Environment
Sustainability
Frogs face mass destruction from imported disease: ANU scientists
The pandemic ripping through populations of frogs, toads and other amphibians.
- by Steve Evans
Latest
Recycling
Australia faces deepening recycling crisis as India bans plastic waste imports
India will stop taking Australia's plastic rubbish a year after China’s drastic restrictions sparked a national recycling crisis. So where will we send our plastic bottles?
- by Jewel Topsfield
Opinion
High school
Tahlia believed she had no future. And then came learning, hands on
Tahlia Heinrich could see nothing but failure for herself in school, and refused to attend. Then she was saved by a simple but revolutionary program.
- by Tony Wright
Pollution
Viva cops 'significant' fine for 'foreseeable' Sydney Harbour oil spill
Viva Energy has been fined $100,000 for an oil spill in Sydney Harbour that took more than six months to clean up and was described by a judge as 'foreseeable'.
- by Peter Hannam
Animal cruelty
Australia bans use of data from animal tests in cosmetics
More than 500,000 animals – mainly rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, rats and mice – suffer and die in cruel and outdated tests of cosmetic ingredients globally each year.
- by Steve Jacobs
Darling disaster
'River debt' means Barwon-Darling recovery likely to lag rain's return
The recovery in the health of major rivers such as the Barwon-Darling is likely to be delayed well after the return of good rainfall because of policy changes.
- by Peter Hannam
Pollution
'Drives me insane': lack of information exposes Sydney's river users
Calls for Sydney's waterways to be treated the same as our beaches in terms of telling the public when it's safe - or not - to take a dip.
- by Peter Hannam
NSW Votes
'Disappointing': Last-minute pipeline, land-clearing changes rile foes
The final Berejiklian government moves before entering caretaker mode included easing the way for a gas pipeline to the proposed Narrabri coal seam gasfield and easing the rules of clearing native vegetation.
- by Peter Hannam
Pollution
'Elevated concentrations of methane' in Sydney Park
One of the largest recreational areas in Sydney has been declared to be "significantly contaminated land".
- by Peter Hannam
Darling disaster
'Travesty': fourth fish kill looms as study finds phantom water savings
Residents at Menindee are bracing for a fourth mass fish kill in the Darling River in about three months, as a new paper finds water savings in the Murray Darling Basin may be just one-tenth the amount modelled.
- by Peter Hannam
Opinion
Disability
Watch who draws the short straw in war on plastic
Plastic drinking straws have become a political wedge issue, with environmentalists and disability rights advocates at odds.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons