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The Australian Greens Party has called for a halt to offshore dumping of dredge spoil in Queensland’s World Heritage listed Great Barrier Reef. Australian Greens leader Senator Christine

Experts have warned the conservative Liberal National Party government in the northern state of Queensland to tread carefully in opening the gulf country to irrigation farming. The state

The European Union has adopted a new strategy aimed at promoting green infrastructure, and putting natural processes at the heart of its spatial planning. Under the new strategy the

A new advertising campaign by environmental lobby group, Greenpeace, takes aim at drink giant Coca-Cola's opposition to cash-for-containers recycling schemes. The environmental group says the 45-second advertisement, which

A new scientific study says land within the Arctic Circle is likely to experience explosive “greening” in the next few decades. The study, reported by the French newsagency AFP,

A judge in the United States has accepted an agreement by BP to plead guilty for its role in the Deepwater Horizon disaster and pay a record $4

Oil rig operator Transocean has agreed to pay US$1.4 billion to settle United States government charges over BP’s massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010. At the same

According to new research by the European Environment Agency (EEA), the European Union’s climate advisory body, European temperatures in the last decade were 1.3 degrees Celsius above the

The Environment Minister in Australia’s Labor government, Tony Burke, has finally signed into law a Murray-Darling Basin Plan aimed at restoring the long-term health of the major river