Environment
Huge waves smash Hawaii
Huge waves have smashed Hawaii, crashing into homes and a wedding celebration during wild south swell.
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The five graphics that explain the State of the Environment report
The gang-gang cockatoo is among the more than 200 plants and animals that have been added to the threatened species list. Here are the other grim findings.
- by Laura Chung
Analysis
State of Environment
Australia more willing to catalogue destruction of natural heritage than to preserve it
The nation’s latest environmental report card is out, and the news is bad. Ecosystems are collapsing at a terrifying rate. But the damage can be reversed.
- by Nick O'Malley
From mussels to ancient fish, WA freshwater species plummet
River flows in WA’s South West region have fallen 70 per cent in 50 years and for previously widespread species like Carter’s freshwater mussel, time is running out.
- by Peter de Kruijff
Could a bigger dam save Sydney from flooding? The question confronting the city
As thousands of residents turn their attention to the mammoth clean-up effort after heavy rain and flash flooding smashed them for the third time this year, the question over whether the Warragamba Dam wall should be raised has reared its head again.
- by Laura Chung
Inside the war room where the fight against the varroa mite is raging
From an office block in rural NSW the battle to save Australia’s honey bees from destruction is being waged.
- by Laura Chung
Opinion
Gender
Fed up with the chore wars, grumpy women are now politically dangerous
The federal government has been warned: the importance of domestic democracy in underpinning gender equality is one issue that most people agree on. Lack of action could be dangerous.
- by Kristine Ziwica
Analysis
IPCC
So you want to host a COP? How to win the UN climate talks
Australia has taken its first steps to secure the rights to co-host the UN’s key climate talks with its Pacific neighbours, but there is a long and complicated path ahead.
- by Nick O'Malley
‘A complicated murder mystery’: What’s killing Sydney’s frogs?
As hundreds of people report sick and dead frogs across Australia, scientists are yet to find the cause of a second wave in what they call a “frog pandemic”.
- by Angus Thomson