ABC Environment

Should Middle Powers such as Canada, Australia and South Korea join together to sustain the liberal international order and should we also be nurturing and defending liberal democracy against populism? Not everyone in China is happy with Xi but are they about to turn against him? Hold your nose and watch out for that brown sludge..it's time for a surf!

As Australia continues to grapple with the fallout from China's bans on taking contaminated recyclables, Victoria's problems have reached a new low.

Could one volcano cause global carnage? Making sense of a mystery. Your DNA and the archaeological record are full of surprising clues.

How climate change will effect your dinner plate, and the unintended consequences of the multi-billion dollar water market.

Stressed? Got the sniffles? Need a nap? Got a fussy baby? Just. Over. It? You won’t realise how much you needed to hear nature until you’ve heard this set of wild sounds sent in by Off Track listeners from around the globe.

Union membership is a fraction of what it was but people power is finding a voice through new platforms and movements. People power has given us revolutions, political parties and unions. In part four we look at how people power is now helping to put a range of issues on the political agenda through new platforms, movements and voices in Parliament. We also hear how Parliament itself could be changed.

You are environmentally aware but your boss, who is also your brother-in-law, is extremely wasteful. Do you follow your conscience and leave your job? Or suck it up and carry on? Lizzie Mack and ex-red Wiggle Murray Cook muse on this one.

Mr Joyce says the Newstart allowance is too difficult for people to live on, especially in rural and regional areas.

With many regions in the country still in drought, the situation has reached crisis point for dairy farmers in the Riverina region of southern NSW.

General Angus Campbell says Pacific Islands abandoned due to climate change could pave the way for foreign territorial expansion.

A new study from Monash University has found people's frugality and deep attachment to their electronic devices make them unwilling to let them go.

They’ve struck before, and they’ll hit again. Can we save our skins in time, or will we go the way of the dinosaurs?

Australia's neighbour is one of the world's worst plastic polluters, and it's individuals who are doing the most work to clean up.

Questions raised over Murray-Darling Basin spending; Global meat consumption forecast to rise, Vegan activists slam new trespass laws, A new definition of 'lamb' and a novel way of cutting down plastics in vegetable packaging.

Fiona Pepper follows the path of a tiny grain of plastic - a nurdle - as it travels on ocean currents from South Africa to land on a 'pristine' beach in West Australia. 

The 25 Zero Project.  Twenty-five mountains on the equator have glaciers at their peaks. Unless we slow down climate change, in twenty-five years there will be zero ice. 25 Zero.

The race is on to transition to a low-carbon economy. If we ditch fossil fuels will electricity and heating be even more expensive? Three energy specialists weigh up the pros and cons of solar, wind, hydro, biomass and hydrogen.

Making renewable energy reliable and affordable and glaciers disappear as climate change bites.

The role of big business in the efforts to revive the ailing Murray Darling river system remains in sharp focus following this week's Four Corners report into the way large corporations are using taxpayers' money to expand their lucrative water holdings.

The frozen confinement holds answers to the development of biodiversity, direct weather patterns across the world and is possibly our best indicator of climate change.