ABC Environment

Sturt National Park prepares for an animal release; making the switch from cows to chooks; a disability support group grows organic oyster mushrooms; and raw honey straight from the hives.

Entsch said both State and Federal studies show land clearing won't accelerate the runoff of pollution and sedimentation into the Great Barrier Reef.

The Federal Government has taken a big step towards approving the project.

The wailing calls of the red-tailed black cockatoos that live in Australia's South East are being used to help change the future for the failing species.

Sturt National Park prepares for an animal release; making the switch from cows to chooks; a disability support group embarks on a mushroom-led recovery; and raw honey straight from the hives.

The US President's announcement this week was hardly surprising - but was it the right move?

How do trees face an incoming threat if they can't move, see, or hear?

An ethical lens on life choices

Mobile towers built in wrong places, what's next for the Murray Darling basin plan, and the Country Women's Association gets behind hemp seeds

Nature Based Solutions is an environmental approach that seeks to counter the negative effects of climate change by working with nature.

The Federal Senate is due to vote on major changes to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan– if it passes, it will effectively end further water recovery for the environment in the river system. The Basin States claim we can stop water recovery now, because they have 36 engineering projects throughout the Basin which can achieve similar outcomes. But critics hotly dispute that. In part two of our investigation into the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, reporter Sarah Dingle reveals the politicking going on behind the scenes for Australia's most expensive environmental program.

Truly clean coal technology is not a myth, argues University of Newcastle chemical engineering researcher Dr Jessica Allen.

Listen to birds and possums communicating about land grabs, politics and sex. To celebrate International Dawn Chorus Day, this program about a forest chorus is from the Off Track archive.

New solar powered agriculture and industrial processes are being developed. And South Australia has become a world leader as it takes up renewable energy. But with coral reefs dying before our eyes and climate changing everywhere fast, there isn’t a moment to lose.

This week the battle between solar and food farming; and dry-aged mutton that tastes like chocolate!

Charlie Veron's team have compiled a major information base called 'Corals of the World', which is used by more than 20,000 researchers and scientists across the world.

The unsettling future of climate uncertainty

The social impact of an uncertain and unpredictable climate and building cities to cope with flooding.

They may not be able to walk, but trees do talk — at least to each other.

Researchers in Australia and Saudi Arabia say baby reef fish appear to have learnt how to switch off certain genes to allow them to cope with heat stress.