In this post-truth environment, the interests of coal and gas are somehow able to win the hearts and minds of voters Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast During the last parliament I negotiated an
Offsets were meant to be a last resort for mitigating environmental damage from development projects, but rapidly became the default Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The federal government risks
Exclusive: Growth has been steady even since Trump’s re-election, building on increase from $20bn to $157bn, says thinktank Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Surging Australian demand for
Once escapees from the pet trade, Los Angeles’s feral parrots have become a vibrant part of city life, and could even aid conservation in their native homelands A morning mist hung over the palm trees as birds chattered and cars roared by on the streets of Pasadena. It was a
Area’s MP says it would cost more than local council’s annual budget to remove the 10-metre high pile of waste Fly-tippers have dumped a “mountain of illegal waste” in Oxfordshire so large that removing it could cost more than the local council’s annual budget, the area’s MP
In January the island’s beaches were inundated with waves of plastic pollution, a phenomenon that has been getting worse by the year. Photographer and film-maker Sean Gallagher travelled to Bali to document the increasing tide of rubbish washing up on beaches and riverbanks,
Sonia Guajajara tells Cop30 the rights of traditional communities must be maintained in the face of exploitation by the mining industry Countries must recognise the demarcation of Indigenous lands as a key component of tackling the climate crisis, and civil society must help in
A huge cleanup effort has seen volunteers working to remove beads by hand and machine. They can only wait and see the extent of damage to wildlife and dune habitat Just past a scrum of dog walkers, about 40 people are urgently combing through the sand on hands and knees. Their
Ford denies having created ‘defeat devices’ in legal action on behalf of 1.6 million owners against five carmakers About a million Ford diesel cars were sold in the UK with serious defects in components supposed to curb toxic exhaust emissions, the high court has been told. The
With a reported boom in people becoming snake handlers, Guardian Australia's Joe Hinchcliffe attended a venomous snake handling course in Queensland to investigate what's involved in training to wrangle some of the world's deadliest snakes. Christina Zdenek and Chris Hay, the
