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Impact assessments prevent harm before it occurs. Circumventing the process before we understand the risks is misguided and a gamble with our collective future.
As more ships and tankers sail through the Arctic, the chances of oil spills increase. Canada should take action to prepare for a spill before it occurs.
Critics of environmental protection laws may have forgotten how much progress has been made.
Adopting a well-established strategy can help Canada avoid the dysfunctional outcomes we see repeatedly in today’s planning and assessment processes.
Many of these extraordinary places are increasingly at risk due to escalating climate change, invasive species, and and a lack of consistent funding to protect them.
The White House proposal represents a dramatic retreat from the national goals of clean air and clean water enacted in federal laws over the past 55 years.
Three experts consider what’s required to protect and conserve Australia’s natural wonders, from fighting invaders to stopping habitat loss and saving species.
After shelving plans to reform Australia’s nature laws, the prime minister wants to walk back existing protections with new legislation introduced this week.
Hopes for environmental law reform during the current term of federal government have been dashed, so what lies ahead for ‘nature positive’ next term?
Spotlight on Australia’s ‘nature positive’ environmental reforms: last chance for this parliament to get serious about halting the decline of nature.
A new report challenges the notion that repairing our continent is a task too big and expensive to tackle.
Conflict between coal giant Adani, the Queensland government and traditional owners over harm to groundwater ecosystems stems from a flawed interpretation of the ‘adaptive management’ approach.
It shouldn’t take sustained public outrage to stop environmentally destructive projects. Nature positive offers us a way forward.
One way to protect our ecosystems is to confer legal rights on them. This idea is at the heart of the ‘rights of nature’ movement – but Australia has few examples of this principle in action.
Nature, everyone agrees, is in trouble. But can Australia’s new market-based mechanism help?
A group of prominent environmental scientists devised this list of 5 things we must see in Australia’s new national environmental laws, if we are to avoid calamity and hasten recovery.
Australia has a once-in-a-decade opportunity to fix environmental law. A new Wentworth Group report says the cumulative impacts from multiple projects must be considered.
Most of us see only the dry treeless plain and spectacular sea cliffs. But beneath the surface there’s a precious world of caves and unique species that could be lost without better protection.
Australia’s environment does not have sufficient legal protection from climate change, as outlined in a new report from the Climate Council Australia.
Top contributors
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Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University
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Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
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University Fellow in Biodiversity, Charles Darwin University
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Senior Research Fellow, Environmental Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Law, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph
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Distinguished Professor of Ecology, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor of Hydrogeology, Flinders University
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Professor of Antarctic Studies, School of Humanities, University of Tasmania
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Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph
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PhD candidate, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Law, The University of Melbourne