'Horrid colonials destroy world heritage thing': we reveal the lies of Big Coral | First Dog on the Moon
The Australian government has appointed Ian the Climate Denialist Potato to explain to the world what is really happening to the Great Barrier Reef Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise […]
Greens pledge to protect marine reserves and ban supertrawlers
Party promise to compensate displaced fisheries and invest in shark research to assist in their conservation and protect humans from interactions with them Millions of hectares of pristine marine wilderness around Australia would be protected immediately, supertrawlers would be banned and millions of dollars would be invested in shark research under a new set of […]
Great Barrier Reef election explainer: how do the parties compare?
Experts have said this election is the last chance to save the reef. We ask the three biggest parties about their policies to do so As Australia goes to the polls on 2 July, the Great Barrier Reef will be reeling from its worst environmental crisis in recorded history and experts have said this election […]
The reef was my workplace and I knew so little about it. Then I started asking questions | John Rumney
Over time I’ve become painfully aware that decisions being made outside my community are defining not only my business, but the entire reef tourism industry In the late 1970s, I literally underwent a sea change. After spending time as a deckhand on a mate’s boat I decided commercial fishing was the life for me. All […]
The Guardian view on the Great Barrier Reef: the crisis they prefer to downplay
Many of the politicians fighting Australia’s election campaign talk about the economy and immigration but the world is listening for what they say about the impact of climate change If the rest of the world could vote in next month’s Australian election, there would almost certainly be one issue that would be raised to the […]
Westerners lack education on nuclear disaster risks, expert warns
Christopher Abbott says orderly evacuation seen during Japan’s Fukushima incident would not work as well in western societies Western societies would not respond well to a Fukushima-style nuclear disaster due to a lack of public information, a leading disaster expert has warned. Christopher Abbott said he firmly believed that the public ought to be better […]
Mike Croxford obituary
My lifelong friend and colleague Mike Croxford, who has died aged 71, was a pioneer of recycling in his native Wales. The Welsh government’s current recycling performance – at 60% it is fourth in Europe – owes much to Mike, who was a founder member of the Zero Waste movement worldwide and of the Zero […]
Woman paddleboarding England's canals finds thousands of plastic items
Lizzie Carr catalogued vast amount of plastic junk clogging 400 miles of waterways as she paddled through during her 22-day journey A woman who paddled 400 miles up the length of England’s waterways found them choked with thousands of plastic items, from bottles and bags to toys and dummies. Lizzie Carr completed the 22-day challenge […]
Malaysian palm oil giant IOI drops lawsuit against green group
Former Unilever and Nestlé supplier says it now aims to comply with the RSPO’s highest level of accreditation by the end of the year One of the world’s largest producers of palm oil has dropped a lawsuit against the sustainability body that revoked its accreditation. IOI Group was suspended from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm […]
How to polish silver in a few minutes – the green way
Sitting at a table with a roll of paper towels and a bottle of noxious silver cleaner is the worst – and it’s not even eco-friendly. Here’s a better method When I was a child, one of my jobs was to polish the silverware. Saying this makes my family sound far more posh than we […]