In this extract from her Quarterly Essay, Judith Brett says mining has offered the Nationals a way to supplement their declining agricultural base
At the gala dinner in March this year to celebrate…
The number of fires in the vast north Asian region of Siberia increased fivefold this week, according to the Russian forest fire aerial protection service, as temperatures in the Arctic continued…
Petition launched to have Henties Bay tourist attraction removed and put in a museum.
Windhoek — In Namibia’s coastal fishing village of Henties Bay the main tourist attraction is a noose hanging…
With business leaders calling on the UK government for a 'green recovery' from Covid-19, it is time to rethink our tax system to make it green at its core. Rather than layering the tax code with…
By 2040, one out of every three passenger cars around the world is predicted to be electric-battery powered. But the power packs that drive those vehicles do not last forever, so what will become of…
Kenya has lost 70% of its wildlife in 30 years, but conservancy schemes could halt the decline – and benefit local communities.
Parsaloi Kupai’s home, situated on the edge of Ol Kinyei conservancy…
Pre-pandemic, Australians made great progress on phasing them out – it is possible for the good work to continue.
As Covid-19 restrictions start to ease, we’re unlikely to return to our previous…
Institutional investors managing about $3.7 trillion in assets want Brazil to abandon a proposal they say will add to deforestation and violate the rights of indigenous groups in the Amazon.
A survey of the members of the UK's Climate Assembly, who were chosen to resemble the national population in terms of both social demographics and views on environmental issues, found that almost…
A recovery that doesn’t protect the planet will be a disaster for health. I should know – I’m a doctor at the centre of Italy’s COVID-19 crisis, writes Roberto Romizi.
Roberto Romizi is a general…
Business in oil, gas and coal is becoming increasingly unprofitable as global fossil reserves could lose around two-thirds of their value in the next 50 years, plummeting from around $39 trillion to…
We need strong campaigns to confront environmental collapse. Instead, we get weakness and complicity.
Out of this horror comes hope. In the backwash of the pandemic’s first wave, we see the shingled…
he United Nations Global Compact this week held a two-day virtual conference, coming in the shadow of the Covid-19 crisis.
The UN Global Compact is the largest corporate sustainability initiative…
"I can't breathe." These were among the final words that George Floyd and Eric Garner gasped before their deaths at the hands of white police officers. That plea has become part of the current…
Four poachers were arrested this week in connection with the killing of a rare silverback gorilla in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, a lush preserve of mist-shrouded hillsides and thick…
More than 2 billion hectares of previously productive land is degraded. For Desertification and Drought Day on June 17, DW spoke with Ibrahim Thiaw, Executive Secretary of the United Nations…
EU member states will back an industry proposal to reduce airlines’ climate obligations in response to the coronavirus pandemic, at the UN aviation forum.
The climate plan for aviation is losing its…
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