Environment
Sustainability
Opinion
Renewables
Green is the new black: how renewables and storage will replace coal
What the community really needs is for government and industry to get on with building Australia’s future energy system.
- by Lachlan Blackhall
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Biodiversity
New Perth study urges gardeners to pass on the grass
Maintenance of lawns negates any environmental positives they have according to a new study but the turf industry says the authors didn't consider the wider benefits enough.
- by Hamish Hastie
Water
Condemnation for cotton farmer after guilty plea to water theft
A major irrigator on the Barwon-Darling has pleaded guilty to three charges involving water misuse, including pumping during an embargo, following a lengthy investigation.
- by Peter Hannam
Pollution
'Scandal': NSW coal power plants will kill thousands before they close
Air pollution from NSW's five coal-fired power stations carry a "substantial health burden", including leading to an estimated 279 deaths a year with thousands more to come before they close.
- by Peter Hannam
Animals
Dead whale had 115 plastic cups, 2 flip-flops in its stomach
Researchers found 115 plastic cups, four plastic bottles, 25 plastic bags, 2 flip-flops, a nylon sack and more than 1000 other assorted pieces of plastic in the stomach of a whale that washed ashore in eastern Indonesia.
Waste
Saving food from deep burial
Katy Barfield once rescued 27 tonnes of yellowfin tuna from deep burial.
- by Jewel Topsfield
Waste
‘Impending plasticide’: Emergency tax tipped as waste crisis deepens
Australia’s waste crisis is tipped to deepen, with global wealth manager Credit Suisse predicting the federal government will intervene within two years.
- by Jewel Topsfield
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Biodiversity
Bush turns its back on support for logging native forests
Harvesting of native forests is overwhelmingly unpopular, including in rural and regional communities, according to a leaked study commissioned by the timber industry.
- by Peter Hannam
Brisbane River
'Champion' needed to break slow SEQ water quality decline: ecologists
Despite some improvements in some rivers Brisbane residents remain apathetic about being able to make improvements to the Brisbane River.
- by Tony Moore
Renewables
Newcastle City Council, UTS join the stampede into solar energy
Two new solar farms add to the growing surge in the renewable energy source in NSW – and abroad.
- by Peter Hannam
Waste
The number one recycling mistake Australians are still making
The most common recycling mistake made by Australians is to throw soft plastics, such as bread bags, into the kerbside recycling bin.
- by Jewel Topsfield