ABC Environment

There are villains out there, trying to make the most of the rarity of Australia's species by tracking down their locations for the purposes of poaching.

The fates of the black rat and the phasmid are as intertwined as the air roots of a banyan tree. The survival of one is linked to the extermination of the other, and the battle is on. {For RN Summer we're playing the best programs of the year, and this one first aired in June, 2017}

Last year the ABC launched its War on Waste series. It was a campaign to make us stop and think about how we live, look at how we could re-use and recycle items in our homes, and cut down on unnecessary waste. In today's episode we head to Sydney Markets, Australia's largest fruit and vegetable market, where they take recycling very seriously.

For years, a booming long-nosed fur seal population has been devastating fishing businesses in the Coorong. But could the tables be about to turn?

The average time between bleaching events at the same reef has shrunk from an average of once every 25 to 30 years in the 1980s to once every six years since 2010.

For decades, countries including Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan and the United States have relied on China to hoover up their waste and recycle it into new products and packaging. On January 1, the country introduced a new ban on foreign waste imports.

Battery powered vehicles are not as green as they are promoted due to the environmental economic, and geopolitical consequences from mining for minerals to their eventual disposal.

Alanna Mitchell's stage adaptation of her best-selling novel about the health of the world's oceans - Sea Sick.

Globally it's thought that shark populations and diversity are in decline, as scientists start the first systematic survey of sharks and rays in the Indo-Pacific.

After 35 years, some of the same sleepy lizards are still alive, still with the same lizard partner. Now, they will have a new scientist. {For RN Summer we're playing the best programs of the year, and this one first aired in April, 2017}

Earlier this year the ABC launched its War on Waste series. It was a campaign to make us stop and think about how we live, look at how we could re-use and recycle items in our homes, and cut down on unnecessary waste. In today's episode we see how seafood shells from restaurants are being recycled and used to form a reef in Victoria's Port Phillip Bay.

There's been a rise in the number of professional snake catchers on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

how can we plan our world so that we can get what we want but also leave a positive environmental and moral legacy?

ABC Science Editor Jonathan Webb chats with environment reporter Nick Kilvert about the environmental science stories that caught his eye in 2017.

Two remarkable kids with remarkable ambitions. This is wild, believe us.

How does a fish the size of a toothbrush head, with bright red fins and big blue eyes, end up living in a puddle of water in the middle of the Australian outback? This story is about one of the rarest fish species in the world, and it's simply epic. {For RN Summer we're playing the best programs of the year, and this one first aired in May, 2017}

The transformation of Singapore into a garden city.

Earlier this year the ABC launched its War on Waste series. It was a campaign to make us stop and think about how we live, look at how we could re-use and recycle items in our home, and cut down on unnecessary waste. Today we meet the Simpson family from the Brisbane suburb of Paddington who've developed a community hub around the produce they grow in their garden.

In 2018, there'll be even more science, culture and storytelling...with the spice added. Natasha Mitchell will bring you Science Friction in a new form as a weekly program/podcast from April 2018. Keep an ear out!

Wheat rust has re-emerged in recent years, causing huge crop losses in Africa and Europe — and raising global concern about food security.