Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior to dock in Australia this weekend
Friday, 21 April 2023
Greenpeace’s most iconic ship, the Rainbow Warrior, arrives in Western Australia this weekend to join with local communities to protect our oceans and climate from fossil fuel company Woodside and its monstrous Burrup Hub gas project. We’re sailing the length of WA with a simple message: choose whales not Woodside.
An official review has found that Australia recycles just 18% of plastic packaging, according to the latest annual figures, and will only get two-thirds of the way to its national target of 70% by 2025.
The first El Niño phase of the Pacific Ocean in eight years is becoming more likely in 2023, increasing the odds of drier and warmer weather across eastern Australia, with predictions it may be one of the strongest in decades.
Top stories:
Greenpeace Flagship the Rainbow Warrior will dock in Albany to begin its Australia Pacific tour
On April 22, the Rainbow Warrior will dock in Albany to celebrate the 45-year anniversary of the end of commercial whaling in Australia and launch Greenpeace’s Australia-Pacific Campaign.
Packaging industry won't meet its own targets on waste
In April 2018, the packaging industry promised to dramatically reduce waste going to landfill by ramping up recycling, but won't meet any of the waste-busting targets it set for itself, sparking fresh calls for the government to force it to clean up its act.
El Niño in 2023 becoming more likely, which would result in dry, warm weather across eastern Australia
The first El Niño phase of the Pacific Ocean in eight years is becoming more likely in 2023, increasing the odds of drier and warmer weather across eastern Australia.
Accelerating melt of ice sheets now 'unmistakable'
An international group of scientists who work with satellite data say the acceleration in the melting of Earth's ice sheets is now unmistakable.
Tokyo rolls out vending machines for whale products amid online sales of unsafe dolphin meat
An Australian charity has launched a criminal complaint against a company selling dolphin meat on Yahoo! Japan after it found meat purchased from the site contained mercury levels nearly 100 times over the safety limit mandated by the Japanese government.
Following bush fires, land clearing and poaching, the glossy black-cockatoo is fighting for survival
Farmers in the New South Wales central west are trying to save a native bird, valued as much as half a million dollars on the black market, from extinction.
Sleeping elephant seals fall through ocean's depths, and some even nap on the sea floor
New research has found that some elephant seals fell to depths of over 370m while asleep, and in some instances they hit the seafloor and kept sleeping.
'Ancient' bulloak jewel butterfly gets 'temporary reprieve', but climate change threat still looms
A rare Australian butterfly only seen in pockets of Queensland's Southern Downs has had a boost in numbers after recent rain.
New South Wales Environmental Protection Authority to probe Menindee fish kills as pollution incident
One month after the worst fish kill on record at Menindee, the EPA will investigate whether pollution offences had any role in the Menindee fish kills.