Topic | Environmental protection | The Sydney Morning Herald

We’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later.

Environmental protection

Advertisement
Dead owls are piling up in my freezer: Perth scientists take a stand
Exclusive
Biodiversity

Dead owls are piling up in my freezer: Perth scientists take a stand

“Enough is enough”, say Australia’s top wildlife experts, sick and tired of mass native wildlife deaths from a source they say the public is not aware of.

  • by Claire Ottaviano

Latest

‘I thought it was a horse’: Rogue pigs run amok across NSW

‘I thought it was a horse’: Rogue pigs run amok across NSW

Oscar Pearse was sitting on his tractor planting a crop of chickpeas when he looked over his shoulder and saw his nemeses approaching.

  • by Catherine Naylor
Australia’s houseboat community is growing, but life isn’t as idyllic as you’d think

Australia’s houseboat community is growing, but life isn’t as idyllic as you’d think

Houseboats are a popular accommodation option for holidaymakers, but long-term stays aren’t for the inexperienced or faint-hearted.

  • by Amber Schultz
The accounting trick at the heart of the world’s climate goals

The accounting trick at the heart of the world’s climate goals

On paper we can offset our way to net zero. In the real world, we cannot.

  • by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
You know about electric cars. Now Sydney Harbour is about to be carpeted with electric boats

You know about electric cars. Now Sydney Harbour is about to be carpeted with electric boats

Fast charging stations will be installed across Australia’s eastern coast as demand for electric boats booms.

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

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.

  • by Jess Beckerling
Advertisement
WA mega-marine park proposed to rival Ningaloo needs work: scientists
Exclusive
Marine life

WA mega-marine park proposed to rival Ningaloo needs work: scientists

This vast and ambitious plan has weaknesses – particularly around the popular tourism area of Esperance – that could hobble it from the start, say scientists.

  • by Holly Thompson
‘A lucrative business’: Why 730 tonnes of tyres have been seized in Australia in the past year

‘A lucrative business’: Why 730 tonnes of tyres have been seized in Australia in the past year

Illegal exports of Australia’s waste, including tyres, are in high demand by international manufacturers, to create fuel oil for further plastics manufacturing.

  • by Amber Schultz
Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, who took iconic Earthrise photo, dies in plane crash

Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, who took iconic Earthrise photo, dies in plane crash

William Anders’ plane plummeted into the water off San Juan Islands in Washington state.

Myths, spin and outright lies: the truth behind the logging industry

Myths, spin and outright lies: the truth behind the logging industry

Scientist David Lindenmayer confronts the entrenched myths around the Australian logging industry and our native tall forests.

  • by Kurt Johnson
Perth Zoo, Rottnest trees felled as borer spreads through 88 suburbs
Exclusive
WA Parliament

Perth Zoo, Rottnest trees felled as borer spreads through 88 suburbs

More than 3000 trees across Perth’s best-loved spaces have been destroyed as one of the state’s biggest-ever biosecurity operation ramps up a desperate defence.

  • by Hamish Hastie