Great Barrier Reef Losing Its Lustre As Coral Bleaching Hits
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has sounded the alarm as warm waters drifts…More
Author: Thom Mitchell
Thom Mitchell
Thom Mitchell is New Matilda's Environment Reporter.
Whitehaven Coal Protestors Still Refusing To Clear Out As Critically Endangered Forest Falls
For embattled miner Whitehaven Coal, it’s a recurring nightmare: As the company seeks to flatten…More
Defence White Paper: Climate Change Threatens Regional Security
Malcolm Turnbull’s Defence White Paper has done what Abbott’s energy equivalent failed to do, acknowledging climate…More
Cutting Climate Science, Funding Fossil Fuels’ Growth: Welcome To The Age Of Innovation
Just weeks after we learned budget cuts to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)…More
Bernardi: Think Of The Children! (And Not About Whether I’m A Homophobe)
He may have been turfed as Tony Abbott’s Parliamentary Secretary in 2012 for linking same…More
Federal Senate Urges WA Parliament To Drop Anti-Protest Law
The Federal Senate has passed a motion calling on the West Australian government to abandon…More
Amnesty Report Blasts Australia’s Detention Of Aboriginal People And Asylum Seekers
Australia has come in for a drubbing in Amnesty International’s annual human rights report, with…More
Protestors Converge On West Australian Parliament, Condemn Anti-Protest Laws
Perth hosted a protest against anti-protest laws. Thom Mitchell reports. Hundreds have protested at the steps of…More
The ‘Human Fingerprints’ On Thousands Of American Floods
The effects of man-made climate change are well and truly already upon us, reports Thom…More
BP Offshore Oil Plan To Be Probed By Senate
The Federal Senate will inquire into British Petroleum’s plan to drill for oil off Australia’s southern…More