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Illustration by Jeff Fisher

May, 2022

Where did all the bogongs go?

By Anthony Ham

The drastic decline of the bogong moth could have disastrous ecological consequences

Image of flood waters rising in Lismore, New South Wales, March 29, 2022. Image © Darren England / AAP Images

April, 2022

No relief

By Kieran Pender

From fires to floods, Australia is failing our disaster survivors

Photo of Marind community members sharing dreams of being eaten by oil palm

April, 2022

The psychic terror wrought by palm-oil production

By Sophie Chao

How oil-palm plantations have uprooted the lives and dreams of a Papuan community

Illustration by Jeff Fisher

April, 2022

Flooding back

By Sarah Holland-Batt

Watching the Brisbane River swell, once more, to a destructive force

Illustration by Jeff Fisher

July, 2021

Planetary defence

By Kieran Pender

A court ruling that the environment minister owes children a duty of care to prevent climate harm has far-reaching implications

Cartoon image of man standing on chess board

May, 2021

Reality is irreversible

By Scott Ludlam

The systems game and the need for global regime change

Image of salmon meat, from the documentary Paradise Lost

April, 2021

Dining on disaster

By Richard Flanagan, Justin Kurzel and Conor Castles-Lynch

What goes into the Tasmanian salmon on your plate. Essay by Richard Flanagan. Documentary by Justin Kurzel and Conor Castles-Lynch.

Still from ‘Paradise Lost’

April, 2021

Tasmania’s toxic secret

By Richard Flanagan, Justin Kurzel and Conor Castles-Lynch

The rotting underbelly of the salmon industry. Essay by Richard Flanagan. Documentary by Justin Kurzel and Conor Castles-Lynch.

April, 2021

Serenity

By Martin McKenzie-Murray

Give us not serenity but a sense of urgency in the face of catastrophic climate change

April, 2021

Up the river

By Margaret Simons

Hope is running dry in the Murray–Darling Basin