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South Beach

The way of water: Can anything be done to save our disappearing beaches?

Fremantle’s popular and cherished South Beach is being impacted by erosion, like many beaches around the country. What are we prepared to pay to save this important part of the Australian way of life?

  • Mark Naglazas

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A picture of the Hazlewood coal pit on fire in 2014 gives a sense of the size of the pit that Engie have proposed to turn into a “pit lake”.

Plibersek urged to scrutinise Victorian coal mine ‘pit lake’ plan

Latrobe Valley residents have asked the new federal environment minister to scrutinise a proposal to flood the enormous Hazelwood coal mine to make a lake, citing concerns about future water availability.

  • Miki Perkins
The us has saved its bald eagles.

What the bald eagle and a tiny bat can tell us about Australia’s broken system for protecting nature

We are still killing off our unique fauna at a horrifying rate.

  • Nick O'Malley
Composite: Kathleen Adele

To save Australia’s precious environment we must do these five things

There is still time to act on the alarming decline of this country’s environment. It is the ambition of our actions that needs to be reimagined.

  • Laura Chung and Miki Perkins
Minister for the Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek: “The precious places, landscapes, animals and plants that we think of when we think of home may not be here for our kids and grandkids.”

Plibersek promises new laws next year to tackle rapid environmental decline

The government plans to create a new environmental protection agency as experts say the need is urgent. “There cannot be endless consultation.”

  • Miki Perkins and Mike Foley
Tanya Plibersek

After a decade in the wilderness, Labor still lost on the environment

The Albanese government has emerged from a near decade in opposition without a plan to tackle the slow train wreck that is Australia’s extinction crisis.

  • Mike Foley
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Endangered species

The five graphics that explain the State of the Environment report

The gang-gang cockatoo is among the more than 200 plants and animals that have been added to the threatened species list. Here are the other grim findings.

  • Laura Chung
The gang gang cockatoo has joined the ranks of Australian endangered species.

Australia more willing to catalogue destruction of natural heritage than to preserve it

The nation’s latest environmental report card is out, and the news is bad. Ecosystems are collapsing at a terrifying rate. But the damage can be reversed.

  • Nick O'Malley
The greater glider, once common across the eastern seaboard, is now endangered.

Environment scorecard finds Australia’s habitat ‘crumbling rapidly’

Australia has lost more mammals than any other continent and the latest report card says things will get worse faster without urgent intervention.

  • Mike Foley

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