WA ‘must quit prescribed burns’ with new tech now ready for roll-out

WA ‘must quit prescribed burns’ with new tech now ready for roll-out

New early detection and rapid bushfire suppression tech is being rolled out across the world and along Australia’s east coast. But it seems WA must wait a while.

  • bySarah Brookes

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Australia’s nature-positive laws at risk as WA drives ‘nature negative’
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Australia’s nature-positive laws at risk as WA drives ‘nature negative’

The West Australian government,and sections of our media,are presenting a false picture of what WA voters want to the rest of the country.

  • byJess Beckerling
What happens when a threatened species gets in the way of a new Perth housing estate?

What happens when a threatened species gets in the way of a new Perth housing estate?

These spectacular little spiders are found in only one spot:in the pathway of a housing estate that received its environmental approval decades ago.

  • bySarah Brookes
How a kid called John Howard is helping fix Sydney’s weed infestation

How a kid called John Howard is helping fix Sydney’s weed infestation

When it comes to weed removal,they’re literally the GOAT. Now scientists hope they may spread native vegetation too.

  • byJulie Power
‘It’s just a matter of when’:Australia war-gaming deadly bird flu outbreak

‘It’s just a matter of when’:Australia war-gaming deadly bird flu outbreak

Australia is untouched by a virus that has devastated wildlife around the planet,but the spring migration from Antarctica is beginning,and with it comes an extinction-level threat for native birds and mammals.

  • byMike Foley
New species declared endangered on doorstep of Woodside mega-project

New species declared endangered on doorstep of Woodside mega-project

Another species being declared endangered on the doorstep of Woodside’s $30 billion Browse gas field has delivered a fresh blow amid approvals processes.

  • byEmma Young
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‘I think they got the message’:Cook backs in watered-down environment laws after PM’s visit

‘I think they got the message’:Cook backs in watered-down environment laws after PM’s visit

WA Premier Roger Cook has welcomed news the federal government is willing to scale back stalled environment reforms which have drawn the ire of the state’s miners.

  • byJesinta Burton
Penny knows Neville needs to be locked up,like all the other killers

Penny knows Neville needs to be locked up,like all the other killers

The number of pet cats per household could be capped as Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek prepares a scheme to protect wildlife from domestic and feral felines.

  • byMike Foley andMillie Muroi
Plibersek accuses Greens of wooing unions at expense of environment

Plibersek accuses Greens of wooing unions at expense of environment

The Greens have slammed the government’s proposed reforms and are refusing to back a new Environment Protection Agency.

  • byMike Foley
Alcoa’s mountains of red mud fail to pass stability checks

Alcoa’s mountains of red mud fail to pass stability checks

Alcoa is storing enough caustic bauxite residue to fill Optus Stadium more than 350 times in areas south of Perth that have failed to be certified as stable.

  • byPeter Milne
WA’s environment regulator cuts efforts to protect nature around state to deal with Alcoa

WA’s environment regulator cuts efforts to protect nature around state to deal with Alcoa

The burden of enforcing special arrangements to allow Alcoa to keep mining bauxite has forced WA’s environment regulator to severely cut its efforts to protect nature throughout the rest of the state.

  • byPeter Milne