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Win for the Forests! - Victorian State Government to End All Native Forest Clearfell Logging by 2024
May 26, 2023
On Tuesday, the Victorian State Government announced a historical decision: Native forest clearfell logging will end, on January 1st, 2024. This is a campaign that Friends of the Earth has been campaigning for decades....
Read More ShareCommonwealth's $132.7m Legal Settlement Will Not Resolve National PFAS Contamination Issues
May 17, 2023
A recent legal settlement of $132.7 million, will do little to deal with the ongoing issues of PFAS contamination across the country. The settlement was the result of a class action on behalf of...
Read More ShareNorthern Territory Drinking Water Report 2003-2022
April 04, 2023
Friends of the Earth started an ambitious project in January 2023 with an idea to determine which communities in Australia suffer from the poorest drinking water quality. The first focus of this research has...
Read More ShareDangerous rig shut down and dolphins killed
November 24, 2022
Two unreported and extremely dangerous incidents recently illustrate the contempt the offshore fossil fuel industry has for the environment and the Australian taxpayer. A rig in a marine conservation reserve off the Pilbara coast...
Read More ShareSubmission: Burning Native Forests is not Renewable
October 07, 2022
Friends of the Earth Australia Submission on burning native forest timber (biomass burning) for energy production in Australia (In relation to Climate Change Bill 2022 and Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022)
Read More ShareChanging Beautifully: Transforming Carbon
August 24, 2022
"What would happen if we talked of caring for carbon?", asks Aviva Reed, a transdisciplinary visual ecologist, for Chain Reaction #143. Perhaps always thinking of carbon as the "enemy" of the climate erases the...
Read More ShareAustralia’s Mining Rush for Green Energy
August 24, 2022
Australia is leading a mining boom to provide resources for the ‘green energy transition’ - a transformation in energy and infrastructure which the Paris Agreement (2015) stipulates must occur to avoid perilous levels of...
Read More ShareProtecting our Native Forests for Climate and Public Health
August 12, 2022
Forests can help us mitigate climate impacts - yet Victoria's native forests are being logged and burned, writes Alana Mountain writes for Chain Reaction #142.
Read More ShareCOVID was just a practice run
August 08, 2022
The Lismore floods show that radical action needs to be taken now, writes Zianna Faud for Chain Reaction #142 - "...although I have trust in spontaneous and unpredictable social transformation, the truth is, there...
Read More ShareThe Lismore Floods: A Reflection
August 06, 2022
Tessa Campisi shares a heartfelt reflection on the Lismore floods, for Chain Reaction #142.
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