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It is noteworthy that no island larger than 10 ha decreased in size.

A meeting between the board, First Nations representatives and environmental activists fails to resolve tensions over the deal, which has been described as ‘artwashing’

Open letter to festival board says Santos’ involvement threatens cultural integrity and amounts to ‘artswashing’

Guest “I couldn’t make this sort of schist up if I was trying” by David Middleton UK’s Natural History Museum to Review ‘Offensive’ Charles Darwin Exhibits, Bowing to BLM Pressure In response to the...

Australia has granted major project status to AU$22bn solar, storage and transmission project which intends to sell unreliable energy to Singapore by undersea cable from Darwin.

Report suggests surface water and groundwater should not be used in some instances and warns against fracking during wet season

Pastoralist expresses concerns about water as Senate select committee takes views on unconventional gas mining

In the dark waters of a limestone cave in northeastern Mexico, a blind fish makes its home. Washed into the cave at some time in the distant past, the fish had no choice but to survive by eating bat droppings and not much...

Frack Free NT Alliance says oil and gas company sponsorship undermines the integrity of the festival and investment from the renewables sector should be sought instead

Adam Giles says the government will look to publish report on environmental risks once it has been considered by cabinet

Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director Emeritus, Sierra Nevada Field Campus San Francisco State University To insure the public does not become complacent as the 16-year hiatus in rising global temperatures continues, the media...

Back when Darwin visited the Galapagos, he noticed that finches had evolved beaks in varying shapes and sizes to deal with eating different foods. Now birds probably long for the days when all they needed to worry about was...

The University of Michigan just announced that its 2013 World Solar Challenge vehicle will look more like a regular car than any of its past cars. Called “Generation,” the new vehicle will buck the three-wheeled design...

The first tidal energy facility in the Southern Hemisphere could be located down under. Australia’s Charles Darwin University signed a memorandum of understanding with Tenax Energy in the first step towards building...

Despite the Al-Gore-Kool-Aid-drinkers’ best efforts to suppress it, the Climategate scandal continues to blossom and flourish. (Or should that be putresce and pullulate?) I think my favourite comic detail this week...