Environment
Extreme weather events are worsening, with the recent flooding in southeast Queensland and New South Wales the latest example
Environment
Facelift for Peninsula’s only nature reserve
Environment Video
$250,000 boost for tourist facilities at Ocean Grove
Community rallies against floating gas hub plan
Environment
City at a crossroads: Viva plans a gas terminal in Corio Bay while council commits to zero net emissions by 2035.
Changing the law to protect our wildlife
Environment
Bats often get a bad rap but, as Jena Carr finds, they are a vital part of our ecosystem and need to be part of the Wildlife Act review.
Meet those trying to save the forests
Deforestation
Rapid urban development is pushing out natural landscapes and biodiversities across Singapore, Dscribe reporter Ng Xian Yu reveals.
Harvesting for the hungry
Sustainability
The development of a new regional food hub in Bendigo could connect local growers to people in need.
Alcohol-free fundraiser prompts waste-free lifestyle
Environment
Some went alcohol free for Dry July, but Ele went waste free … and she’s not going to stop now.
On the brink: How one local council is fighting the climate crisis
Environment Video
This shire is stepping up to the climate challenge, but is local action enough to ease the crisis?
Protecting Adelaide’s hinterland
Environment Video
Benjamin Filosi meets the volunteers helping to keep an important tract of Adelaides nature reserve alive and thriving.
Weed killer in our waterways
Environment
It’s been banned by the EU and studies have shown it can reduce penis size in our native marsupials but Australia still uses 2.7 million kilograms of this chemical herbicide.
Saving a national icon: who’s doing what to combat koala extinction
Environment
Bushfires, development, loss of trees, climate change and too many weeds – the number of factors threatening Australia’s koalas is frightening, Kristen Hart discovers.
How toxic soil can poison a town
Environment
Residents of Bacchus Marsh have been lobbying against their town becoming a dumping ground for contaminated soil for close to a year. And their fight is far from over.
This is how one small town escaped the bushfires raging around it
Audio Environment
Residents of the town of Cann River in East Gipplsand, Victoria were surround by fires during the devastating 2019–2020 fire season.
Eat local
Environment
How one farmers market reinvented itself in the wake of the pandemic
Gone to ground, or gone for good?
Environment
A journey into the Simpson Desert provides an insight into humanities impact — both good and bad — on the environment
The truth about bees and food
Environment
Some media reports suggest declining bee populations are putting our food crops at risk. But is that true?
When everything goes wrong in the world’s most haunted surf spot
Environment
It’s unlikely that sharks deliberately target surfers, but that’s cold comfort to those who have close encounters with these monsters of the deep