• Facing climate change on the Louisiana bayous – in pictures

    Facing climate change on the Louisiana bayous – in pictures
    Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana is home to a Native American community who fished, hunted, trapped, and farmed the land. But since 1955, more than 90% of the island’s original land mass has washed away, the loss caused by logging, oil exploration, hurricanes and ineffective flood control. A report by 13 US federal agencies found the island and its tribal residents to be among the nation’s most vulnerable, as the remaining land will be lost to rising sea levels Continue reading...
  • Donald Trump will make 'final decision' on Paris climate deal next week

    Donald Trump will make 'final decision' on Paris climate deal next week
    President resists pressure from other G7 countries to support treatyMerkel says discussions on climate deal ‘difficult and unsatisfactory’Donald Trump has resisted pressure from Europe, Canada and Japan to declare his support for the UN’s landmark climate change treaty signed in Paris in 2015, marking a defiant end to his first international trip as US president.The deadlock at the end of the G7 summit in Italy left other world leaders frustrated. The German chancellor Angela M
  • Could you cut out plastic from your weekly shop? One family tried

    Could you cut out plastic from your weekly shop? One family tried
    With fruit sold in tubs, chicken in trays – and remote Pacific islands awash in plastic debris – the McCreadies found the plastic challenge toughThe grotesque images of rubbish-strewn Henderson Island, a remote and uninhabited Pacific coral atoll where millions of tonnes of plastic waste have washed up, sent shockwaves around the world. The sheer volume of plastics escaping into the environment mean that by 2050 there could be more plastic in our seas than fish. But how easily could
  • Queensland says it won't play any role in funding for Adani project

    Queensland says it won't play any role in funding for Adani project
    Annastacia Palaszczuk says the Indian mining group will have to pay ‘every dollar’ of state royalties for the proposed mineThe Queensland government has announced it will not act as a “middle man” to funnel federal infrastructure funding to support the Adani Group’s proposed coalmine. The premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, has also confirmed the Indian mining group would have to pay “every dollar” of state royalties for the proposed mine, a significant depa
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  • Queensland drops plan to give Adani Carmichael coalmine royalty holiday

    Queensland drops plan to give Adani Carmichael coalmine royalty holiday
    Annastacia Palaszczuk confirms the Indian mining group will have to pay ‘every cent’ of royalties for the projectQueensland’s cabinet has dumped a controversial plan to offer the Adani Group a royalties holiday for its $16bn Carmichael coal mine.The premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, said late on Friday the Indian mining group would have to pay “every cent” of royalties for the proposed mine. Continue reading...
  • Federal Labor feels heat over Adani, and Coalition's starting to sweat too | Katharine Murphy

    Federal Labor feels heat over Adani, and Coalition's starting to sweat too | Katharine Murphy
    The biggest environmental campaign seen in Australia since the 80s is causing bumps in the road for both sides of politicsWhen it comes to the Adani Carmichael coalmine, the spotlight this week has been trained on Queensland as the state government battled an internal split on whether to give the project a royalties holiday. There have also been murmurings in Canberra, where Labor MPs are starting to express public opposition to a project many have been privately wringing their hands about.But t

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