"This will be our most dramatic, most confrontational, most controversial and most effective campaign yet. We intend to save more whales next time than we did last time and that is a goal we fill confident in achieving"
The last of the chainsaws are due to fall silent as the final licence to log in the Otways expires, ending years of bitter confrontations between loggers and conservationists in the native forest 100 miles south-west of Melbourne.
Right now, those decisions are being made on our behalf, without consulting us. Do we want the resources exploited for the dollars and for the skysrapers they'll help build, or do we want to slow down this exploitation of the Kimberley? It's NOT inevitabl
Australia's new "climate friendly" government preaches global forest protection for climate benefits internationally, while continuing to industrially clear its own native primary forests in Tasmania and elsewhere, and this unseemly hypocrisy must end
One of the most spectacular natural events in Western Australia - the annual mass autumn spawning of corals - will occur off parts of the coast in the last week of March.
DRINKING bottled water is so anti-environment that it should be made as unfashionable as smoking. A British study has found that drinking a bottle of water has the same impact on the environment as driving a car a kilometre.
SCIENTISTS predict the Great Barrier Reef faces four possible scenarios by 2050 with everything from a "catastrophic" climatic event to global warfare.
CSIRO project leaders Iris Bohnet and Erin Bohensky this week warned the future of the Reef largely
CLEAN Up Australia has urged governments across the nation to follow the example of South Australia and introduce a national drinks container refund scheme. The organisation's annual rubbish report, released today, showed nearly 40 per cent of the 8000 to
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship Steve Irwin is enroute back to Melbourne from the Southern Ocean. And the ship is not returning alone. "We continue to be pursued by the Japanese vessel Fukuyoshi Maru No. 68," said Captain Paul Watson.
South Australian irrigators have reacted angrily to the Murray-Darling Basin Commission's decision to release environmental water flows onto the Chowilla floodplain in the Riverland.
More than four gigalitres of water will be released down the Murray River to protect significant 200-year-old river red gums and wetland areas hit by the drought. The Murray-Darling Basin Commission (MDBC) said 2.6gl would be released into the Chowilla
ON A summer's day in 1965, nine-year-old Tim Flannery was scrambling among the rocks along the shore of Port Phillip Bay when his hand chanced upon a tiny fossil. "It was a beautiful little sea urchin. I can still see it there in the palm of my hand,"
Scientists will send an unmanned submersible to track climate change by studying coral at unprecedented depths in Australian waters. In the US-Australian project, the submersible will dive to depths of 2.5km in seas south of Tasmania to locate and film
A BLUE alert has been issued for coastal communities north of Kalumburu in WA as newly named Tropical Cyclone Helen intensifies off the coast.
People in or near the communities of Kalumburu, Wyndham, Oombulgurri and Faraway Bay should start taking prec
The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting more rain across south-east Queensland today, especially over the three major dams.
Senior forecaster Gavin Holcombe says light showers will increase to heavier rainfall this afternoon and tonight.