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Environmental threats

This Month

Decomposing sponges are part of the wildlife that has been killed by the algal bloom.

We went diving into South Australia’s marine collapse

Thousands of sea creatures have died and washed up on the coastline in recent months, an ecological crisis that is now becoming a political issue.

One reader asks whether Israel’s treatment of Gaza is any worse than what the allies had to do in World War II.

Gaza is a tragedy, but is it any worse than Dresden or Hiroshima?

Readers’ letters on housing development, the Middle East crisis, and the proposed Tibetan hydroelectricity dam.

June

“If we save the sea, we save our world”: David Attenborough in Ocean with David Attenborough.

Attenborough joins 10,000 people to urge action on High Seas Treaty

Australia is set to back a major new ocean protection treaty to limit industrial-scale fishing and protect international waters from destruction.

March

The scene after the North Sea shipping collision.

Blazing tanker spills jet fuel after cargo ship crashes into it off UK

The incident, in which the vessel was holding about 140,000 barrels, is one of the most significant maritime disasters near Britain for many years.

June 2024

Sandfire’s DeGrussa operations in Western Australia. Indigenous items were disturbed at this site.

Ignorance rather than greed behind Sandfire’s Indigenous blunder

An investigation conducted by Gilbert + Tobin concluded there was a “clear failure” by the copper producer’s former management to understand “ESG obligations”.

Original URL: https://www.afr.com/topic/environmental-threats-6g6h