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Coral restoration project Ningaloo Reef WA.

A state-first trial was trying to save WA’s prized reefs, until a cyclone threatened months of hard work

Millions of coral eggs and embryos during two separate spawning events – one in Exmouth and the other in Coral Bay – to save the reefs after a mass bleaching event. But Cyclone Narelle threatened to derail the project.

  • Holly Thompson

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While Australia is one of the world’s top shippers of LNG, most of that gas is produced in Queensland or WA, and is sold on long-term contracts to buyers in Asia

A Woodside report promised thousands of Browse jobs. New analysis tells another story

Climate Integrity’s analysis claimed the commissioned report inflated the economic benefits of the project, including “cherry-picking” job figures while ignoring destruction elsewhere. 

  • Holly Thompson
Darrell Pitt is spokesman for the Maribyrnong River Wildlife Protection group, which has formed in response to the deaths of three swans.

Of this family of seven swans in the inner west, just two are left. Locals say fishers are to blame

On a mild Saturday morning, five of Melbourne’s ecological groups convened a kind of emergency cabinet meeting. One item was at the top of their agenda: swans.

  • Cassandra Morgan
Angus Taylor, Matt Canavan, Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce.

‘Climate denial on steroids’: How the global anti-climate movement is fracturing right-wing politics at home

Populists are waging a war against climate action around the world, but in Australia the fiercest battle is among the right-wing parties over policy “purity”.

  • Nick O'Malley and Mike Foley
Alcoa will still be able to continue its operations while an updated exemption order that aligns with its revised mining management program comes into effect.

Alcoa to keep mining as WA government overhauls regulations

WA Greens environment spokesperson Jess Beckerling said the government should not be even considering issuing a new exemption order for the miner.

  • Michael Philipps
Hutcheon said single-use plastics used outside the home lead to the most litter.

‘Nothing seems to be happening’: Is Queensland falling behind on plastic bans?

Queensland paused its single-use plastics road map two years ago and is yet to decide a new direction.

  • Julius Dennis
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Chlaymdia is one of the many threats Australia’s dwindling koala population faces.

‘Crazy mistake’ undermines historic koala chlamydia vaccine, researcher says

The vaccine a decade in the making had been heralded as a cure for one of the biggest koala killers out there.

  • Julius Dennis
Graffiti outside Ormiston College.

Bleijie backs private school’s move to clear bushland as koala spotted

Wildlife advocates say Ormiston College has made a “mockery” of preservation, as a rehabilitated koala wandered into bushland being cleared for sports fields.

  • Cameron Atfield
Banner drop on the Willare Bridge for the Martuwarra Fitzroy campaign.

The ‘risky’ plan to take 31,000 Olympic swimming pools from beneath WA’s largest river

The state government says the draft plan to increase groundwater extraction is science-based and supportive of both industry and the environment. These experts are not convinced.

  • Holly Thompson
The shot-hole borer attacks living trees by farming fungus.

WA is spending another $4.8m to manage the shot-hole borer. Councils say it’s ‘deeply concerning’

The 2026-27 state budget promised a further $4.8 million to help manage the pest over the next four years. Local governments say that is nowhere near enough.

  • Holly Thompson