These urchin slayers are trying to save California’s underwater ‘rainforest’

Grist News

September 9, 2021

‘Zombie’ urchins have obliterated West Coast kelp forests. Can they be stopped?

Studying platypus populations in North West Sydney

Sustainability Matters

September 1, 2021

Sydney Water, in partnership with Cattai Hills Environment Network (CHEN) and Western Sydney University, is embarking on a study that will see water samples taken from the Cattai Creek catchment, in North West Sydney, and sent back to Sydney Water labs where they will be analysed for traces of platypus environmental DNA (eDNA) to establish platypus numbers in the area. Sydney Water’s lab teams have

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After decades of waiting, Indigenous peoples are finally getting a say in global conservation policy

Grist News

August 27, 2021

These are their demands.

How reptiles in the city went from native species to urban legend

Grist News

August 24, 2021

We have been inventing stories about reptiles in the city since long before the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

The US wants to make EV batteries without these foreign metals. Should it?

Grist News

June 30, 2021

Nickel and cobalt have precarious international supply chains, but eliminating them from batteries raises tough questions.

For Florida’s corals, no escape from climate change

Grist News

June 28, 2021

Some corals will be able to migrate poleward to escape rising temperatures. But scientists say Florida’s reefs have nowhere to go.

‘To solve the biodiversity and climate crises, we have to stay within planetary boundaries’

Ethical Corporation

June 4, 2021

The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) launched this week, creating a global framework for companies and investors to report and act on nature-related risks. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, will co-chair the TNFD with David Craig, founder of financial-data company Refinitiv and group leader of data and

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Mars focuses on community involvement in world’s largest coral restoration project

Ethical Corporation

May 30, 2021

The health of seagrass meadows and mangrove forests are affected in turn by the health of coral reefs, which cover just 0.2% of the world’s seafloor but are home to a quarter of marine life and provide livelihoods for 500 million people. But these vital ecosystems are another casualty of ocean heatwaves, that are becoming more frequent and longer lasting than even 20 years

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Parasite discovery tackles wastewater foam

Sustainability Matters

May 3, 2021

La Trobe University researchers have discovered a way to kill a bacterium that causes foaming in wastewater treatment facilities. The strategy could pave the way to solving a costly and hazardous problem encountered by wastewater treatment plants globally. Discussing the research findings, published in Nature Microbiology, Associate Professor Steve Petrovski explained that wastewater treatment

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Recycling ecology park opens $100m mixed waste plant

Sustainability Matters

May 3, 2021

Sustainable recycling and waste management solutions provider BINGO Industries has opened what is claimed to be the world’s largest and most advanced dry mixed waste recycling facility at its Eastern Creek Recycling Ecology Park in Western Sydney. The new $100 million state-of-the-art recycling facility is fitted with some of the world’s most advanced resource recovery and manufacturing

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