Australia is set to to overhaul its decades-old nature laws with a raft of major reforms including the country's first independent environment regulator. After a years-long deadlock, the Labor ...

Mining magnates seem to have it all. Far more significant than royalty, such figures are the unelected captains of industry who know that governments will do whatever they can to accommodate their ...

CANBERRA, Australia — A five-year government report found Australia’s environment continues to deteriorate due to climate change, resource extraction and other causes, prompting leaders on Tuesday to ...

Australian Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek Wednesday refused an application from mining magnate Clive Palmer to build an open cut coal mine ten kilometres from the world heritage-listed Great ...

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Laura Schuijers is a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's World Commission on Environmental Law and has previously received funding for her research from the Australian ...

Australian environmental history : introduction, review and principles / Stephen Dovers -- More a new planet than a new continent / Eric Rolls -- Creating place and landscape / Ken Johnson -- Evolving ...