Pesticides
Keepers push for ban after bees stung by pesticides
Esther Han Urban beekeepers are demanding Bunnings Warehouse remove all products containing neonicotinoids, a class of pesticides, after a European Union ban.
Global environment outlook grim, UN says
The earth's environmental systems "are being pushed towards their biophysical limits," the United Nations Environment Program says.
Heavy metals link to horse deaths: owner
The owner of 22 horses that died suddenly on a south-east Queensland property has questioned a finding that scrub ticks or botulism probably caused the deaths.
Unsafe toxin levels found in Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is being contaminated by farm chemicals up to 50 times the levels deemed safe, World Wildlife Fund Australia says.
Turtle crisis looming on reef: WWF
Starving turtles and carcasses are washing up along the Queensland coast amid warning of a wildlife crisis on the Great Barrier Reef.
Antibiotic banned in US still used by Australian vets
Jessica Wright AUSTRALIAN authorities have confirmed a class of antibiotic recently banned for use in livestock in the United States is used to treat animals bred for human consumption in Australia.
A quarter of world's farmlands highly degraded, says UN
The United Nations has completed the first-ever global assessment of the state of the planet's land resources, finding in a report today that a quarter of all farmland is highly degraded and warning...
Queensland dugongs 'starving to death'
Miranda Forster More dugongs have died this year than in all of 2010 because of Queensland's summer of disasters.
Industrial pollution breaches widespread, study finds
Ben Cubby The recent chemical leaks from Orica factories are not isolated events but fit a wider pattern of continuing pollution at hundreds of sites, an analysis of the state's environmental protection...
Back to the roots to unearth pure inspiration
Esther Han Last April, Lily Morrissey crammed a small camera, a camcorder and a laptop into her backpack and embarked on a worldwide adventure to document solutions to environmental problems.
New laws to track fish catches
Commercial fishers will have to record their catches electronically under legislation to be introduced in federal parliament in the coming weeks.
Mystery of dolphin and penguin deaths
Scientists searching for the cause of the mass deaths of dolphins and pelicans off the coast of Peru think they know what killed the pelicans.
Plight of the honey bee sends shivers around globe
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Almost a third of global farm output depends on animal pollination, largely by honey bees.
More birds fall from the sky in US
LOS ANGELES: Scientists still do not know what is causing flocks of birds to drop from the sky in America's south as several hundred more fell dead on to a Louisiana highway.
Seed saver with a germ of an idea
Living by her conscience gives this activist the courage to oppose the unjust, writes Matt Wade.
Cloop! The otter has made a comeback
Stephen Bates LONDON: Otters in Britain, which 30 years ago were thought to be on the brink of extinction, have made a remarkable comeback and are now to be found almost everywhere, a report by the Environment...
Battle for Britain's iconic hedgerows
Paola Totaro The yearning for silence amid London's incessant bustle has led to increasingly frequent weekend forays into the English countryside, a world redolent with images from stories read in bed as little...
Strict new rules set the standard for organic goods
Kelly Burke FAKE organic products will be easier to expose and prosecute with the introduction of an Australian Standard imposing strict industry guidelines from today.
Water wars forecast as feeding India's hungry leaves the land thirsty
Farmers who can no longer irrigate fear nothing will be left to drink, writes Matt Wade.
Study puts pesticide's safety in spotlight once again
Kelly Burke CONSUMER AFFAIRS OVERSEAS research has discredited the safety assessment data used by the national pesticides authority to justify using one of the world's most toxic crop sprays, endosulfan.
