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Marie and Brian Long have suffered the effects of pollution in Brooklyn for decades.

‘It’s beautiful, but we’d like fresh air’: Life inside Melbourne’s most polluted suburb

The Age explores why the western suburbs are Australia’s fastest-growing region, and what’s holding them back from realising their full potential.

  • Sophie Aubrey

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Protesters outside the Federal Court in Melbourne during a Santos appeal hearing over the Barossa gas project.

The map, songline and pipeline. How legal experts misused Indigenous culture

“OMG, we win again!!!” wrote one campaigner about the fight with oil and gas giant Santos. But then the court changed its mind.

  • Nick Toscano
Pennings celebrates the win with other activists in Brisbane.

Activist happy as claims struck out of Adani legal saga

A multinational mining company expects proceedings against an activist to go to trial even after he claimed a courtroom “win” in Brisbane.

  • Fraser Barton
General manager of Patagonia Australia, Dane O’Shanassy.

‘Loved and hated in equal measure’: The problem with Patagonia

The outdoor gear brand sits somewhere between an environmental activist group and a sportswear retailer – and commercial success is often not at the top of its priority list.

  • Jessica Yun
A screenshot from hidden camera footage taken by activists at the Benalla abattoir.

The court case that could change the way your pork is produced

Animal activists have launched a Supreme Court challenge alleging 85 per cent of pigs are suffering unnecessary cruelty.

  • Bianca Hall
Black cockatoos photographed foraging in Caversham recently.

‘Refugees in their own country’: Starving cockies flood Perth Zoo vets amid food crisis

Perth’s zoo and black cockatoo rehab centres are struggling with emaciated cockatoos after an unprecedented climate event wiped out their remaining food source.

  • Emma Young
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For decades companies have tried to develop gas reserves from the Canning Basin in the Kimberley.

Kimberley gas fracking plan will ‘sacrifice global icon’: green groups

Green groups say US-run Black Mountain Energy’s plans to frack in the Kimberley will send gas and profit overseas while “laying waste” to WA’s environment.

  • Peter Milne
Dead tuart trees at the sign welcoming visitors to Rockingham, the electorate of WA Environment Minister Reece Whitby, where the little penguin population is also showing signs of collapse.

Undermining the watchdog is against WA’s nature. We must defend our thin green line

WA has special natural resources – resources that have helped make our economy strong. But what makes us strong also needs protecting, and now is the time.

  • Jess Beckerling
Woodside, the largest Australian oil and gas company, is doubling the size of its Pluto gas plant near Karratha to process gas from the $16.5 billion Scarborough field.

Whitby removes former Chevron employee from Karratha gas plant appeal

Environment Minister Reece Whitby decided to remove Murdoch University Professor Simon McKirdy to maintain public confidence in the appeal committee’s work.

  • Hamish Hastie
Cochamó Valley, central Chile.

Developer sells stunning land for $100m. The buyer will never build a thing

Not far from where the Andes Mountains meet the Pacific Ocean, a vast swath of pristine wilderness is changing hands under the most unusual circumstances.

  • David Gelles

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