Scientists are hoping to find a way to save the coral on the Great Barrier Reef from climate change.

This is the heartbeat of efforts to save a global icon. Is it too late?

A new generation of scientists are refusing to give up on the Great Barrier Reef.

  • Angus Dalton andJanie Barrett

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The Greens’ environment spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young holds up a salmon during Question Time in the Senate.

‘Rotten,stinking’ dead fish brandished in Senate salmon fight

Opposition to the prime minister’s captain’s call to shield salmon farming from legal challenges prompted the Greens to stage a piscatorial stunt in the Senate.

  • Mike Foley
Wallan Environment Group president Norbert Ryan,and former presidents Cr Claudia James and Rob Eldridge on Green Hill,Wallan,with Herne Swamp behind them.

Melbourne could have a new park 76 times the size of the Botanic Gardens – if government acts now

The land for a huge proposed park on Melbourne’s northern fringe could soon be lost to developers,the government has been warned.

  • Adam Carey
Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project in WA.

Federal decision on Woodside’s North West Shelf delayed until after election

The new deadline of May 31 was uploaded to the Department of Climate Change,Energy,the Environment and Water website on federal budget day.

  • Hamish Hastie
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Albanese stares down his own MPs over fishy captain’s call

The prime minister has again overruled Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek and faced opposition from his own party over his plan to protect Tasmania’s farmed-salmon industry.

  • Mike Foley andPaul Sakkal
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Here’s a simple solution to the cane toad invasion. And it costs just 66¢ a hectare

A narrow patch of land stands between the invasive species and the Pilbara – 27 million hectares where native species thrive. A new program taking aim at the cane toads’ Achilles heel.

  • Julie Power
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A residents’ group is protesting against the planned removal of a Hills weeping fig tree in Quail Street,Clovelly.

Neighbours unite to block suburban chainsaw massacre

Under the canopy of stately old fig trees in Sydney’s well-heeled east rumbles a row playing out in many suburbs across the city.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
Environmental Minister Tanya Plibersek.

‘The only option’:Environment minister sued by Wilderness Society

The environmentalist group is taking legal action over allegations that the environment minister failed in her duty to protect threatened wildlife.

  • Mike Foley andBianca Hall
Greens MLA Brad Pettitt,WA Premier Roger Cook.

Greens launch scathing attack on government amid top-secret report’s release

The state government has been strong-armed into releasing the top-secret review that underpinned the overhaul of WA’s environmental protection laws,with revelations it hinged on the views of proponents,ran to 43 pages and was turned around within days.

  • Jesinta Burton
The Western Quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii),also known as the Chuditch is a vulnerable species,whose distribution is now confined to south-western Western Australia.

Australia-first study finds rat poison in rare Perth Hills chuditch

New evidence shows the first confirmed cases of rat poisoning in native Australian marsupial carnivores.

  • Claire Ottaviano