Earlier this week we looked at the vexing issue of where to locate a radioactive waste dump....

There is increasing conflict between indigenous land councils and the traditional owners they claim to represent...

The land on Muckaty Station was a volunteer nomination by the Northern Land Council in 2007 to the Howard Government for a nuclear waste dump but there are now claims that not all of the traditional owners were properly consulted....

A group of traditional landowners is taking Federal Court action against a proposed nuclear waste dump at Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory....

With climate change set to dominate the environmental debate in this year's federal election, one expert says it should also be seen as a health issue....

Calling for celebratory, thoughtful, descriptive, creative works that engage with the human/avian relationship. Birds are everywhere. Even in the center of the cities, the white cockatoos call as they form silhouettes against blue sky; the rosellas squabble for fruit. And in the bush birds ...

We're calling for your memories, and memorials, of times by the river. Any Australian river. We'd love your celebrations of times spent on the river, descriptions of 'your' river, love stories set on the river bank... Your thoughtful observations of how the river you know has changed, in sound, in ...

You have no doubt noticed the building sustainability ratings system - the Green Star rating - that new commercial and public buildings across Australia now take part in. New buildings at the top of the market, at least, now pride themselves on getting public acknowledgement for their building's ...

When the UN General Assembly called a vote on the human right to water, 41 countries, inlcuding Australia, chose to abstain rather than support the declaration and many people have been wondering why....

One of the great myths being perpetuated in this election campaign is that the Greens prevented the introduction of effective emissions trading in this country....