Biodiversity
Australia was stripped bare by feral animals. This sanctuary is reversing decades of damage
Like stepping inside a time machine, Newhaven in the Northern Territory offers a glimpse of Australia before Europeans arrived.
- by Nick O'Malley and Nick Moir
Latest
Would you swim at a Sydney beach without a shark net?
The high number of non-target species caught in shark nets this year has renewed calls from experts to ditch the nets.
- by Laura Chung
Labor’s environment movement at odds with Plibersek over conservation
The Albanese government is being urged to create an independent overseer of development decisions. But Tanya Plibersek has instead committed to establishing a new agency.
- by Mike Foley
Sunny Corner mine was abandoned a century ago. It’s still a toxic ‘deadly’ mess
Mining companies must pay a bond to the state before they touch the soil. But is it enough?
- by Laura Chung and Brook Mitchell
Venomous fire ants could spread nationwide as eradication funding stalls
The potentially deadly pest is poised to march across the country after governments failed to agree on a funding package to continue an eradication program.
- by Mike Foley
Why this little digger’s return to Sydney is so important
Eastern bettongs haven’t roamed mainland Australia for 100 years. Now they’re running around western Sydney.
- by Laura Chung
From a lab to the moon: Growing plants in outer space
The plants will make the 300,000-kilometre journey in 2026, but there are a few challenges facing scientists before then.
- by Laura Chung
Return of El Nino spells trouble for Great Barrier Reef coral-bleaching risk
Fears of further damage to Australia’s living underwater wonder are rising due to looming weather conditions and the underlying trend of global warming.
- by Mike Foley
The battle to save the endangered fish that prefers to walk instead of swim
With jazz hands and a fluffy pom-pom, the red handfish is a distinctive species. But there are only about 100 in the wild, and Australian experts are determined to save it and two other handfish that are critically endangered.
- by Tracey Ferrier
Opinion
Environmental protection
Twenty years after Save Ningaloo, WA’s next cultural reckoning is here
As we face our moment of no return as a planet, much of our effort must also focus on what’s happening in our own backyard: what we are directly responsible for.
- by Paul Gamblin
‘A pejorative term’: What did we do before the word ‘woke’?
The word woke stirs up passions on all sides of the argument, and has been weaponised by the left and right.