In line with the Arid Lands Environment Centre’s (ALEC) vision of ‘healthy futures for arid lands and people’ ALEC supports the rights of all people regardless of sexuality and gender to marry. Healthy communities...

Desert Knowledge Precinct, South Stuart Highway Tuesday 26th September Alice Springs school students and community members will have the opportunity to view a solar electric car, meet past Bridgestone World Solar Challenge participants and...

The Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC) welcomes the Northern Territory Government’s adoption of a policy of disclosure for mining security bond amounts. The Government will now disclose the amount of security held against individual authorised mining activities...

The RePower Alice Springs Community Solar Survey has received 816 responses, with the vast majority of residents expressing a desire for a significant increase in solar powered energy for Alice Springs. The Solar Survey...

A MediaReach poll conducted for the NT News has revealed 51 per cent of Territorians support a ban on fracking. With support for a ban on fracking higher in rural areas, Alice Springs, Katherine, Daly...

Renewable energy and waste to energy technologies will be a feature at desertSMART Ecofair 2017, with special guests journalist and science communicator Giles Parkinson from Renew Economy and Associate Professor Bernadette McCabe from the...

In a week where we have heard that the Northern Territory has had the hottest July on record, the Northern Territory Scientific inquiry into Hydraulic Fracturing has been told by a leading researcher that fracking the...

desertSMART EcoFair will be once again be putting science and sustainability in the spotlight in Central Australia with a program of events running over the weekend Friday 11th August - Sunday 13th August.  desertSMART...

With today’s release of the Interim Report of the NT Fracking Inquiry, and the start of construction on the Northern Gas Pipeline this week, the Arid Lands Environment Centre is calling on the Northern...

NT Environmental Regulatory Reform The Northern Territory Department of Environment and Natural Resources has released a discussion paper for environmental regulatory reform. The paper outlines the aspirations and objectives of the Government to completely...

150 people attended the opening of the 60,000 Artists Climate Change Exhibition at Watch This Space on Friday June 2nd to celebrate World Environment Day. Artist were asked to create an artwork that responded...

This week indigenous rangers from across the southern half of a Western Australia and the western half of South Australia are coming together at Ilkurlka for the inaugural Southern Deserts Ranger Forum.   Located more...