The Latest Breaking News from Environment

Greens have been in flood-stricken NSW town of Richmond, launching an election plan to increase environment spending

The minor party makes pledge as Labor faces calls to explain its nature policy and plans for a federal EPA

A minority party will push for one per cent of the federal budget to be spent on "restoring" nature if the election produces a hung parliament.

Government wants to spur economic growth and drive housebuilding but charities say nature should be priority

Review says current system of environmental regulations not working, but conservationists warn of ‘high risk’ to nature in planning reforms.

Australia is a place of great natural beauty, home to many species found nowhere else on Earth. But it’s also particularly vulnerable to introduced animals, diseases and weeds. Habitat destruction, pollution and climate change make matters worse. To conserve what’s special, we need far greater care.

Ten years after the Dieselgate scandal over cheating in exhaust emissions tests, European carmakers are in the frame again, this time for market skulduggery in the form of a clandestine agreement not to compete on grounds of environmental friendliness on the basis of their support for recycling.

Hoads Wood was described as an ‘environmental disaster’ by local people after it was buried under landfill waste.

Run Windows on a Mac is a breeze with Parallels Desktop.

In a knife edge vote, the European Parliament’s environment committee voted down an objection jointly tabled by the conservative European People’s Party (EPP) against continued funding of civil society campaign groups.

Full of clovers and dandelions, with a hard-wearing rye grass, the approach is environmentally friendly and usable