Browsing: Environment

Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed.Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming,…

Victoria’s Healesville Sanctuary is helping to protect and restore the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot which is predicted to be extinct within five years.With only 50 known…

Britain is one of the least “nature connected” nations in the world, according to the first ever global study of how people relate to the natural…

Human bodies are like cities, teeming with microcitizens – vast communities of viruses, fungi and bacteria that live all over our skin and inside us. Unsung…

Offshore windfarm companies may be exempted from new nature rules in an attempt to keep the cost of renewable energy down, the Guardian has learned.The energy…

The environment minister would be able to approve projects at odds with nature laws if it was deemed in the “national interest” under the Albanese government’s…

The Coalition wants to break reforms of the federal environment protection regime in two, prioritising measures to fast-track projects while likely further delaying protections for nature.The…

Airport expansion plans backed by the government are putting the UK’s net zero target in “serious jeopardy”, MPs have warned.Without new safeguards, proposals to enlarge airports…

The Albanese government will need to cough up major concessions to either the Coalition or the Greens to have any hope of overhauling federal nature laws…

The migration of Christmas Island’s red crabs is in full swing, with roads closed in some places to protect millions of the crustaceans. Every year, the…