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The controversial Corio Bay gas import terminal in Geelong just got more controversial.

The future of electricity in Australia just changed in the space of a week.

For a country with one of the world’s highest rates of species extinction, Australia received some rare, good news last week.

NSW bans offshore oil and gas exploration, another nail driven into the coffin of PEP 11.

The controversial gas development was declared dead back in December. So why is it still “pending”?

South Australia broke yet another renewable energy record over the Christmas break.

The future of the Tasmanian economy – and it’s environment – are being brought into sharp focus in the forests of the state’s northeast.

Plans for the controversial Kurri Kurri gas power plant just took a twist.

Iconic Australian band Midnight Oil have released a tribute to the threatened takayna/Tarkine forest in Tasmania.

In a huge win, the controversial PEP11 gas field off the coast of Sydney and Newcastle has officially been scrapped.

There’s been a lot of talk around carbon capture and storage recently.

Gutwein's got mail.

What exactly is COP26, and why does it matter?

Santos describes itself as a “clean energy provider” despite emitting 36.34 million tonnes of CO2 a year.

A glimpse into what happens after the oil and gas party is over.

For the first time, solar generation has outstripped coal in supplying Australia’s national electricity grid.

The Victorian Government has given approval for gas to flow directly under Port Campbell National Park and the Great Ocean Road.

The battle for the coastline off Sydney and Newcastle continues.

Global oil and gas giant ConocoPhillips has been given the go-ahead to blast waters west of King Island.

The fight to prevent the coast off Victoria’s world-famous Twelve Apostles from becoming an offshore gas field has begun.

The tiny north-east Victorian town of Yackandandah is doing something revolutionary.

Local environmental groups are alarmed that a new Code for Timber Production is being rushed through.

Energy giant Santos has relinquished their oil and gas exploration permit in the Great Australian Bight.

This last refuge for wildlife from the Black Summer fires is still under threat.

A leaking gas pipeline has set the ocean – and the Internet – alight.

There’s trouble brewing in the sylvan hills of Broken Head.

In an historic decision overnight, salmon farming has been banned from the coastlines of Argentina.

The world’s largest renewable energy project, proposed for Australia’s northwest, has been knocked back as being too environmentally destructive.

Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status threatened over Australia’s lack of climate action.

In a clear sign that nowhere in Australia is off limits to the offshore oil and gas industry, the release yesterday of the 2021 petroleum exploration acreage includes an area just five kilometres from the world famous Twelve Apostles on Victoria’s Great Ocean Road.

In Australia there’s a truism that things are bigger in the West.

New marine parks the size of France, plus $100 million in support

A series of fortunate global events have already taken on a sense of historical significance

Momentum builds as thousands turnout to fight gas expansion and climate inaction

The Pieman Blockade shut down, but activists refuse to abandon forest to foreign mining interests

Morrison gov’t dropping $600 million on new gas power plant met with dismay

Victoria’s fight against a gas import terminal moves round the bend

Federal Court rules against Morrison gov’t’s water approval for Carmichael mine

Australia has been captivated by the gas industry for decades. Tim Winton calls time on them.

Big fish are now circling Batemans Marine Park.

Almost a decade ago, a great victory was won in the Kimberley. Today, this ancient, red dirt frontier remains under threat from the gas industry.

It’s time for surfers to read the forecast on climate change and do something about it.

How a chance meeting twenty-five years ago brought together two of surfing’s most influential figures.

Out of necessity, Jacqueline Sangueza loved fishing nets before she loved the ocean.

In a tiny Colorado ski town, the world’s oldest mountain-bike club is facing the complicated reality of recreation gone right.

The unassuming bogong moth has been part of the Australian summer for tens of thousands of years, the summer sky darkened as they migrated to the high country in their millions.

Surfers should care about climate, but do they? Really? 

For Tish, COP26 was an opportunity to hold our political leaders accountable and ensure they felt the global pressure to act on climate.

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Are the recent advancements in safety equipment and protocols making big-wave lineups more dangerous?

Iconic coastlines should not become gas fields. Surfers around Australia are ready to paddle out and defend them.

An interview with Gabo Benoit, trail advocate and mountain-bike mayor of Coyhaique, Chile.