Environment
Sustainability
Breeding wolverine heralds comeback for charismatic carnivore
They are among the most ferocious carnivores in Washington, capable of sniffing out frozen carcasses and tunnelling through feet of snow to crack open bones.
- by Lynda V. Mapes
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Water
'Crippling': NSW Labor parts ways with federal counterpart on Basin Plan
NSW Labor says an agreement to amend the $13b Murray Darling Basin Plan risks permanently crippling a key lake region in the state's far west.
- by Peter Hannam
Analysis
Water
If this is 'world's best' water management, we're all in trouble
The Turnbull government and federal Labor's deal to amend the $13 billion Murray Darling Basin Plan isn't the same thing as fixing it.
- by Peter Hannam
Water
Labor deal means Murray-Darling Basin Plan amendments to proceed
Environmental water savings for the country's main river system will be reduced by about a fifth after Labor sided with the Turnbull government.
- by Peter Hannam
Water
'Sensitivities': Federal agency cracks down against embarrassing leaks
The Murray-Darling Basin Authority has cracked down on unauthorised releases of information, blocking access to public email domains and launching probes.
- by Peter Hannam
Energy
Pollution from coal-fired power plants should be reviewed: NSW EPA
There's scope to tighten and make more consistent the pollution permitted from the state's five coal-fired power stations, the watchdog has found.
- by Peter Hannam
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Energy
Victorian regulator to audit energy companies over estimated bills
Essential Services Commission puts energy companies on notice over bills based on estimates rather than meter readings.
- by Debbie Cuthbertson
Recycling
How the MCG got ahead of the recycling game
It's waste not want not at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which is leading the way in reducing its environmental impact.
- by Debbie Cuthbertson
Opinion
Water
Plan to kill carp with herpes could prove as foolish as cane toad
The idea that there are reserve Dad’s Armies of citizens ready to retrieve many tonnes of decomposing fish smelling off-the-scale like the gates of Hades is beyond preposterous.
- by Simon Chapman
Recycling
'We need a real plan': Nine in 10 Australians want governments to act on recycling crisis
The sudden realisation our conscientious separation of paper and plastic for recycling will not be enough to fend of the crisis has Australians demanding governments step in.
- by Fergus Hunter & Debbie Cuthbertson
Canberra
A North Pole marathon and kangaroo culls in the ACT? There is a link
He stood in the 2016 ACT election to bring an end to the ACT's kangaroo culls. Now Marcus Fillinger has gone to the North Pole to get his message across.
- by Megan Doherty