Environment

For centuries, plant life was viewed as a passive backdrop to the animal kingdom. Groundbreaking research in the last fifty years has radically overturned this view, revealing a complex, dynamic world of communication and cooperation. […]

Greenpeace Australia Pacific Media Release Greenpeace Australia Pacific has warned the Albanese government against plans to subsidise gas for industrial users, saying it should instead be supporting industry to decarbonise. Media reports today that Labor […]

There was a time – and not very long ago – when Australian summers came with a soundtrack. Not the thrum of air-conditioners or the crackle of half-truths on talkback radio, but the whirr of […]

Bob Brown’s forensic dissection of Labor’s gutted environmental legislation in The Saturday Paper, 6 December 2025, strips away the usual parliamentary theatre to reveal a starker truth: Anthony Albanese and his crew have perfected the […]

In early November, the 30th meeting of the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, concluded after a fractious week of debate over the fate of fossil fuels, justice for vulnerable nations […]

UniSA Media Release Teeth. Ocean. Predator. These are the three most common words used to describe sharks, according to a new global survey published in Wildlife Research, eliciting 1000 different text responses. Despite fear driving […]

Oxfam Australia Media Release In response to the outcome of COP30, Oxfam Australia Policy and Advocacy Lead Josie Lee says: “Australia made some incremental progress at COP30, but the biggest barrier to meaningful climate action […]

Greenpeace Australia Pacific Media Release SYDNEY/BELÉM, BRAZIL, Wednesday 19 November 2025 – As Türkiye is confirmed as the COP31 host, Greenpeace Australia Pacific has urged the Australian government to show leadership and use its role […]

Greenpeace Australia Pacific Media Release BELÉM, BRAZIL, Tuesday 18 November 2025 – In response to the COP30 ministerial level press conference on a ‘Mutirão Call for a Fossil Fuel Roadmap’ Dr Simon Bradshaw, COP31 Lead […]

Every few months, like clockwork, the fossil-fuel lobby resurrects its favourite zombie myth: “Renewables can’t be recycled. They’ll just end up on the trash heap.” It wasn’t true in 2015. It wasn’t true in 2020. […]

ACOSS Media Release The Liberal Party’s decision to abandon the commitment to net zero emissions by 2050 puts people, communities and the environment at risk. This threat is most acute for people and communities experiencing […]

Monash University Media Release The Liberal Party has agreed to formally abandon its commitment to net zero emissions by 2050, following a vote in which a majority of members supported removing the target. A Monash […]

Doctors for the Environment Media Release Doctors call on the Liberal Party to resist caving in to pressure to abandon net zero, as doing so will put Australian lives at risk. The call comes ahead […]

Greenpeace Australia Pacific Media Release As the COP30 UN climate conference begins in Belém, Brazil today, Greenpeace Australia Pacific is urging the Australian government to drive forward the action needed to close the 1.5C ambition […]

Greenpeace Australia Pacific Media Release A Deloitte report leaked to the media, commissioned by the government of Western Australia, confirms WA’s gas exports are fuelling the climate crisis by delaying Asia’s clean energy transition, says Greenpeace. […]