The environmental costs of AI

The Senate Select Committee into Adopting Artificial Intelligence has been warned the technology could lead to a rise in carbon emissions and other environmental impacts if not managed carefully.

Scrolling into eco-stress

Young people are subject to a heavy dose of social media-driven eco-anxiety over the environment but there are ways we can help them beat it.

Saving Australia

A radical shift in our relationship with the Australian environment is needed and it is time that all stakeholders intervened to reverse the current trends creating an extinction crisis.

AI could help save species from extinction cascades

Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can predict what movies or songs you might like, but they can also predict which species a predator would most likely eat, offering insights into cascades of extinctions.

Bye-bye birdie

Vast numbers of birds turn against humans in Daphne du Maurier’s famous short story, but today it’s the absence of birds we should worry about.

Tougher environmental policies can create economic winners

There seems to be a working assumption that if Australia adopts tougher environmental policies, then economic growth will be undermined but new research finds the opposite is true.

Business and social change

Solving the environmental problems faced by society today will require a new order of collaboration between business, government, and civil society which transcends traditional politics.

Putting the environment first

The ongoing independent review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act offers Australia an opportunity to reset the dial and prioritise environmental custodianship over profit-led destruction.

Save the world to save ourselves

When we disrupt the natural environmental systems people depend on, when populations collide with exotic wild animals in a wet market, we find ourselves confronted with a global pandemic.

Facing our environmental crisis head on

Going beyond climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation and chemical pollution, overconsumption may be the single greatest cause of our environmental challenge.

The environmental picture looks bleak, but change is still possible

The world is on the brink of creating irreversible damage to the environment if better policy isn’t rolled out, but while there’s a lot of bad news in the UN Global Environment Outlook, a sustainable future is still possible.

2018 was an environmental disaster

Environmental news is rarely good. But even by those low standards, 2018 was especially worrying, with a succession of problems threatening our health and livelihoods as well as Mother Nature.