Greens threaten Labor’s fuel rules over gas project push

Greens threaten Labor’s fuel rules over gas project push

A controversial reform to offshore gas project assessments,which was expected to be debated in the Senate this week,has been paused.

  • byMike Foley

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Conservationists to clash with government at koala summit

Conservationists to clash with government at koala summit

Friday’s koala summit is set for a showdown between conservationists and the government over delays in creating the Great Koala National Park and the intensification of logging within the proposed boundaries.

  • byNick O'Malley andCaitlin Fitzsimmons
It’s time this west coast chart-topper got the fame it deserves

It’s time this west coast chart-topper got the fame it deserves

It was 1975. Queen was competing with Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin in the charts. And in WA,a new agency was compiling its own “the best of the best” list.

  • byPaul Gamblin
Miner backed by Rinehart broke environmental rules amid $840m in federal loans
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Miner backed by Rinehart broke environmental rules amid $840m in federal loans

Arafura Rare Earths,which counts mining billionaire Gina Rinehart’s company as a key investor,admitted to proceeding with part of a project before it gained government approval.

  • byDavid Crowe
Monster utes are symbolic of everything that’s wrong with our world
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Monster utes are symbolic of everything that’s wrong with our world

Bloated cars are effectively holding up a knuckleduster-decorated middle finger in the face of climate change.

  • byVivienne Pearson
If a tree falls in the forest,let the fallen log lie,say conservationists

If a tree falls in the forest,let the fallen log lie,say conservationists

Debate is raging about whether trees that have been blown over in windstorms should remain in Victorian forests or be carted away for timber or firewood.

  • byBenjamin Preiss
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South Korean scientists tout ‘beef rice’ as future source of protein

South Korean scientists tout ‘beef rice’ as future source of protein

Professor Jinkee Hong of Yonsei University in Seoul,who led the research,said it uses grain particles as the base for cultivating animal muscle and fat cells.

  • byHyun Young Yi andDaewoung Kim
Review ordered into green legal group over bid to halt Santos’ gas project

Review ordered into green legal group over bid to halt Santos’ gas project

Australia’s largest environmental legal centre faces an external review after a judge determined it had coached Indigenous witnesses and confected evidence.

  • byNick Toscano
WA environment watchdog boss resigns
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WA environment watchdog boss resigns

The chair of the WA Environmental Protection Authority Matthew Tonts has resigned for a senior job at Curtin University in another upheaval for the state’s environmental approval process.

  • byPeter Milne
Councils race against climate clock to save heritage trees

Councils race against climate clock to save heritage trees

Councils across the state are adopting new tree management policies to save old trees from destruction and increase tree coverage,as they respond locally to rapidly increasing urban heat.

  • byAnthony Segaert
‘Zero tolerance’:Plibersek to consider extending brumby cull

‘Zero tolerance’:Plibersek to consider extending brumby cull

The federal government has threatened to call for the removal of all feral horses from alpine regions rather than preserving 3000 brumbies on heritage grounds.

  • byNick O'Malley