Planet Ark promotes pocket ashtrays
Environmental group Planet Ark is urging smokers to carry a “pocket ashtray” for cigarette butts instead of dropping them on the ground.

Environmental group Planet Ark is urging smokers to carry a “pocket ashtray” for cigarette butts instead of dropping them on the ground.

Oil giant Shell has said ethanol will play a key role in Australia’s future fuel usage.

Water restrictions will become a permanent feature of life in Melbourne and other Australian cities.

Forestry Tasmania is to start logging in a Tasmanian forest, despite local campaigners’ hopes that it would be part of the Federal Government’s promised new forest reserves.

Jared Diamond, author of Collapse, a study of why civilisations often collapse after failing to deal with key environmental problems, writes about Australia’s attitudes to our environment.

Federal Hotels and Resorts has won permission to build four dams inside Freycinet national park in Tasmania to supply a new Coles Bay resort.

Local councils in north Sydney are considering higher parking fees for 4WDs in a bid to discourage large cars that contribute to air pollution and global warming.

Annual global trade in emissions could reach $A56 billion by 2010, according to a new study.

The South Australian Government will shift Adeliade’s buses and trains over to a 20% biodiesel fuel mix in coming years.

With a ban imposed by indigenous owners set to expire, a subsidiary of AREVA plans to restart its uranium mining in Kakadu National Park.