Despite being made of plastic bottles and recycled materials, the Plastiki catamaran survived its four-month ocean voyage to land in Sydney with a rousing call to end plastic pollution in the world’s oceans, Nick Evershed reports.

Jess Black reports on the mixed responses to the proposed national container deposit scheme.

Hundreds of students have protested outside the offices of the big players from Australia’s uranium industry.

Environmentalists want to see a quick closure of Australia’s dirtiest power station by 2012. But workers in the area fear that Gippsland could collapse once more if the government turns its back on them.

Almost 90 per cent of Australian homes have access to recycling but many don’t know what symbols stand for. Sarah Michael reports.

Experts believe that consumers need to know more about what to do with electronic waste writes Kirsten Brogaard.

According to a new report published in Nature magazine by a team of international scientists, the global ocean’s upper layer is definitely warming up. Sophie Perri talks to CSIRO Climate modeller Tony Hirst about climate change, and the state of our oceans.

Following the Australian government’s decision to delay an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) till 2012, the U.S. government has released their own ETS draft along with other plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions under a new climate bill.

A charge on traffic congestion is recommended by leading transport experts as the best solution to Melbourne’s growing $3 billion-a-year congestion problem writes Josh Kenworthy.

The campaign by environmental activists to close Hazelwood, Australia’s dirtiest power station, is set to intensify with a demonstration planned for Thursday. Jenny Jagerhorn reports. Image: simpsons fan 66