Buddhist monks pit prayer against Cambodia’s desperate power needs and China’s profit motive.

Cambodia has turned to clearing its prehistoric forests for hydro-electricity dams. And China is only too eager to help.

A temporary treaty fix — designed to unlock a huge gas field for Woodside Petroleum — has expired. This could  unravel decades of Australia’s scheming both with its tiny new neighbour Timor-Leste and its largest, ...

Here’s the plan: Stop rats from killing rare species, with a poison-packing flying squadron carpet-bombing virgin rainforest.

Ice contains a “memory” within its compressed crystals that we can now recover and turn into climate records. From the savage Antarctic comes a team of ice-core drillers — and arriving in New Zealand ...

PETA’s anti-mulesing campaign has produced million dollars of research, an album of music titled ‘We Love Sheep’ and a decade of protests — is an alternative to the brutal procedure finally near?

How fast can a new government dismantle an entire suite of environmental regulations? Surprisingly fast. Amazingly fast. Case in point: pro-development, pro-mining, Can-do Campbell Newman and the Australian state of ...

Australia’s Northern Territory has seen crocodile numbers soar since the territory government put protections in place. Now though, the humans are being taken again. Is it time to let in the big-game hunters?

Are national parks saving Australia’s wildlife? Well, it is difficult to say for sure, but the country has the worst mammal extinction rate in the world.

Follow the trail of turkey tails for a feast of understanding about — no, really! — world trade. It’s all about extra stuffing.

Time is already up for many of Australia’s endangered animals. It’s just a matter of when — and which first. Today, we’re talking extinction lists.

Trying to manage threatened species on limited budgets? We reveal the extinction lists that aim to save more plants and animals — by deciding what we can’t save.

The Dutch did. When the water's at your neck, it pays to be pragmatic.

How safe is the Pacific rim, where 100 reactors in 10 years are planned, some in earthquake-prone, developing nations? Ask the fish.

There are good reasons — some ecological but mostly economic — to think the slowdown in demand for coal is not a slump, but the start of a post-coal world.

Alarm bells are sounding over further coal seam gas drilling in northern NSW’s vast Pilliga State Forest: dead animals and a toxic chain of ponds, along with the release this week of a damning ecological report.

A leaked report shows environment groups aren’t having the impact they’d like you to think they are.

With its tiny head and broad, meat-yielding flanks, the Australian barramundi sure ain’t pretty, but, to some at least, it represents earth’s best chance for sustainable aquaculture.

If we want to keep eating, it’s time to stop treating our soil like dirt.

Does living near a windfarm really pose a credible health risk?

Wind farm opponents claim victory as a council in Victoria cuts property values before a single turbine goes up. But do their other concerns hold up?

Rachel Carson’s brave, science-based book — the beginning of the environmental movement — turns 50. Have we learned anything from giant blunders in the name of progress?

Over three decades, a Brazilian movement of landless rural workers has won an area the size of Sweden to settle almost a million families.

Tony Burke's decision to ban the F/V Abel Tasman has bought us some time to consider the issue and what lies beneath.

Hang on, isn’t that just a small hole in the most enormous net you’ve ever seen?

Discover the winner of Australia’s richest literary prize. Through words and video, historian Bill Gammage explains how Aborigines tamed the land — and how colonial paintings prove it.

America's mighty Mississippi has been slowed by sand-jams and dredges, and dropped to its lowest depths in decades. What's going on?

Saving the planet is not as simple as 'less meat = less heat'. Indeed, the conscientious eater might be better off with a steak than a slab of tofu.

In the laws that protect NSW forests, there's a loophole so big you could fit an open-cut coal mine through it.

A string of tiger killings in India is prompting one state to fight poachers with guns, cash and spies. But is this compromising human rights?

Senator Bill Heffernan attacks a deal The Global Mail investigated, which could see the government pay $83 million to just 11 landholders in NSW.

Australia’s action in the world court against Japanese whaling masks emerging threats to cetaceans in our own waters.

Fears over processing rare earths are delaying an Australian project on the east coast of Malaysia.

India is trying to ovecome water shortages by catching more of its annual rain. But here, even the simplest solutions can be hard to pull off.

In Mumbai, India’s most frenzied city, slum dwellers facing eviction are defending themselves with a locally made weapon: film.

At the bottom of Argentina's economic heap, people are creating meaning, dignity and employment from piles of rubbish.

A recent tense standoff in the South China Sea is a taste of a riskier future for Australia, wedged between China and America.

Researchers shows that so many of us overweight or obese, it’s equivalent to having another 300 million mouths to feed.

Coal mining has boomed close to regional towns. Now it's pushing out the industries that keep those towns ticking.

The carbon tax will increase the price of gas in Australia from July but international market forces are now set to push up domestic gas prices.

One bitter dispute involving former friends and $83 million shows just how complicated it is to do the right thing with scarce water resources.

Pack your cameras and Gamma-Scouts for a tour through a nuclear wasteland, 26 years after Chernobyl. No need for the white lab suits … really.

Climate change was once a scientific issue prompting relatively universal concerns. How did it get labelled left-wing?

How did indigenous New Caledonians allow a risky chemical mining process to be tried and tested in their home, one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots?

An ivory ban stopped elephant poaching in Africa for decades, but as demand in China grows so does the killing.

Lord McAlpine, whose tourism vision created a new Broome before his financial downfall, returns to find division over Woodside’s plan to process gas in the wildernerness that prompted his own development.

Our rubbish converges into huge floating tips. There are seven "garbage patches" causing havoc in our oceans.

Opposition to open-pit mining in Argentina has reached fever pitch. At stake are political, environmental and human-rights issues.

So, are there foxes in Tasmania? After a decade, and tens of millions of dollars, spent trying to rid the island of them, there is still no agreement.

The chief of Australia's largest electricity network decries that he has no incentive to rein in our demand for power. Is Canberra ready to act?

Moranbah’s back in the news — our February story on the boom winners and losers in the Queensland mining town.

As the boom continues, a fractured network of regulators seems ill-equipped to properly check its impact.

Soaring power bills are hot today, with the release of Australia’s energy white paper. This February investigation explains why the real cost is in the gargantuan infrastructure we’re building to deal with our ...