Green light to extend life of Woodside's North West Shelf would blow Australia’s emissions budget

WA’s environmental regulator has recommended approval of gas giant Woodside’s North West Shelf Project’s operation all the way through to the 2070s, which will blow Australia’s emissions budget and fuel worsening climate change. 

On that note, scientists are urging that the world must cut emissions at roughly the same rate it did during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in order to keep climate change within limits we can reasonably adapt to.

And just beneath the water's surface off the Queensland coast, humpback whales can be heard singing clearly to each other, with new research revealing they can learn complex tunes from other regions.

EPA gives green light to extend life of Woodside's North West Shelf project to 2070

Head of Greenpeace's clean energy transitions, Jess Panegyres, said the approval was an example of how fossil fuel companies could exploit watered-down environmental policy.

Climate change targets achievable by keeping global emissions to COVID levels, scientists say

Emissions dropped more during the peak of COVID-19 than at any other time in recorded modern history and scientists say driving down emissions by a similar percentage each year, by transforming to a clean energy economy, could keep warming to around 1.5C. 

Humpback whales' migration along Australia's east coast best time to hear marine animals sing

Researchers at the University of Queensland believe whales are capable of learning complex songs from other regions.

Former Australian chief scientist to head review of carbon credit scheme after whistleblower revelations

The former Australian chief scientist and senior academic, Prof Ian Chubb, has been appointed to head a thorough review of Australia’s carbon credit scheme as experts escalate calls for a complete overhaul of the system.

EPA fines NSW Forestry more than $500,000 in one month for destroying South Coast habitat

New South Wales' Forestry Corporation (FCNSW) has been fined $230,000 after destroying a bat habitat in the Dampier State Forest near Bodalla on the state's south coast.