Hostility from local communities to offshore wind farms is threatening the government’s renewable energy ambitions.

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”.

  • Nick O'Malley,Caitlin Fitzsimmons andBianca Hall

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Salmon farming in Tasmania has become central to the federal election campaign.

Troubled waters:Tasmania goes to the polls for the ‘salmon election’

Tasmania has just five federal seats. But many locals think the smallest state could be crucial to deciding who forms government in May.

  • Bianca Hall
Kelly Ann Blake and her dingo,Jack.

‘Death of a family member’:Government sued over dingo killing

The decision to “unprotect” dingoes is being challenged,with claims the move erases the cultural rights of First Nations people.

  • Bianca Hall
The Victorian government has been working on plans to fit critically endangered dingoes in the state’s west with electronic collars.

Dingoes to be collared in contentious bid to protect sheep

The Victorian Farmers Federation has argued dingoes should be fitted with collars that can deliver an electric shock when they approach private property.

  • Bianca Hall
Aerial footage of feral deer in Victoria.

Life just got a lot more dangerous for Victoria’s feral deer

More than 1 million feral deer are thought to call Victoria home. But unlike native dingoes,they remain a protected species.

  • Bianca Hall
The road into Little River.

Residents opposed this solar farm. Then the government changed the rules

A massive solar farm near Geelong will be fast-tracked after opponents,including Catriona Rowntree,waged a campaign against it

  • Bianca Hall
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Satellite image of Hurricane Milton in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida.

Trump’s cuts could affect Australia’s capacity to predict storms

A wholesale gutting of the United States weather service is placing international weather and climate modelling at risk.

  • Bianca Hall
Wombat joey Hope survived more than three weeks without her mother,who was killed by unknown offenders.

Miracle survival:How wildlife rescuers found Hope after the cruelest act

Locals went to extraordinary lengths to save a wombat joey.

  • Bianca Hall
Developer Paul Hameister,a self-described “tree hugger”,wants the industry to go green.

Want to live in a truly green home? This ‘tree hugger’ has a plan

In Australia,it’s possible to live in a five-green-star-rated building that’s entirely made of concrete and glass.

  • Bianca Hall
A bag full of nurdles – plastic in its embryonic form – splits open and spills from one of the riverside sites surveyed in Melbourne.

Revenge of the nurdles:Oodles of tiny plastic ‘toxic bombs’ wash into bay

Every year,an estimated 2.5 billion nurdles – lentil-sized plastic resin pellets – enter Port Phillip Bay through stormwater drains.

  • Bianca Hall