Environment
Extreme heat inflames inequality
The people most vulnerable to extreme heat either live below the poverty line, have a long-term health issue, and/or are aged 65 and older.
Queensland Museum urged to axe Shell deal after study finds distorted climate education for students
The Queensland Museum is being urged to terminate its partnership with Shell’s QCG gas business following claims its branded teaching materials are misleading students on climate change.
Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Vanishing Act
Across the globe, an amazing orchestra of animal life is playing out in wondrous, quirky detail, revealing the resilience and spectacle of nature.
Lawfare in the Forests: How SLAPP suits and legal barriers damage democracy
Environmental groups do not have the capacity, financial resources or institutional incentives to pursue frivolous litigation. When community groups or conservation organisations bring a case, it is because significant environmental or procedural issues are at stake, and because all other channels for accountability and protecting the environment have failed.
The value humans place in intellect at the expense of other forms of intelligence
Humans are bad at valuing the things we are not good at. We bundle our strengths together and call them intelligence, then say that intelligence is the best thing to have. And we valorise sight above all the other senses. Hearing once meant much more to us, but we have pushed it to the periphery of our lives.
The devil is in the devolution: are the states mounting an EPBC takeover?
Speaking to the press after passage of amendments to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act last Thursday, Western Australian Premier, Roger Cook, indicated that he expected federal powers would be devolved to the state within a “matter of months”.
Labor’s COP30 fossil fuel phase-out doublespeak
You could be forgiven for thinking Australia’s support last week for the COP30 declaration on a “transition away from fossil fuels”, means the Australia Government is, or at least intends to transition away from fossil fuels.
'The good has become the enemy of better’: why the Senate refused to accept Labor’s first EPBC draft
'Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good’ has become the catch-cry of proud 'centrists' in Australia. But it’s time we admitted that the good has become the enemy of better.
Explainer: What’s wrong with the environment law reboot?
The Federal Government has passed reforms to federal environment laws with amendments from the Greens. The amendments have improvements in relation to native forest logging, illegal landclearing and fossil fuel projects, but there are still plenty of problems.
Albanese Government strikes 11th hour deal with the Greens to pass environment laws
The laws, which were being negotiated with the Coalition until late last night, are controversial amongst climate advocates.
