With the large amount of mining and agriculture that occurs in Australia come the environmental issues associated with these practises.
A team of global scientists have found without climate change the type of heat that hit Siberia would happen once in 80,000 years, 'effectively impossible without human influence'.The UN environment chief has said that "time is running out" to avert an environmental, economic and humanitarian catastrophe from a deteriorating oil tanker loaded with 1.1 million barrels of crude oil that is moored off the coast of Yemen.The world's population is likely to peak at 9.7 billion in 2064, and then decline to about 8.8 billion by the end of the century, as women get better access to education and contraception, a new study has found.Vasily Ryabinin stands on the banks of the River Daldykan and pushes a long stick into the blood-orange sludge. Top environmental news, deforestation, ocean acidification and coral bleaching, global warming and climate change, nature and wildlife news, and other environment news stories From the tallest giraffe to the smallest microorganism, everything plays an important role in the maintenance of our world.But with the increase in global warming, pollution and deforestation, biodiversity is in danger. Watch the provocative new series Little Birds now on Stan.Your web browser is no longer supported. !”“And if you choose to fail us, we will never forgive you.“Right here, right now is where we draw the line. The infamous 142 school bus was airlifted to an undisclosed location by the US Military after fellow adventurers died seeking it out.A Siberian town with the world's widest temperature range has recorded a new high amid a heatwave that is contributing to severe forest fires.Australians are being asked to join into a potential record-setting science experiment tomorrow night, and help important research in the process.A leading virologist has warned that more diseases could emerge as India's healthcare system fails and the food supply is devastated.The Morrison government's COVID-19 commission has been accused of shutting out peak environmental groups, despite claiming to have included them in consultation.Sydney residents can expect cheaper water bills until 2024, but a leading water expert has criticised the new pricing plan for not "bill shocking" the city's over usersConsultation is being sought from 250,000 anglers over the proposal.A British woman has hatched three ducklings she named Beep, Peep and Meep from eggs she bought at supermarket chain Waitrose. Want to take steps to help the environment? Activists and environmental lobby groups today such as the Australian Conservation Foundation, Greenpeace, The Wilderness Society and Friends of the Earth Australia, focus their attention on major issues such as climate change, land clearing, soil and water degradation, loss of biodiversity and damage to the coastal and marine environment. Biodiversity is the most complex and vital feature of our planet. To improve your experience Top environmental news, deforestation, ocean acidification and coral bleaching, global warming and climate change, nature and wildlife news, and other environment news storiesA Japanese ship spilled an estimated 1000 tonnes of oil into the Indian Ocean near the internationally-recognised Blue Bay Marine Park, polluting the island's once pristine coastline.With hundreds of thousands of masks now being procured every day, environmentalists are concerned about where they will end up.Thousands of students, environmental activists and residents of Mauritius were working around the clock trying to reduce the damage to the Indian Ocean island from an oil spill.Part of Canada's last fully intact ice shelf has collapsed into the sea as part of a rare "calving" event.Tonnes of fuel leaking from a grounded ship in the island nation of Mauritius are continuing to endanger wildlife.Alicia Ramsay was participating in a Ningaloo Discovery Whale Shark snorkelling tour when her group encountered a female humpback whale and her calf.As if the world today isn't strange enough, researchers have discovered a new population of cicadas that are being brutally infected by a parasitic fungus that controls their mind and forces them to infect other insects.A 300-year-old town in the Philippines, that was submerged decades ago to build a dam, has reappeared after a local drought caused the water to recede.For the first time in 300 years, an island off the coast of Cape Cod is open to the public.A gorilla advocacy group said an autopsy revealed that Rafiki appeared to have been killed by a spear.A huge fleet of Chinese fishing boats is approaching the Galapagos Islands, prompting a swift response from the Ecuadorian navy.The Namadgi National Park Director was witness to summer's devastating bushfires and has been part of the ongoing restoration in Canberra every day since.Little is known about them, but that means nothing to scientists gearing up to plumb the depths of a mysterious hourglass-shaped "blue hole" off the coast of the US.Scientists looking save caviar from extinction have accidently created a hybrid species.The water is believed to have come from the former Levikhinsky copper pyrite mine, which was closed in 2004.In 2020, the Siberian Arctic's sea ice mass is lower than any year since 1979 and has never dropped so low so early, based on natural freezing and melting cycles.As a US family were driving home on a still, warm evening 50-years ago, they had no idea their lives were about to be changed forever.Solar Orbiter has made its first close pass by the Sun and what it captured has amazed scientists.