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Global science leaders call for greater action on climate change
Open Forum | March 20, 2018The Australian Academy of Science has joined Commonwealth of Nations science leaders from around the globe to call on the Commonwealth Heads of Government to use the best available science to guide action on climate change.
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Nine ways to fix Australia’s draft ‘strategy for nature’
Bek Christensen | March 18, 2018Despite its ‘green’ image, Australia has a woeful environmental record and the Federal Government’s draft conservation strategy will do little to protect our fragile natural environment. Australia’s Ecological Society offers 9 ways to improve the proposed policy before it is too late.
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Yes, kangaroos are endangered – but not the species you think
Karl Vernes | March 17, 2018While our iconic large kangeroos are safe from extinction, many smaller and lesser known species are threatened by cats, foxes and mass scale habitat destruction.
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Australians want community consent on new mining developments
Emily Lehmann | March 15, 2018A new national survey on citizen attitudes toward mining shows that three-quarters of Australians think mining companies should gain consent from local communities before development.
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The left shouldn’t own the green agenda
James Alexander | March 14, 2018Although green issues are often seen as the province of the left, James Alexander argues that conservation and respect for the natural world should lay at the heart of true conservative values.
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Why don’t environmental laws prevent deforestation?
Samantha Hepburn | March 10, 2018Despite its ‘green’ image, Australia has some of the worst rates of deforestation in the world, exacerbating climate change and the loss of biodiversity. We need better laws, and stronger enforcement, to protect our precious natural vegetation.
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Nippers turning the tide: getting plastic off our beaches for good
Emma Johnson | February 26, 2018A new campaign from Surf Life Saving NSW and Clean Oceans Australia has been launched this February to engage Nippers in getting plastics off our beaches.