Tropical Cyclone Niran is expected to intensify into a category three storm within the next 24 hours.

The Bureau of Meteorology is saying communities from Cape Melville to Innisfail are now in the warning zone.  The cyclone is not expected to make landfall. 

A UN report has calculated that three of Australia’s world heritage-listed marine sites have more than 2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide locked in seagrass meadows, coastal mangroves and tidal marshes.

The Great Barrier Reef holds the biggest stocks of blue carbon across all the 50 world heritage marine sites.

Carbon becomes trapped in these marine parks over thousands of years but can be disturbed by the effects of climate change.

Another two Rio Tinto executives have resigned following the destruction of two Aboriginal sacred sites in western Australia last year.

Chairman Simon Thompson and Michael L'Estrange will step down, Mr. Thompson says he was ultimately responsible for the destruction.

 Mr L'Estrange led a widely discredited internal review of the incident that saw the Juukan Gorge heritage sites destroyed in blasts by the mining company to access iron ore in may last year.

Wild pigs are often listed as ecosystem destroyers, but a University of Queensland study has found they also cultivate biodiverse rainforests in their native habitats.

The researchers tagged more than 30,000 tree seedlings in a Malaysian rainforest and examined how tree diversity changed in the areas where pigs nested. 

Dr Matthew Luskin says their nests may be critical to maintaining diverse and balanced tree communities.

Protesters are taking streets in Myanmar to demand the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, the iconic figure of the country, who’s detained under her house since the beginning of February.

Singapore PM Lee Hsein Loong says the military’s actions are an enormous step back for Myanmar.

The PM says the countries outside have very little influence on what Myanmar does, but China and extensively India has an impact on Myanmar.

An agricultural group called Monaro Farming Systems, associated with Energy Minister Angus Taylor's brother, has thanked the New South Wales Deputy Premier, John Barilaro for a one hundred and seven thousand dollar grant used to fund research to support efforts to water down protections of endangered grassland.

Mr Taylor has previously come under fire for approaching the then environment Minister, Josh Frydenberg, to discuss the possibility of weakening native grassland protections.

Information from Queensland’s electoral roll could be used to locate and contact people about Covid-19 Vaccination arrangements.

The urgency of the vaccine rollout has prompted a request to amend the Electoral Regulation to allow the Electoral Commission to hand over details including voters name, address, occupation and date of birth to Queensland Health.