Why Australia's environmental laws aren't working
The future of the koala is at stake after a New South Wales parliamentary inquiry has warned they could be extinct in that state within...
Night parrot found to have poor vision, keeps running into things in the dark
Australia's elusive night parrot may be in decline because the species has trouble seeing in the dark, a team of researchers has found....
Logging and fire both make forests more flammable
The clear and overwhelming evidence is that logging makes forests more flammable. These are the findings of four peer-reviewed, published...
Australia’s logging ‘madness’ fuels more fires, hastens ecosystem collapse
A thick, acrid scent of smoke marks the last summer season in Australia, which has become known as the “black summer.” Between June 2019...
Logging Fueled Last Year's Catastrophic Megafires In Australia And Could Spark Repeats
From the Amazon to Siberia wildfires set much of the world ablaze in 2019, with some areas suffering the largest burns ever recorded....
Preventing pandemics, global warming and environmental degradation all at once
The Earth and its inhabitants face three global crises: the pandemic crisis, the climate crisis and biodiversity crisis. Unto themselves,...
Biodiversity offsetting requires lots of land
This guest blog by Laura Sonter, Jeremy Simmonds, James Watson and Martine Maron examines why avoiding impacts is a better solution to...
Saving endangered species: Now we must focus on ecosystem health
It’s been almost a decade since nations from across the globe convened in Aichi Prefecture of Japan for a meeting of the Convention on...
Humanity's footprint is squashing the world's wildlife
The planet's wildlife is increasingly living under the boot of humankind, a new study claims. A group of researchers from the Wildlife...
‘Intense’ human pressure is widespread among terrestrial vertebrates, study finds
A new study assessing the cumulative impacts of human activities on wildlife found that the vast majority of terrestrial species are...