Heavy rains across Australia’s east coast are reinvigorating wetland bird species, but conservationists have warned the next drought is just around the corner. Key points: Record wetland bird breeding events…
LAS VEGAS – A sunken boat dating back to World War II is the latest object to emerge from a shrinking reservoir that straddles Nevada and Arizona. The Higgins landing…
Scientists studying the impact of plastic debris on a seabird colony that nests on Lord Howe Island say they found an increasing number of dead chicks during the latest fledging…
Environmentalists say they have evidence that large coal ash waste dams at coal-fired power stations could be contaminating birdlife with potentially toxic heavy metals. Key points: Two-thirds of feathers collected…
Western Australia’s government is promising an understanding approach as a ban on many single-use plastics comes into effect. WA is the first state or territory to ban thick plastic bags…
An evacuation alert has been issued for Barnston Island, located in Electoral Area A, by Metro Vancouver, due to rapidly rising floodwaters from the Fraser River. Barston Island residents, while…
Ajay Malhotra’s party store in Perth’s south sells more than 7,000 products, but many of them may end up in landfill as the first phase of Western Australia’s single-use plastics…
The provincial government’s own research has found 11 species whose survival is in danger living along the proposed route of Highway 413 – including two central to a federal environmental…
By CHRISTINA LARSON and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL, Associated Press Los Angeles and Mumbai, India, share many superlatives as pinnacles of cinema, fashion, and traffic congestion. But another similarity lurks in the…
When Drew Beattie wants to get some fresh pictures of Vancouver’s underwater nudis to throw up on his Instagram he first checks the weather – overcast skies and calm waters…