Bianca Hall
Bianca Hall is The Age's environment and climate reporter, and has worked in a range of roles including as a senior writer, city editor, and in the federal politics bureau in Canberra.
Bailout backing was offered to Zoos Victoria a year before job cuts
The Allan government offered to provide bailout guarantees for Zoos Victoria, 12 months before the organisation announced plans to axe an estimated 70 roles.
- Bianca Hall
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The failing that threatens Melbourne’s ‘most liveable’ claim – and its residents’ wellbeing
A study of national parks has found proximity to wild areas “reduces stress, improves mental health and lowers healthcare costs”.
- Bianca Hall
How the looming El Nino will be amplified by climate conditions
Scientists are poised to declare the emergence of the weather pattern within days. Here’s why.
- Bianca Hall
- Exclusive
- Climate crisis
How lethal humidity threatens to displace millions in our region
Our region’s ground zero is Indonesia, where humidity is already high in wet and dry seasons.
- Bianca Hall
The reef is dying. So why can up to 190 tonnes be chopped out each year?
While the Great Barrier Reef suffers repeated bleaching, a little known and legal trade permits tonnes of live coral to be shipped overseas for use in aquariums.
- Bianca Hall
Australia’s most seen bird? After 5 million sightings, the answer’s in
More than 64,000 enthusiastic twitchers took place in BirdLife Australia’s Aussie Bird Count, counting and recording 5.27 million birds.
- Bianca Hall
CSIRO cuts climate research jobs despite budget funding boost
Ninety-two scientists will lose their jobs in the latest round of cuts, which one scientist warns will leave the agency’s capacity to predict climate change “running on a dial-up modem”.
- Bianca Hall and Mike Foley
- Exclusive
- Recycling
Hidden AirTags and ‘black mass’: The mystery of Australia’s missing batteries
The nation’s biggest battery recycling company is facing allegations of serious malpractice.
- Ben Cubby and Bianca Hall
Rain tank scheme aims to save threatened platypus population
An Australian-first project is under way to try to protect these elusive and endangered animals.
- Bianca Hall
Rudd calls to harness ‘physical terror’ of fuel shortages to push renewables
In the first public comments by Kevin Rudd since leaving the post of US ambassador, the former prime minister said the war in the Middle East presented an opportunity for the federal government.
- Bianca Hall and Nick O'Malley