Climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying, according to a major new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean […]
An international team of researchers are predicting a massive decline in the ranges of Africa’s great apes by 2050 because of the impacts of climate change, land-use changes, and human population growth. […]
The Indian multinational conglomerate Adani, which is set to build the biggest coal mine in Australia, was yesterday (Thursday) fined AUD20,000 after pleading guilty to providing false or misleading information to the […]
The world’s climate crisis was a central theme at this year’s Jaipur Literature Festival, with several sessions focusing on the national, regional, and global effects of the Earth’s warming. The internationally acclaimed […]
A new analysis of satellite data by the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) indicates that 1.64 million hectares burned in fires that blazed this year across seven Indonesian provinces. A total […]
In 2018, mining was the deadliest industrial sector for environmental defenders, according to a new annual report,” Enemies of the State?”, by the non-governmental organisation Global Witness. The NGO reports that 43 people […]
The Indian multinational conglomerate Adani has been given the final major environmental approval it needs to start constructing the massive Carmichael coal mine in Australia, but environmentalists say the battle to stop […]
Agribusiness is now linked to more killings of environmental defenders than any other industry, according to a new annual report by the non-governmental organisation Global Witness. The number of environmental defenders killed […]
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee¹ has again voted to keep the Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra (TRHS) in Indonesia on the List of World Heritage In Danger. At its 42nd session, taking place […]
An Indonesian palm oil company that was fined the equivalent of 30 million US$ for illegally burning a vast area of peat swamp forest in Aceh has been granted “legal protection” by […]
Delegates at the 9th World Urban Forum were urged to see urbanisation, migration, and diversity as realities to be managed, not problems to be solved. Empowering women and young people and […]
The rapid expansion of the coal seam gas industry in Queensland’s Darling Downs¹ has been accompanied by a dramatic rise in local hospital admissions for circulatory and respiratory conditions, according to report […]
As work starts on the railway line being built to transport coal from Adani’s planned Carmichael mine, protesters have been locking themselves onto construction machinery, and are vowing to do whatever it […]
Thousands of Australians protested today against plans by the Indian multinational conglomerate Adani to build the largest coal mine in Australia in the Galilee Basin in Queensland. The #Stop Adani movement organised […]
At least two hundred environmental activists were killed in 2016, according to a new report by the non-governmental organisation Global Witness. And nearly 40 percent of those murdered were from indigenous communities. […]
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has voted unanimously to keep the Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra (TRHS) on the List of World Heritage In Danger. At its 41st session, taking place this week […]
Habitat clearance, disease, dog attacks, car hits, and climate change are threatening the survival of Australia’s most iconic animal. The effects of climate change on koalas and the ravages of diseases […]
Delegates to the national koala conference in Port Macquarie in the eastern Australian state of New South Wales heard today (Saturday) about the plight of koalas who are displaced when blue gum plantations […]
Climate change was one of the main threats to the survival of the koala that were highlighted on the first day of a national koala conference that started in Port Macquarie in […]
The Queensland Land Court in Australia has recognised the environmental impact that an expansion of the Acland open-cut coal mine would have on the local community and environment and has recommended that […]
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