Did you know that nature gets less than 0.1% of the federal budget? That’s nowhere near enough to protect our landscapes, wildlife, and way of life for future generations. Australia’s nature is in cri...

Pauline Hanson has pledged to scrap SBS. The government needs to hear from the rest of us now.

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Fossil fuel giants are pushing to expand drilling across Australia’s oceans - putting whale nurseries, reefs, and fragile ecosystems at risk. Tell the government to put protection over profit. Sign th

A KCL study has found that exposure during the first trimester of pregnancy delayed speech development

Australians are already deeply emersed in a global disinformation war about fossil fuels and climate change, former defence leaders say in an extensive new review.

Mondelēz is double-stuffing its Oreo cookies with bulldozed orangutan habitat. The candy giant knows its palm oil is wiping out Indonesia’s last rainforests, but it’s falling short of real action. No

An independent movement to build a progressive Australia and bring participation back into our democracy.

A gulf in public understanding prevents us from seeing how and why our food supply is at risk.

Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Plans by the Donald Trump administration to fund right-wing groups in Europe have been slammed by policymakers and campaigners as an effort to “usurp European democracy”. According to the Financial Ti...

For decades, fossil fuel advocates have been pushing the line that we “need” to burn methane as a ‘vital component of the energy transition’. It is an ancient talking point, predicated on the idea tha...

Australia is giving the Trump administration billions while it sets about attacking our allies and trashing the norms of western democracies. And all America's apologists can say is "keep your head down".

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Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka are reeling from flooding that has killed hundreds in each country and destroyed communities.

Authorities in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia race to help victims of devastating flooding

An ongoing heatwave along Australia's eastern seaboard will fuel further extreme weather this weekend, and its longevity is now breaking long standing records.

There is a great institutional need for strong inequality analysis. That’s why the world needs to establish an International Panel on Inequality.

Decades of well-established science shows that keeping coal-fired power stations going longer will kill hundreds of people every year — with taxpayers funding it.

The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

“We must fight the coordinated disinformation campaigns impeding global progress on climate change.” — António Guterres, UN Secretary-General By Shweta Narayan For the first time, ‘information integri...

Société Générale brags about its so-called coal ‘exclusion policy’, but behind the scenes, it’s bankrolling one of the world's most corrupt, climate-wrecking coal giants: Adani. Rings a bell? Yes, it’

Introduction by Croakey: The Electric Vehicle Council called this month for an end to the sale of new petrol and

Hyundai, the world’s third largest automaker, is desperately trying to promote itself as a green leader. But behind its glossy PR campaigns is a dirty, coal-fueled supply chain and a production line o

Brazil’s Cerrado is burning so Apple can call its phones “carbon-neutral.” Fast-growing eucalyptus plantations, bankrolled by Apple’s offset budget, are swallowing savanna, draining water tables, and

Public health researchers struggle to track the accelerating pace of global warming impacts.

Indigenous Forest Defenders put their bodies on the line to blockade encroaching palm oil plantations in the beautiful Ulu Belaga forest in Malaysian Borneo. Then, they were hauled into the police sta

Introduction by Croakey: The turnout of massive crowds in Sydney on 3 August for the March for Humanity, calling for

Brazil’s Congress just passed a bill that would be the death sentence for the Amazon – but President Lula has 14 days left to veto it! The bill, dubbed the “devastation bill”, will significantly weake

The Victorian government unveils new rules on how gas will be phased out of homes in Victoria, with a focus on efficient electric rentals and getting rid of gas hot water.

Woodside’s WA gas plans are facing fresh legal challenges, including an eleventh-hour bid to challenge approvals for the extension of North West Shelf gas processing facility.

We call for an end to the occupation of Palestine and a just and sustainable peace in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions, including the removal of illegal settlements, the withdrawal of I...

Only 800 of them remain, and now a mine expansion could wipe them out. Act now!

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