Environment
Sustainability
‘Everywhere’s bad’: Farmers eye long campaign against mouse plague
Farmers across inland NSW are bracing for a long battle against the mouse plague with any lull during winter expected to be reversed once spring brings renewed food supplies as crops ripen.
- by Peter Hannam
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They told Leonardo Parisi to cut down the trees. Which ones? ‘All of them’
Two generations later, Len Parisi is determined to undo the harm caused to the Great Barrier Reef by his forefathers.
- by Nick O'Malley
Pressure mounts to broaden ban on plastic cotton buds
Water authorities around Australia say people flushing cotton buds down the toilet are creating one of their biggest headaches for sewage treatment, fuelling calls for a national ban on the plastic-stemmed swabs.
- by Peter Hannam
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Emissions
Renewable gas may soon join renewable electricity as household staples
Households in NSW and beyond may soon be able to select renewable gas just as they can buy their electricity from clean energy sources once the nation’s first voluntary market comes on.
- by Peter Hannam
‘Toxic timebombs’: The problem with the plan to stop the mouse plague
A highly toxic poison being released to control the mouse plague could have serious effects on farm animals and wildlife but do little to curb the rodent explosion.
- by Peter Hannam
Opinion
Electric cars
Free rego and $15,000 loans: How to encourage electric vehicle ownership
Governments need to make electric vehicles more accessible to more people.
- by Shane Rattenbury
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NSW mouse plague
Farmers finding novel ways to cope with devastating mouse plague
When the cats have given up and the dogs are at risk of dying from eating rodent poison, farmers across inland Australia have had no choice but to improvise.
- by Peter Hannam
From desert to inland sea as 800 billion litres flows into Menindee Lakes
Menindee Lakes, one of the largest lake systems in the Murray-Darling Basin, are filling fast with the biggest inflows in five years, allowing releases into the Baaka-Darling River downstream.Â
- by Peter Hannam
‘All about evolution’: Here’s what to do with a dead power station
Wallerawang near Lithgow on the western edge of the Blue Mountains is home to a defunct power plant that may have lessons for the fleet of shutdowns yet to come.
- by Peter Hannam
Goldminer in talks to convert 192-megalitre water licence for new pit
The proponent of a new gold mine in the state’s Central West is pressing the NSW government to hand over a large water licence that opponents say would damage the environment and farming.
- by Peter Hannam
‘Like the anti-climate change brigade’: Water scientists under attack
A large group of water researchers has been accused of acting like a consulting consortium, a stance they reject.
- by Peter Hannam