Graham Readfearn
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About Graham Readfearn
Graham Readfearn is an environment reporter for Guardian Australia.
Logging, bushfires and global heating doing a number on greater gliders
The cat-sized nocturnal marsupials, which are unique to Australia, live in areas from north Queensland to central Victoria.
Climate impact of food pipeline three times greater than previously believed
Researchers estimate that carbon emissions from transporting food are about six per cent of the global total, with fruit and vegetables the largest contributor.
Great Barrier Reef is not supposed to be white
Prof. Terry Hughes says he believes bleaching is under way as the Australian government conducts monitoring flights over 2,300-kilometre reef.
Aussie spy agency saw climate crisis coming 40 years ago — and fretted about its coal cash
In a taste of things to come, a secret Office of National Assessment report worried the "carbon dioxide problem" would hurt the nation’s coal industry.
Could piling on crushed rocks save the Great Barrier Reef?
Scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization found it was theoretically possible to turn back the clock on the effect of decades of fossil fuel burning, but the radical step came with “as yet unquantified risks.”
This sea slug can lop off its own head and grow a new body
The disembodied head of the sacoglossan sea slug feasts on algae while its old body decomposes, and a new one grows.
The future's too warm for baby sharks
Weaker sharks are less effective hunters, which can upset the balance of the ecosystem, say the authors of a study into the impacts of hotter oceans.
380 whales dead in worst mass stranding in Australia's history
More than 450 long-finned pilot whales became stranded in harbour in Tasmania with rescuers managing to save about 50
More than 80% of Indian Ocean dolphins may have been killed by commercial fishing
An estimated 4m small cetaceans caught as by-catch in commercial tuna fishing nets since 1950, researchers say
Australia needs 'fast-attack strategies' to stop megafires forming, bushfire experts say
Group of former fire and emergency services leaders tell bushfire royal commission rapid detection technologies are vital