Environment

Tasmanians saw through the major parties鈥 spin and neither achieved a majority. Solomon Doyle argues it is clear people want systemic solutions to the worsening housing, healthcare and ecological destruction crises.

Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, an environmental scientist from Bethlehem University, was a keynote speaker at a forum on the Palestine ecocide. Jim McIlroy reports.

Indigenous Wamp铆s people on a boat and Galois Flores Pizango

Indigenous Wamp铆s leader聽Galois Flores Pizango spoke to 一品探花鈥檚 Ben Radford about the struggle to defend territory and advance a vision of sustainable Indigenous development.

Several hundred people attended climate organisation Rising Tide鈥檚 Action Camp at the Addison Road Community Centre. Jim McIlroy reports.

Algal blooms are produced by a combination of temperature, sunlight and nutrients allowing aquatic microorganisms to multiply at exceptional rates. But, as聽Renfrey Clarke reports,聽the current catastrophe is unprecedented.

Western Australian Labor鈥檚 proposed amendment to the Criminal Code, dubbed the 鈥減ost and boast bill鈥, could easily be used against grassroots groups seeking to force Labor to act on various reforms.聽Maz Misiewicz reports.

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Mariane Paviasen Jensen, a Greenland MP for the Inuit Ataqatigiit party and prominent environmentalist, has described a 60 Minutes Australia program as a 鈥減ropaganda broadcast鈥 for Australian mining company ETM, reports Peter Boyle.

Labor will set a new 2035 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target to take to the United Nations climate summit in November.聽Peter Boyle argues that as the world鈥檚 third-largest fossil fuel exporter, it needs to be much higher than what is being touted.聽

The International Court of Justice ruled that states may be accountable for the wrongful production and consumption of fossil fuels, opening up opportunities for climate justice activists. However, Alex Bainbridge argues it聽is no substitute for building a more powerful movement.

Organisers are pleased to announce that Ecosocialism 2025 鈥 with the theme 鈥淓cosocialism not Barbarism鈥 鈥 will for the first time feature in-person speakers from the United States and Latin America. Fred Fuentes reports.

book cover of Eyes of Fire

Forty years after聽agents from France鈥檚 secret service bombed the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior as it was moored in Auckland Harbour, Aotearoa New Zealand, award鈥憌inning journalist David Robie has released a fully updated anniversary edition of his book Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior, writes Ben Radford.

The NSW Court of Appeal overturned the 2022 Independent Planning Commission鈥檚 approval of MACH Energy Australia鈥檚 proposal to expand its Mount Pleasant coal mine in the Hunter Valley. Jim McIlroy reports.