News for November, 2025
Welcome to some environmental news for November. As usual, it is just a fraction of the environmental news available. If you want to start seeing what I've missed or left out, I have added a list of common articles sources to the left hand margin. Environment The news of the moment is that Australia's revised environment laws have been passed. The revisions represent a substantial improvement over the original, closing loopholes in logging, and reducing ministerial interference in project approvals. Nevertheless, there is still a lot of room for improvement, especially in the recognition of climate change being a fundamental driver of environmental degradation. It seems the message got through (- ACF) Reviews of the legislation are required to take place every ten years, so we get to go through all this in 2030! Hopefully, there will be fewer weeds to clear out. The Ugly A report alerting the NSW Environment Protection Authority to elevated lead levels in children was b...