Some news from The Canopy team at Greenpeace Australia Pacific:

A report on the global power system has found that the world may be on the brink of driving down fossil fuel generation despite rising demand for electricity overall, with renewable energy accounting for more than 30% of the world’s electricity last year on the back of a rapid rise in wind and...

The Climate Change Bill before WA parliament will determine how WA responds to the climate crisis at a critical time as the only state without a 2030 emissions reduction target. It comes as figures from the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water reveal that WA annual...

The federal government will rewrite the Future Drought Fund to better prepare farmers and regional economies for the worsening impacts of climate change with an investment of more than $500 million over the next eight years.

The Great Barrier Reef just experienced its worst summer on record, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced last month that the world is undergoing a global mass coral bleaching event — the fourth since the late 1990s — impacting at least 53 countries.

Two teenage climate protesters are threatening to sue the WA premier for defamation following Woodside’s annual general meeting last week. A new Japanese whaling ship is preparing for its maiden voyage. And a group of leading Defence figures has warned climate change will make parts of northern...

A proposal that would have required signatory countries to set a limit on and transparently report their global plastic production has failed to pass at a United Nations meeting in Canada due to a handful of nations, including the United States. This has stalled progress on the establishment of a...

After 25-years logging and bushfires, a greater glider has been spotted in Deongwar state forest. Deongwar state forest contains 4,700 hectares of intact remnant native bushland and is a key wildlife corridor, connecting large tracts of nearby forest. But in March the logging stopped.

Australian fossil fuel producers are probably emitting twice as much methane as they report under traditional measures, according to a think tank led by Rod Sims that pushes for more aggressive energy transition targets. Mr Sims said the federal government must insist on more accurate data from...

Authorities are rushing to save more than 150 whales from a mass stranding at a beach in Western Australia’s south-west. Four pods have spread across roughly 500 metres at Toby Inlet near Dunsborough and 29 of these have died, Parks and Wildlife Service Western Australia confirmed.“There are 20...