ABC Environment

Obsessives, dumpy birds and disapproving academics: the saga of the night parrot.

When the place we grow up in is destroyed, it can be traumatic. Often these places are where we form our first connections to nature and our senses of self.

As communities move towards renewal after Black Saturday, we ask how they're coping and what lessons have been learned.

Fisheries officers will be trying to scoop up the Murray Cod in nets and then drive them more than 100 kilometres downstream.

The amount of rubbish being transported from New South Wales and dumped in Queensland landfills has skyrocketed in the past year.

Follow the journey of science reporter Jo Chandler as she chases the remarkable Queen Alexandra birdwing butterfly.

Koalas displaced by housing development are finding a new home on a Queensland cattle station; production ramps up at a remote oyster farm off Arnhem Land; performers run away from the circus to become avocado farmers; and an urban farm does a roaring trade in farmgate produce.

Despite our recycling efforts, almost every piece of plastic we've ever produced is still with us. Is it time to rethink our relationship with plastic?

The Ourimbah Landcare Group, on the NSW Central Coast, is reversing years of damage from farming and foreign vegetation, while creating strong bonds of friendship.

A decade into the most ambitious program to save the Murray-Darling river system from ecological disaster, hundreds of thousands of dead fish suggest that all is not going to plan.

Australia's national electricity grid has once again buckled under the pressure of a scorching hot summer. Consumers are furious not only about blackouts but rising power bills, too. For decades, politicians have promised solutions they failed to deliver. Reporter Mario Christodoulou investigates the toxic politics of energy.

Australia's national electricity grid has once again buckled under the pressure of a scorching hot summer. Consumers are furious not only about blackouts but rising power bills, too. For decades, politicians have promised solutions they failed to deliver. Reporter Mario Christodoulou investigates the toxic politics of energy.

Len Fisher outlines the history of Antarctic governance and says politicians need to be aware of the continent’s importance, and the views of those passionate for Antarctica’s protection.

With only one in ten households reported to have direct access to safe water, and 98% of Gaza's water unfit for human consumption, the water situation in Palestine has reached a state of emergency.

Koalas displaced by housing development are finding a new home on a Queensland cattle station; production ramps up at a remote oyster farm off Arnhem Land; performers run away from the circus to become avocado farmers; and an urban farm does a roaring trade in farmgate produce.

Cattle deaths on Pilbara Station; NSW Water minister denies responsibility for second major fish kill; Drinking water delivered to drought-affected far-west NSW; Medical journal calls for food system overhaul to tackle major global issues.

The world's top scientists say that if we all follow the planetary health diet, we can prevent 11 million people a year from deaths caused by unhealth eating and malnutrition and avoid catastrophic climate change.

Chief executive of the Murray Darling Basin Authority Phillip Glyde said he and his staff are "caught between competing legal opinions".

Locals say horse training on the beach threatens migratory birds and disrupts access. Racing groups say a balance of environmental concerns and the economic value of training horses can be reached.