Environment
Sustainability
Opinion
Marine life
One man’s miracle of the fishes is another’s foiled catch
Being surrounded by salmon is the sort of thing that can leave a person speechless.
- by Anson Cameron
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Recycling
Planet Ark walks back printer cartridge recycling claim
The used printer cartridges are collected for recycling by a program managed in part by environmental charity Planet Ark, which relied on Melbourne’s fire-damaged Close the Loop facility.
- by Laura Chung
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Recycling
With no recycling, what should you do with your plastic bags and pasta packets?
After the collapse of Australia’s biggest plastic bag recycling program, hundreds of millions of soft plastic items are being stockpiled in warehouses instead. So what should you do with yours?
- by Laura Chung
A horse, 15 crocodiles and cultural burning: Why Indigenous rangers matter
A recent federal report noted that Indigenous knowledge and practices are key to environmental management. In tropical North Queensland, we see them at work.
- by Laura Chung and Brook Mitchell
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Biodiversity
On a remote Australian island, a small patch of reef is as good as scientists have ever seen it
The coral reef at Lizard Island, 270 kilometres north of Cairns, has been hit by four mass bleaching events in six years. Marine biologists are hopeful about its future, but much scepticism remains about its long-term survival.
- by Laura Chung and Brook Mitchell