A new electronic tracking system to monitor hazardous chemicals will be introduced in Victoria, as residents cry out for action following a slew of factory fires.
More than 100 firefighters are tackling a large fire at a waste storage facility at Campbellfield in Melbourne's north that is spewing smoke over nearby suburbs, prompting authorities to close nearby schools and urge residents to take shelter.
A $650 million solar thermal power plant planned for Port Augusta will not go ahead after the company behind it failed to secure commercial finance for the project.
Early-stage research into ways to limit the impact of climate change on the
Great Barrier Reef is being approved in a ''policy vacuum", potentially
limiting risk assessments and undermining public support, researchers say.
A Queensland grazier, whose bid to bulldoze native woodlands has the support of Federal Government MPs, is hit with one of the state's heaviest penalties for illegal land clearing.
In the middle of Western Australia, scientists and Indigenous rangers are searching for a trace of a bilby. They're like a search-and-rescue line, but for the environment.
Huon pines in Tasmania have locked up significant amounts of mercury
pollution from the state's mining industrial history. And that can be
released back to the atmosphere in bushfires.
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