Environment
Sustainability
Recycling may become an essential service for Victorians
Recycling may become an essential service like water and energy, with Environment Minister Lily D'Ambrosio ordering a review of the troubled industry.
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Farming
'We're digging a hole for future generations': chemical-free solutions to weed and bug problems
For many households, Roundup has long been an easy answer to the problem of weeds.
- by Matt Bungard
Opinion
Water restrictions
Sydney has to get serious about water recycling
Plenty of other cities recycle drinking water.
- by James Hulme
Water restrictions
'Low-hanging fruit have gone': Big dry could trigger desal expansion
The Berejiklian government is facing calls to accelerate the shift to water restrictions to slow the decline in Sydney's dam levels rather than flicking the switch to expand the city's $2.3 billion desalination plant.
- by Peter Hannam
Opinion
Population
Why environmentalists don't talk much about population
It's important to reverse the global population growth, but it doesn't let us off the hook for reducing consumption.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
City life
Call for Sydney to be managed as an 'urban forest'
Sydney needs an ambitious tree-planting program in suburban areas to boost human health and provide wildlife habitat, as part of a shift to manage cities as “urban forests”.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Good Weekend
Like it or not, influencers' show-and-tell antics put planet at risk
Certain places have become so Instagram-famous, via geo-tagging, that their survival is threatened.
- by Amelia Lester
Water
Emergency water assistance readied for 'tomato town'
The Berejiklian government is preparing to truck water to a Northern Tablelands town facing the prospect of running out of water before a pipeline to a nearby reservoir is finished.
- by Peter Hannam
Water
'Worse than expected': WaterNSW calls for mining curbs in Sydney's catchment
NSW's top water agency has called for curbs on two big coal mines in Sydney's catchment, saying millions of litres of water are being lost daily.
- by Peter Hannam
Australia votes
Queensland shoots down reports of new Adani groundwater review
The state government says it has not begun another review of Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine and wants the latest information from CSIRO.
- by Tony Moore
Water
NSW water woes worsen with river to dry up as tomato town faces crisis
The drought gripping much of NSW is tightening, forcing authorities to prepare to cease flows along a major river in the state's north west.
- by Peter Hannam