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.

Ex-state agronomists demand axing of Shenhua coal mine

Protests aren't like to let up after the NSW government paid off Shenhua for only part of its exploration licence.

Claims that Shenhua's restricted coal mining will avoid affecting the aquifers of the rich farmlands of the Liverpool Plains are "false and ignorant", former state and private agronomists have said in a letter to Premier Gladys Berejiklian.

Berrima pollution a warning for other mines: scientist

Downstream of the Berrima Coal mine.

The paucity of independent monitoring of waste water from coal mines in NSW is leaving communities exposed to decades of pollution, long after mining operations have ceased, Ian Wright, a leading water ecologist, said.

Rich must help poor nations prepare for extreme events

Volunteers handle coffins during a mass funeral for victims of heavy flooding and mudslides in Regent at a cemetery in ...

Weather agencies including Australia's must step up cooperation to close a "widening gap in capacity" with developing nations, with the urgency of action increasing as the planet heats up, David Grimes, president of the World Meteorological Organization, says.

Incinerator boss defends pollution record

Ian Malouf denied asbestos would end up in the incinerator, planned for western Sydney.

The controversial waste management magnate behind plans to build a massive "energy from waste incinerator" near homes in western Sydney defended his environmental track record before a fiery parliamentary inquiry into the safety of the proposal on Thursday.

Pollution from coal-fired power reveals a 'black hole'

A survey of 10 of Australia's biggest coal-fired power stations finds them lagging internationally on most areas of ...

Australia's biggest coal-fired power stations are permitted to dump toxic pollutants on nearby populations far in excess of overseas counterparts, even those in China, a survey by Environmental Justice Australia reveals.