• Smart farming can transform Australian agriculture

    Charlie Fletcher     |      June 23, 2022

    In the wake of dwindling water supplies and persistent drought conditions, smart technology is helping Australia to secure its water future, and it can do the same for agriculture.

  • Protecting Lord Howe island

    Open Forum     |      June 18, 2022

    The announcement of a NSW Government $32.9 million investment in biosecurity for Lord Howe will ensure the island stays rodent free and secure the recovery of threatened wildlife like the Lord Howe Island woodhen.

  • Food for thought

    Fredrik Wikström     |      June 15, 2022

    The food we consume is responsible for a third of climate change emissions, most species extinctions and consumes 70% of our fresh water, and a third of it is wasted.

  • Is the Murray River flowing back to the future?

    Max Thomas     |      June 13, 2022

    The South Australian Department of Environment and Water is reportedly excited that the Lower Lakes and the Coorong are “heading back towards their natural best”.

  • The long La Niña

    Open Forum     |      June 13, 2022

    La Niña has brought floods to Queensland and New South Wales but droughts to Africa and South America and seems set to continue for several months yet.

  • The trouble with lichen

    Alan Stevenson     |      June 11, 2022

    Nature is full of fascinating symbiotic relationships between different forms of life in the same organism, not least within our own bodies, but we are still just scratching the surface of the complexity of life within and around us.

  • Atlantic slowdown

    Matthew England     |      June 9, 2022

    The slowing and potential collapse of a major Atlantic current would profoundly alter the anatomy of the world’s oceans and weather patterns around the world.

  • There aren’t plenty more fish in the sea

    Brock Bergseth     |      June 8, 2022

    The destruction of the world’s fish stocks by rapacious industrial fishing fleets is threatening environmental sustainability and food security around the world.

  • Bringing big tobacco to account

    Kate Noble     |      May 31, 2022

    On this World No Tobacco Day, along with the millions of people killed by smoking every year, we remember another victim of the tobacco industry – the environment.

  • After the floods

    Cecilia Duong     |      May 25, 2022

    While populations around the globe have dealt with the effect of floods for millennia, climate change is now bringing bigger and more extreme storms and flood events to Australia.

  • Tackling Australia’s extinction crisis

    Euan Ritchie     |      May 13, 2022

    Despite its sunny, unspoiled international promotion, Australia has one of the worst conservation records in the world and the new government must take action to reverse the damage before it’s too late.

  • Of human blindness

    Warren Brown     |      May 12, 2022

    Innumerable species have been driven to extinction by the spread of mankind over the planet, but such is our rapacious and thoughtless exploitation of the world’s resources that humanity itself is putting itself at risk.