Environment

Environment

Fears that 'significant' coral mortality is still to come

Eyes are on us: Coral bleaching has returned to the Great Barrier Reef - and other reefs - in 2017.

The world is 33 months into its biggest recorded coral bleaching event with little sign of it ending, raising the prospect that coral mortality on the Great Barrier Reef will increase "significantly" from the quarter already lost in the past year, scientists say.

Save the elephants

In Kenya, a new anti-poaching offensive is "blending counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency tactics" to protect elephants.

Every 15 minutes, an elephant is killed by poachers in Africa. Despite this, there is new cause for optimism.

Mine rehabilitation is 'inadequate and vague'

Hunter Valley coal mines: Rehabilitation arrangements have come under scrutiny.

Provisions to rehabilitate the state's 450 mines in NSW are inadequate, their required outcomes vague, and the risks of long-term failure are uncovered, according to a report by the Auditor-General.