Environment
Sustainability
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NSW floods
Sydney desalination plant churning out water even as dams remain full
As experts debate preparedness for future deluges it is revealed a year’s worth of water gushed from Sydney’s main dam each day during the height of the floods.
- by Peter Hannam
Latest
Green groups blast Barilaro’s ‘cherry-picking’ Hunter pollution claim
Environmental groups say Deputy Premier John Barilaro’s claims that the government’s own pollution data for the region was being manipulated by mining opponents were “laughable”.
- by Peter Hannam
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Biodiversity
Royal Sydney Golf Club: Removal of trees will restore original coastal heathlands
The Royal Sydney Golf Club revised development application increases the number of trees, and makes a case for the re-wilding of about a quarter of its greens to allow more diversity of flora and fauna to return to the area.
- by Julie Power
Turnbull calls for halt on new coal mines, inquiry on rehabilitation funds
Deputy Premier and Nationals leader John Barilaro slammed Malcolm Turnbull’s comments, saying the government remained “firmly committed to the coal industry in NSW” and there would be no pause on coal mining approvals anywhere in the state.
- by Peter Hannam
Opinion
Ethical living
Used soup bowls and worn shorts among the joys of op-shopping
Second-hand clothing is a vote against fast fashion and a protest against the “buy more” marketing mantra.
- by Cat Woods
‘Sinister stuff’: Worries remain over Moorebank’s toxic PFAS chemicals
Residents opposed to the development of one of Australia’s largest freight hubs say the site requires long-term monitoring and possible intervention to prevent toxic chemicals leaching into the nearby Georges River.
- by Peter Hannam
Barrier Reef took a ‘hammering’ but most replanted corals are surviving
About 25,000 new corals have been replanted on five reefs in the Great Barrier Reef network, with 85 per cent of them now growing.
- by Tony Moore
Virtual solar power plants give Queenslanders power to earn
A Brisbane renewable energy company and a property developer have teamed up to create a community in which the homes recycle energy from solar panels, earning residents extra income.
- by Tony Moore
Wheelie? That’s a bin? The question that lesser men are scared to ask
That shire bureaucrat will rue the day he decided to shrink our recycling bins.
- by Anson Cameron
‘Insane’: Proposed gold mine to take coal wastewater, dam headwaters
The straw for a new project planned for NSW’s Central West would suck in coal wastewater 90 kilometres away from the foothills of the Blue Mountains.
- by Peter Hannam
High hopes: the satellite network building the ‘internet of animals’
Creatures great and small are being tracked from space in a project that will help transform our understanding of how and why they migrate.
- by Sonia Shah