Environment
'Peter Pan effect': Why reef-killing crown-of-thorns starfish more dangerous than previously thought
Juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish can live for years on a bleached reef eating algae before attacking when the coral returns, a study has found.
- by Nick O'Malley
Latest
Bushfires
Firies cleared for hazard reduction burns but with new hygiene rules
Bosses have told brigades to prioritise burns that benefit the wider community and they must work under new hygiene requirements.
- by Mark Solomons
NY zoo vet on confirmed cases of COVID in animals
The tiger that tested positive for the new coronavirus is the "first well-documented example of a person infecting an animal and an animal getting sick", said Dr. Paul Calle of the Bronx Zoo in New York. (April 6)
Pollution
Deadly pollutant surged by 3000 per cent at coal-fired power plant
New reports show that potentially deadly fine particle emissions are soaring from coal-fired power plants in Victoria, NSW and Queensland.
- by Nick O'Malley
Biodiversity
'Environmental vandalism': State's response to secret land audit blasted
A week after the NSW Agriculture Minister released the highly critical secret review of the new laws by the Natural Resources Commission the government has responded.
- by Peter Hannam
Paris Agreement
Coronavirus presents us with terrible climate risk - and opportunity
With the key Glasgow conference on emissions postponed and its venue turned into a field hospital, what now for international efforts to tackle climate change?
- by Nick O'Malley and Mike Foley
Good Weekend
The abnormal new normal: confronted by a cluster of threats this summer, is Antarctica at a tipping point?
Melting ice shelves, surging visitor numbers and geopolitical wrangling made the past year a turbulent one for Antarctica – which is also dealing with what some are calling “climate strange”.
- by Luke Slattery
Extreme weather
'First taste of winter': Southern parts of NSW get severe weather warning
Heavy rainfall, damaging winds and hail will threaten large parts of the state across Friday night and Saturday morning.
- by Matt Bungard
Coronavirus pandemic
Farming and conservation groups call for $4b post-pandemic jobs boost
A coalition of farming, land management and conservation groups is calling on Canberra and the states to back a package that could open up 24,000 rural jobs in a post-coronavirus world.
- by Nick O'Malley
Renewables
'Remarkable' jump in solar PV installations even as power prices eased
Australians installed solar panels on their roofs at a record rate last month, soaring almost half as much as the same month a year earlier.
- by Peter Hannam
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Beneath the virus lurks a bigger emergency, but the world is distracted from the climate threat
Australia's former foreign affairs minister writes that climate change has not paused for coronavirus; we will pretend it has at our peril.
- by Bob Carr