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Labor commits to national packaging rules, as Planet Ark collapses
The environmental charity behind a number of high-profile recycling schemes went into voluntary administration this week.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Opinion
Climate policy
As the world cooks, why have our political leaders gone cold on global warming?
Climate change has been all but ignored in the Australian election campaign, and world leaders are giving up on the cause, even as the heat rises.
- by Nick O'Malley
A ‘cull of convenience’? How blue-gum plantations can kill koalas
Blue gum plantations that surround Budj Bim National Park create boom and bust koala populations. After a recent plantation timber harvest, disaster struck.
- by Bianca Hall
Australians once feared the health impacts of nuclear. Now nobody’s talking about it
Anti-nuclear advocacy once spurred huge protests and galvanised a political movement. With nuclear a core policy of the Coalition, few are talking about the medical dangers.
- by Angus Delaney
Why the whale watching season started early this year
The beginning of May also marked the official start of the humpback whale migration from Antarctica to warmer waters off NSW and Queensland. But the first sightings were six weeks ago.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Most Australians believe wind turbines are not really green. This is what we found
We debunk myths ranging from “there’s no point in acting until China does” to “we need nuclear for baseload power”.
- by Nick O'Malley, Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Bianca Hall
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