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Should Australia recognise the human right to a healthy environment?

Australia is one of very few countries that does not recognise the right to a healthy environment.  Jordan Davis, Author provided Australia is one of...

Around the world, environmental laws are under attack in all sorts of ways

In Montana and Idaho, endangered gray wolves are no longer safe outside national parks. As President Donald Trump mulls over whether to pull out...

After 25 years of trying, why aren’t we environmentally sustainable yet?

 After decades of sustainability initiatives, key environmental indicators keep getting worse In 1992, more than 170 countries came together at the Rio Earth Summit and...

Five-yearly environmental stocktake highlights the conflict between economy and nature

The human footprint on Australia’s environment is evident in areas such as land use change. Ryan Francis/State of the Environment 2016 Australia’s population growth...

New coal plants wouldn’t be clean, and would cost billions in taxpayer subsidies

Even the cleanest coal plants add millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere each year Following a campaign by the coal industry,...