The Sydney Morning Herald logo

Environmental activism

Advertisement
The prospect of a Texan-owned company fracking parts of WA’s Kimberley has drawn a record number of appeals to an Environmental Protection Authority decision.

Environmental protection in WA is failing when we need it most – will the premier step up?

Even as economically devastating extreme weather events become more prevalent, WA’s government prioritises industry demands for faster approvals over safeguarding the environment we all depend on.

  • Martin Pritchard

Latest

Santos, one of the largest Australian oil and gas companies, said the EDO’s injunctions against its Barossa project near Darwin cost it more than $1 million a day.

Taxpayers ‘deserve better’: Labor puts top climate lawyers on notice

The government is warning the Environmental Defenders Office it risks losing its funding after a series of high-profile court cases against a major gas producer.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
Some stone arrangements on Mithaka Country have links to constellations.

Historic win: Vast Indigenous cultural landscape gains protection

A large swathe of Queensland with more than 600 significant sites will be protected from mining after being placed on the National Heritage List.

  • Dominique Tassell
The gastric brooding frog, which gave birth to live froglets out of its mouth, went extinct shortly after it was discovered.

The premier, the poet and the fight to save a frog

It’s a story almost too preposterous to believe, starring a group of uni students, an infamous state premier, a legendary Australian poet and an extinct frog that gave birth by vomiting its young.

  • Andrew Stafford
Mark Graham

‘Death threat’, stalking, assault: Environmentalist’s alleged intimidation spree

A former councillor is accused of a campaign of intimidation during a long-running forestry dispute. Police claim he has “little regard” for court orders.

  • Clare Sibthorpe
Author and environmentalist Natalie Kyriacou.

An orangutan reached for Natalie’s hand. It was a defining moment for her

Through often-startling stories detailing the wonder of wildlife, a Melbourne environmentalist hopes to convince people that the natural world is worth saving.

  • Clare Stephens
Advertisement
Tash Peterson and her boyfriend Jack Higgs are trying to get to the UK for a vegan festival.

Vegan activist Tash Peterson fights to attend UK festival in face of bankruptcy woes

Controversial vegan activist Tash Peterson is not letting bankruptcy and the removal of her passport get in the way of flying overseas to speak at “the world’s biggest vegan camp out”.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
The larger of the two trees is estimated to be almost 30 metres tall.

They bought a knockdown-rebuild and got a fight over Thornbury’s tallest trees

The larger of two eucalypts locals are fighting to save is estimated to be more than 25 metres tall and believed to be one of the tallest trees in Thornbury.

  • Tom Cowie
Black cockatoos are in dire straits across WA.

Carnaby’s carnage laid bare in ongoing fallout from WA’s horror summer

Those on the frontlines of the battle to save WA’s best-loved bird have revealed new details – and new ideas.

  • Emma Young
More than 1 million petroglyphs are scattered around Murujuga National Park, which overlooks Woodside’s Karratha operations.

Art activists in legal bid to kill massive Woodside gas project

The gas giant’s controversial project faces another hurdle as environmental activists launch an 11th-hour bid to overturn a state government approval.

  • Aaron Bunch and Emma Young