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UN may downgrade Great Barrier Reef’s heritage status due to Australia’s inaction on threats

Oliver Milman 17 Jun 2013

Giant hot pink slug in Australia becomes conservation symbol (photo)

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Jun 2013

Scientist: Australia taking ‘calculated actions’ to push Leadbeater’s possum to extinction

Oliver Milman 6 Jun 2013

Turning up the temperature might save frogs’ lives

Jordanna Dulaney 28 May 2013

Could the Tasmanian tiger be hiding out in New Guinea?

Jeremy Hance 20 May 2013

New endangered list for ecosystems modeled after ‘Red list’ for species

Mongabay.com 9 May 2013

Common moth can hear higher frequencies than any other animal on Earth

Jeremy Hance 9 May 2013

Last 30 years were the warmest in the last 1,400 years

Jeremy Hance 21 Apr 2013

Norwegian Pinot Noir?: global warming to drastically shift wine regions

Jeremy Hance 8 Apr 2013

Scientists clone extinct frog that births young from its mouth

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Mar 2013

Wildfire forces anti-logging activist from tree after 449-day vigil

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2013

Forests under fire: Australia’s imperiled south west

Tina Butler 5 Mar 2013

First strike: nearly 200 illegal loggers arrested in massive sting across 12 countries

Jeremy Hance 20 Feb 2013

Indigenous knowledge reveals widespread mammal decline in northern Australia

Dr Liz Kimbrough 14 Feb 2013

New wind power cheaper than coal or gas in Australia

Mongabay.com 8 Feb 2013

Man drove Tasmanian Tiger to extinction in Australia

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2013

Cute koalas have become ‘urban refugees’

Jeremy Hance 28 Jan 2013

Getting intimate with a giant, yet poorly known flightless bird: the cassowary

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jan 2013

Australia reels from record heatwave, fires

Jeremy Hance 9 Jan 2013

Scientists: bizarre mammal could still roam Australia

Jeremy Hance 3 Jan 2013

The year in rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2012

Photos: 3 colorful lizard species discovered in Australia

Mongabay.com 19 Dec 2012

‘Exporting deforestation’: China is the kingpin of illegal logging

Jeremy Hance 29 Nov 2012

Australia outlaws illegally-logged wood from abroad

Jeremy Hance 21 Nov 2012

Great Barrier Reef loses half its coral in less than 30 years

Jeremy Hance 1 Oct 2012

Coral calcification rates fall 44% on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Mongabay.com 4 Sep 2012

Australia sets aside 40 percent of its waters for protection

Jeremy Hance 14 Jun 2012

Island bat goes extinct after Australian officials hesitate

Jeremy Hance 23 May 2012

KFC Australia stops using palm oil

Mongabay.com 23 May 2012

We should help solve illegal logging, not be part of the problem

William F. Laurance 14 May 2012

Pictures of the day: activists highlight personal impacts of climate change worldwide

Jeremy Hance 7 May 2012

Massive coal mine in Australia beats back climate change legal challenge

Jeremy Hance 3 Apr 2012

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