Recent Australian wildfires made worse by logging and associated forest management
The recent fires in southern Australia were unprecedented in scale and severity. Much commentary has rightly focused on the role of...
Renewable energy production will exacerbate mining threats to biodiversity
Renewable energy production is necessary to halt climate change and reverse associated biodiversity losses. However, generating the...
Mining needed for renewable energy 'could harm biodiversity'
Study warns sites must be protected in search for materials to build infrastructure. The mining necessary for producing renewable energy...
Renewable energy can save the natural world – but if we’re not careful, it will also hurt it
A vast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy is crucial to slowing climate change. But building solar panels, wind turbines...
Night parrot located by KJ rangers on Martu country in the Pilbara
Rangers in Western Australia's remote northern salt lake country have found one of the world's most elusive birds, which was once thought...
Protecting 30% of planet could bolster economy, study says
Nearly a third of the world’s oceans and land area could be placed under environmental protections without harming the global economy,...
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...