Environment
Second home gives Victoria’s endangered honeyeaters a flighting chance
This week, for the first time, about 30 helmeted honeyeaters - one of Victoria’s faunal emblems - were transferred to a remote patch of bushland in an attempt to establish a second wild population of this critically endangered bird.
- by Miki Perkins
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One-tenth of groundwater users in breach of licences, investigation finds
About one in 10 groundwater users are non-compliant, with one operator extracting the equivalent of 1200 Olympic swimming pools of water more than the licence allowed for, a pilot probe of NSW bores has found.
- by Peter Hannam
Global warming pushing emperor penguins to brink of extinction by 2100
Human climate change threatens emperor penguins with extinction but scientists say there is still time to save Antarctica’s best-known residents.
- by Miki Perkins
National weather forecast for Thursday August 5
National weather forecast for Thursday August 5
‘Ridiculous’: Government sits on forestry report as logging resumes
The Berejiklian government is refusing to release a report into logging after the Black Summer bushfires even as forestry work begins in a region of the NSW South Coast hit hard by the blazes.Â
- by Peter Hannam
‘Victory for nature’: Coal miner cuts plan in Blue Mountains
Centennial Coal has drastically scaled back plans for a mine extension in a sensitive area of the Blue Mountains, a move welcomed by environment groups.
- by Peter Hannam
Remote Cape Howe on the ocean front line for climate change
A remote marine wilderness in eastern Victoria is on the front line of climate change.Â
- by Miki Perkins