Science Magazine predicts that Australia will be one of the countries with the highest risk of extinctions worldwide, as temperatures increase above 1.5掳C.聽Josie Mackay-Sim reports.
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Worldwide, 49% of all wild bird species are in steep decline, according to a new report, writes Ian Angus.
Activists are calling for the end to聽native forest logging in NSW state forests. Rachel Evans听谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek鈥檚 new threatened species action plan does not go far enough, argues Greens聽Senator Janet Rice.
Nature Conservation Council CEO Jacqui Mumford said while the federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek鈥檚 promise to halt extinctions is an 鈥渆ncouraging step鈥, more needs to be done. Kerry Smith reports.
Climate change threatens the life and habitability of our planet and, right now, the eastern part of Australia is witnessing this first-hand.聽Alejandro Aleman reports
Australia recently gained an unenviable title: perhaps the first country to lose a mammal species to climate change. The , a native rodent found on one tiny sand island in the remote northern regions of the Great Barrier Reef, reportedly became extinct after rising seas destroyed its habitat.
Forest conservation groups have demanded that the New South Wales government immediately halt logging operations in state forest areas known to be koala habitat. They fear that proposals by the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) to allow clear felling of large areas of forests on the NSW north coast could be the catalyst that tips the area's koalas onto the path to extinction.