Environment
Indonesia's oceans of plastic
Reporter Latika Bourke dived Wakatobi - a marine park comprising four islands off South East Sulawesi, Indonesia - and described it as "less scuba with sea creatures and more swimming with plastic".
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Animals
Versace to drop fur from its fashions, Donatella Versace says
Versace has traditionally included fur from a variety of species, including mink and fox, across its ranges.
- by Steve Jacobs
Extreme weather
The temperature is rising ... and so is the death toll
Extreme weather events such as severe heatwaves, bushfires and supercharged storms are placing Australian lives at risk.
- by Professor Hilary Bambrick
Global warming
'Game changer': New vulnerability to climate change in ocean food chain
An unusually broad range of scientific fields has identified a new risk to a key set of species at the bottom of the food chain from climate change.
- by Peter Hannam
Recycling
Calls for federal intervention as waste 'crisis' spreads to NSW
The crisis facing the waste recycling industry in Australia is deepening as calls mount for Canberra to intervene.
- by Peter Hannam
Extreme weather
Warmer Arctic winters linked to more 'Snowzillas' in US north-east
The warming Arctic Ocean is linked to a two- to four-fold increase in the frequency of severe winter storms in the eastern US, a new paper finds.
- by Peter Hannam
Opinion
Renewables
So much for voluntary reporting: companies fail to come clean over climate risk
Almost a year after companies were encouraged to come clean over the financial risks climate change poses to their business, barely a handful have acted.
- by Julien Vincent
Local council
Fed-up Stonnington Council plans bond to save trees
A Melbourne council is so frustrated by developers and property owners felling or damaging trees without permission that it wants to bring in tree bonds.
- by Madeleine Heffernan
Weather
Sydney weather: Parts of city cop heaviest falls in five years
Parts of Sydney have had their biggest dump of rain in five years, helping to soak gardens still dry after a prolonged spell of below-average falls.
- by Peter Hannam
Planning
'Vulnerable': Climate change threatens Wollongong homes, WIN Stadium
Dozens of homes and public assets are at risk from rising sea levels and inundation along the Illawarra coastline.
- by Peter Hannam
Cars
'We'll be left behind': Greens want 2030 ban on fossil-fuel car sales
Sales of new petrol and diesel-powered cars would be banned by 2030 to spur take-up of electric vehicles, according to a Greens plan pitched at Batman voters.
- by Peter Hannam