Report part of a project used in lobbying effort to dismiss UN concerns that industrial emissions were damaging 50,000-year-old ancient rock art * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Western Australia government “put a very rosy spin” on a summary report of a project checking if pollutants from Woodside were damaging 50,000-year-old rock art, according to a private email sent by the lead scientist. In an email released to the ABC, Murujuga Rock Art Monitoring Project lead scientist Prof Ben Mullins, of Curtin University, said the WA government had “insisted” on writing the summary report, despite a contract saying that Curtin should write it. Continue reading...

The Israeli prime minister has launched an extraordinary personal attack on Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, claiming he has "betrayed" Israel.

Exclusive: GHD identified 22 pathways for Alcoa’s mining to contaminate dams inland of Perth * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Alcoa’s plan to vastly expand its strip mining of forest near Perth’s dams poses a high risk to the water supply for the city’s 2.3 million people, according to global engineering consultancy GHD. The US aluminium producer commissioned the detailed analysis as part of its bid for approval to mine an additional 67 square kilometres of jarrah forest for bauxite – the source material for aluminium. Continue reading...

Some of the country’s most loved native species, including the koala and the hairy-nosed wombat, are on the brink. Is this their last chance at survival?

Guardian Australia is highlighting the plight of our endangered native species during an election campaign that is ignoring broken environment laws and rapidly declining ecosystems

Even the hardy eucalypts are finding their limits as we experience more frequent bushfires, heatwaves and droughts * Explore the series – Last chance: the extinction crisis being ignored this election * Get Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an email Last week I went to Adelaide to see a man about a tree. The man was Dr Dean Nicolle and the tree was actually 10,000 eucalypt trees and mallees, of over 800 species, which Dean has been planting on a block of land south of Adelaide since 1993. Dean’s passion for eucalypts is incredible. It makes me realise that so much conservation happens purely because someone is just absolutely captivated by something. And thank goodness Dean is, because his love for the eucalypt made the Currency Creek Arboretum, which is designed to bring together all of Australia’s eucalypt species in one place for research. Continue reading...