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Dangerous factory fires remain a burning issue

Dangerous factory fires remain a burning issue

A spate of dangerous industrial fires has residents raising the alarm that environmental authorities and government aren't doing enough to prevent them.

Australia risks missing $250b green iron opportunity

Australia risks missing $250b green iron opportunity

Australia risks missing $250b green iron opportunity

Australia risks missing $250b green iron opportunity

Urgent reforms are being called for to allow Australia to become a world leader in the production and export of iron produced with renewable energy.

Rio Tinto 'open' to nuclear energy, profit flatlines

Rio Tinto 'open' to nuclear energy, profit flatlines

Rio Tinto 'open' to nuclear energy, profit flatlines

Rio Tinto 'open' to nuclear energy, profit flatlines

Rio Tinto says it wants to find better ways to provide the materials the world needs but warns decarbonisation has "a long way to go".

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Fears of major spill after Philippine oil tanker sinks

Fears of major spill after Philippine oil tanker sinks

Authorities have rescued over a dozen crew and are racing to avert an environmental disaster after an oil tanker sank in huge waves of the Philippine capital.

Factory fire probes won't be quick, authorities warn

Factory fire probes won't be quick, authorities warn

Investigations into what sparked one of Melbourne's biggest factory fires will not be quick, fire and environment authorities have warned.

Why land burials of whales dig a big hole for the ocean

Why land burials of whales dig a big hole for the ocean

Nature will be the big winner if Australia stops burying dead whales and gives the mighty creatures sea burials instead, researchers say.

Riders urged to recycle e-bike batteries amid fire risk

Riders urged to recycle e-bike batteries amid fire risk

Australia's battery recycling scheme has started accepting lithium batteries from e-bikes and e-scooters and is urging riders to research their disposal.

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Why Australia is hosting an electric vehicle price war

Why Australia is hosting an electric vehicle price war

Why Australia is hosting an electric vehicle price war

Why Australia is hosting an electric vehicle price war

Thousands of dollars are being cut from the price of some electric cars as brands battle to lead the market and Chinese automakers face global taxes.

Toilet humour: campaign to flush out loo-blockers

Toilet humour: campaign to flush out loo-blockers

Toilet humour: campaign to flush out loo-blockers

Toilet humour: campaign to flush out loo-blockers

Fatbergs are on the rise, prompting a campaign to remind people not to flush items down the toilet that could cause blockages in Sydney's sewer system.

Post-mining world set for NSW government microscope

Post-mining world set for NSW government microscope

Post-mining world set for NSW government microscope

Post-mining world set for NSW government microscope

Advanced manufacturing, clean energy initiatives and tourism uses are some ideas for how NSW's mining sites can be used once shut down.

Recycling idea gave Indigenous communities plastic hope

Recycling idea gave Indigenous communities plastic hope

Recycling idea gave Indigenous communities plastic hope

Recycling idea gave Indigenous communities plastic hope

A recycling system for plastics recovered from waterways that offered Indigenous rangers jobs cleaning up country over-promised and under-delivered.

Traditional owners protest against mining at Jabiluka

Traditional owners protest against mining at Jabiluka

Traditional owners protest against mining at Jabiluka

Traditional owners protest against mining at Jabiluka

Mirarr traditional owners have protested outside ERA's AGM in Darwin, objecting to the company's bid to renew its lease at Jabiluka, which contains uranium.

Fresh park asbestos threat as council warned

Fresh park asbestos threat as council warned

Fresh park asbestos threat as council warned

Fresh park asbestos threat as council warned

The Environment Protection Authority has found another Melbourne park potentially contaminated by asbestos as it hits a council with two remedial notices.

Asbestos problem grows after three more park detections

Asbestos problem grows after three more park detections

Asbestos problem grows after three more park detections

Asbestos problem grows after three more park detections

The number of sites affected by asbestos continues to grow, with three Melbourne reserves closed following the discovery of the toxic fibres.

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Asbestos detected at three more Melbourne parks

Three more parks in Melbourne's southwest have been shut after asbestos material was found, bringing the total of asbestos-contaminated parks to five.

Rio Tinto steps in to manage Ranger uranium mine rehab

Mining giant Rio Tinto will take over rehabilitation of the former Ranger uranium mine in Kakadu in a move welcomed by Mirarr traditional owners.

Littering, asbestos fines to double in major crackdown

An asbestos crisis across Sydney has highlighted the urgent need for tighter environmental protection laws.

Company linked to asbestos scare challenging ban

A company linked to the detection of asbestos at sites across NSW is aiming to legally overturn prevention orders by the state's environmental watchdog.

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Laws to tighten, school reopens after asbestos scandal

Authorities have completed a major investigation to identify all sites affected by asbestos-tainted mulch but are still waiting on a handful of tests.

What a load of rubbish: Clean Up Australia going strong

As one state bans harmful coffee cups, people across the country have mucked in and picked up plastic waste and cigarette butts for Clean Up Australia Day.

Asbestos tainted mulch might have been sent to school

More than 20 Queensland sites have been supplied mulch that might contain asbestos after the hazardous material was detected at a site west of Brisbane.

Aussie farms polluted with plastic from sewage sludge

Microplastic pollution typically from synthetic clothes is contaminating sewage sludge used as fertiliser on farms across the nation.

Asbestos-tainted mulch potentially at hundreds of sites

Hundreds of sites are due to be tested for contaminated mulch including some outside Sydney as an expert group is formed to speed up the investigation.

Asbestos kills off Mardi Gras fair, shutters school

Asbestos-tainted mulch is to blame for the closure of a primary school in Sydney's southwest and the cancellation of a major Mardi Gras festival event.

Legal fight brewing as park asbestos scandal spreads

A landscaping supply company intends to fight an "unreasonable" prevention notice as more asbestos-contaminated mulch is detected across Sydney.

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