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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

Heath Joske has spent the past six years revitalising his family property on South Australia’s arid Eyre Peninsula with a few hard lessons and a lot of hard work.

A new area of coast between Port Fairy and Port Campbell has been opened up for gas industry expansion.

Big Mineral Mining is tearing up the coastline and restricting access to some of South Africa’s most pristine beaches and waves—and it’s getting way out of hand.

Emerald (she/her) is an outdoor writer, white- water and fly-fishing guide and community builder based in rural Idaho. Her work has appeared in The Flyfish Journal, DUN Magazine, OARS blog, Outdoor Research blog and more.

Out on the fringes of the Western Pacific, the seas encroach.

From shelf to soil and everything in-between – the unexpected lifecycle of Paul West’s tees.

Josh and Kyle Slabb are Bundjalung men who live, fish, surf and raise their families near the fabled sand bottom point break of Fingal Head on the east coast of Australia – where their ancestors have thrived for tens of thousands of years. 

The Fight for the Bight had a clear win over Equinor. It’s vital that we steer clear of complacency and devote extra effort to looking at why we won?

From the bushfires of Ulladulla to the snows of Kashmir, it’s been a wild year for Bill Barker.

If you don’t get what you came for, be sure to enjoy the ride.

Sampling the offerings at Crater Lake.

If 70 kilometres of forest disappeared from the fringe of Australia’s most populous city, would anyone notice?

Filmmaker Mick Waters packed up his young family for a road trip around Australia’s sparse southern coasts. He encountered all sorts of interesting critters… some of whom surfed.

The Balkan Peninsula is home to the last wild rivers in Europe. However, a deluge of more than 3,000 proposed hydropower developments threaten to destroy the culture and ecology of this forgotten region.

The people of Petran, Turkey, have been snowboarding for roughly 300 years. It’s not snowboarding as we know it, but you’ll recognise it.

Swinging by the Byron Bay paddle-out early on Saturday morning, it was clear these things had gained a life of their own.

When we move through the forest in winter, we’re often left wonderstruck by snow-shrouded trees bent and morphed from years of wear in silent solitude.