin Preiss
Latest
Sydney park cleans up with prestigious award
Meet the Australian landscape architects moving away from “making beautiful things and scenery to being about change”.
- by Julie Power
Perspective
City life
Yes, Brissie backyards come with snakes. Removing them creates another risk
There’s a perception that snakes don’t belong in urban environments and that, if spotted, need to be relocated. Should we rethink that?
- by Courtney Kruk
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Gas
Turtles, toxic PFAS and quarantine: Probes target Chevron’s Gorgon
The US gas giant’s operation on Western Australia’s Barrow Island is being investigated for beach erosion, contamination and biodiversity-threatening breaches.
- by Peter Milne
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Marine life
Perth’s lost tourism opportunity: The report ignored until penguins paid the price
Documents WAtoday has obtained under freedom of information laws have revealed a litany of government indecision, money wastage and animal welfare failures.
- by Emma Young and Holly Thompson
It’s not just you. A perfect storm of conditions means Sydney is being inundated with flies
An abundance of nectar and an increase in sweaty people are providing an all-you-can-drink buffet for flies.
- by Laura Chung
Trapping, shooting and poisoning: Push to protect Victorian dingoes falls short
The state government will extend a so-called un-protection order – which allows dingoes to be shot or baited in some circumstances – for at least 12 months.
- by Alex Crowe
Scientists, First Nations groups demand better protection for dingoes
Researchers argue the characterisation of dingoes as “wild dogs” is wrong and that continued lethal control of dingo populations could challenge their survival.
- by Alex Crowe
‘Mind-blowing’: Sea-ice levels at historic low in Antarctica
Without its ice cooling the planet, Antarctica could transform from earth’s refrigerator to a radiator.
- by Harriet Barber
Logging ‘carnage’ in endangered greater glider habitat
Though logging operations in one glider habitat have been suspended and some koala habitat is being protected, environmentalists say key habitat is still being felled.
- by Nick O'Malley
Logging suspended in proposed Great Koala National Park
Logging has been suspended in koala hubs inside the Great Koala National Park, but activists fears the chainsaws will just relocate to other critical areas.
- by Nick O'Malley