Environment & Biodiversity

Melissa Haswell

For years, Darwin residents have been concerned about toxic chemicals emitted by the city’s two gas export facilities. In fact, some locals are so worried about these airborne chemicals – particularly benzene – they recently formed a community group and launched a fundraiser to buy a regulation-grade mobile device for continuous monitoring.

Taigen Ryan

When invasive species take over, they don’t just replace plants and animals; they alter ecosystems, change fire and weather patterns, wipe out native species, and transform landscapes that have been known and cared for, for tens of thousands of years. And culture goes with them.

Jack Gough

When the alert came through to my phone that highly pathogenic H5 bird flu had finally been detected on mainland Australia, my stomach sank. But as the details of the response emerged, I felt something I rarely feel when a looming national crisis arrives: reassurance.

Kerrie Allen

At thirty minutes past sunset on Monday 8 June, duck hunting season in Victoria officially came to a close. For Victoria’s native birds, this comes as a much-needed reprieve – I say native birds plural because it wasn’t just ducks that were part of the hunt.

David Lindenmayer & Chris Taylor

There is ongoing turmoil in the native forest logging industry, as revealed in the ABC’s Four Corners program that aired last night. The evidence presented was unambiguous: the native forest logging industry has been in financial, social, and environmental decline for decades.