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Water
Where to find a clean swimming spot after a wet year muddies the state’s waters
Swimmers hoping to escape the coming long hot summer will have to contend with surges in pollution in rivers and beaches caused by a year of heavy rains.
- by Laura Chung
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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
NSW and federal governments urged to act on feral horses in high country
A majority on the Senate environment committee also called for the Albanese government to boost state funding for management of the alpine environment.
- by Mike Foley
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Alcoa investigation
WA government to keep Alcoa mining until environmental watchdog’s judgement
The Cook government plans a new environmental approval regime to keep besieged bauxite miner Alcoa operating but has promised standards will not be lowered.
- by Peter Milne
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Climate policy
‘Planetary boundaries’ set the limits of economic freedom
All economic activity – all the efforts of humans to earn a living – both depends on the natural environment and adversely affects it.
- by Ross Gittins
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Pollution
The factory that contaminated the world with a forever chemical
Most Australians have paid the price after a US manufacturer deliberately covered up the hazardous effects of one of its widely used compounds, legal documents show.
- by Carrie Fellner
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GDP
We need economic growth to make us better off, right? Well, actually ...
Unending growth in the economy simply isn’t physically possible, and the more we keep growing the more we’ll damage the natural environment, to our great cost.
- by Ross Gittins
WA to end commercial logging of native forests
Western Australia has joined Victoria in banning commercial logging of native forests from next year.
- by Kathryn Magann
Cool island: Why Wilsons Prom is a perfect climate refuge
A 10-kilometre predator-proof fence will turn the most southerly point on mainland Australia into a climate refuge for rare and endangered species.
- by Miki Perkins
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
America’s second-largest landowner is a media mogul gone wild
For decades, the creator of CNN has quietly been buying up great swathes of the American wilderness with one goal in mind: saving it.
- by Rob McFarland