The search for a scientific explanation for South Australia’s unprecedented algal bloom – which decimated marine life, perhaps irreparably – is being frustrated by a political desire for easy answers

Save the State Library of Victoria!

Long-term study suggests that the more heatwaves people are exposed to, the more it accelerates body ageing.

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

Education program sponsored by Shell’s Queensland Gas Company is ‘climate obstruction dressed up as education’, advocacy group says

ANALYSIS: Murray Watt’s environmental reforms will do little to protect the environment and a lot to benefit big business.

Bush Heritage Australia says it is still considering how to safely reopen the walk, which prior to closure was being visited by 100,000 people a year.

The Reform UK leader doubts people can recall their abuse from years ago. I’ve never forgotten his – it felt malicious

Do we even want or need all these datacentres? That is apparently none of your business

Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds

Acclaimed author ‘sick about’ 171-year-old institution’s proposed restructure as hundreds of writers sign open letter in protest

If the ‘suits’ can come for the State Library of Victoria, they can come for anyone, and no public institution is safe Pardon me that this is a little personal. I first visited the State Library of Victoria aged 12. I held books retrieved from its mountainous stacks with trembling hands. Its stupendous card catalogue blew my schoolboy mind. Search my name in the modern electronic counterpart today and it appears 125 times, mostly for works I researched there. My 84-year-old mother has been a volunteer library tour guide for more than a decade. Continue reading...

If the ‘suits’ can come for the State Library of Victoria, they can come for anyone, and no public institution is safe

The NSW government's flagship renewable energy project has come under fire after trees containing dozens of hatchlings were cut down.

Queensland supreme court orders Pennings, a campaigner against the Carmichael coalmine, not to seek to acquire Adani’s confidential information

Wondrous kelp beds harbor a complex ecosystem that’s teeming with life, cleaning the water and the atmosphere, and bringing new hope for the future

We just want things to work! Why is that too much to ask at the end of the world?

Landholders across Australia say rabbit numbers in some areas are at levels never seen before.