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Kalbar Resources, a company that has no mining experience, has proposed a mineral sands and rare earths mine at Glenaladale, near Bairnsdale in East Gippsland. The Fingerboards mine has not yet been approved by...

On this episode we will catch up Laura Sykes - Friends of the Earth’s Sustainable Cities collective coordinator to talk about all things transport, climate change and anew campaign that is being launched called...

Welcome to Friends of the Earth Melbourne September enews our state-wide monthly update.  Get on board for the Better Buses campaign zoom launch with Sustainable Cities, and join our Opportunities for Offshore Wind online...

Read the latest briefing on the proposed National Radioactive Waste Management Facility (MRWMF) in South Australia, why the current location at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) is much safer, the myths...

The critically-important COP26 climate summit is just two months away and pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to increase Australia's 2030 climate target. Senior officials from the United States, United Kingdom, Germany,...

The Victorian government has today announced it will power the entire Victorian government with renewable energy, including every public school and hospital and Melbourne’s entire metropolitan train network.Community-driven environment group Friends of the Earth...

The 2019/2020 mega bushfires had a heartbreaking impact on our forest ecosystems and killed or displaced nearly 3 billion animals, some of which were already threatened species.  Despite the Black Summer bushfires, in March...

Fire has played a pivotal role in almost all landscapes across Australia for millions of years. The continent of Australia is a cultural and natural landscape: it has been shaped by First Nations peoples...

Friends of the Earth’s 2020/21 Strzelecki koala surveys have again stalled due to Covid 19. We had aimed at getting 200 surveys completed by the end of July. We’re 86% of the way there...

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...