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On this day seven years ago, I was in Angelsea supporting the community's campaign to close a polluting coal-burning power plant. Surf Coast Air Action and supporters were sick and tired of the pollution...

Welcome to Friends of the Earth Melbourne August news our state-wide monthly update.  In this edition, get into action to protect our Snow Gums, help stop South Gippsland forest logging, join our Forest collective...

On this episode of The Grapevine, Kulja and Dylan get on the line with Cam Walker from Friends of the Earth to discuss his new report, An Icon at Risk: Current and Emerging threats to the...

Snow Gums (Eucalyptus pauciflora) are the classic alpine tree of the High Country, generally growing at heights between 1,300 and 1,800 metres asl. Anyone who has visited the Australian High Country will know – and probably...

The clock's ticking for Prime Minister Scott Morrison. The critically-important COP26 climate summit is just three months away, and expectations to increase 2030 targets are growing. Will Morrison take a strong target to the...

As Victoria shivers through a good, old fashioned winter, it might be a strange time to be thinking about fire. But next fire season will be with us soon enough, and there are some...

Just weeks after Friends of the Earth launched the People's Climate Strategy for Victoria, a project with over a thousand contributors, the Andrews government is calling for community input on the state's first Adaptation...

The Victorian environment minister’s office has refused to extend public consultation on alarming changes that would significantly deregulate logging in Victoria’s native forests and undermine community legal challenges to perceived illegal logging.  Join us...

The Latrobe Valley’s first wind project, the Delburn wind farm, has taken another step toward reality, with the public submissions period for the project now underway.  Proposed in pine plantation in the Strzelecki Ranges...

Local residents near the Yarram region in South Gippsland have recently been dismayed that their beloved local forest, Alberton West State Forest, has been earmarked by VicForests for logging. Local residents have protested the...