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.

Deeper carbon cuts for power sector would cut prices: RepuTex

The debate over the Clean Energy Target overlooks the low target on offer, Reputex says.

A weak Clean Energy Target (CET) would shift the emissions reduction burden away from the electricity sector, undermine investor certainty, and potentially leave power stations pumping out pollution into the next century, according to analysis by RepuTex.

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.