The threat of wild weather didn't stop locals from greening the Coronet Bay foreshore.

A landmark project will use mangroves, saltmarsh and seagrass as the first line of defence against climate change in Western Port.

Let’s listen to the coastal engineering experts who’ve done the work, urges Trevor Forge

Is it finally time to install a home battery? Electricity guru Werner Theinert does the sums so you don’t have to.

The government has finally recognised their value. Now to turn recognition into protection. By Catherine Watson

Managing fire for people and wildlife is not rocket science, writes Professor Mike Clarke; it’s much more complex than that.”

Bass Coast Shire Council has launched Living Lightly Bass Coast - a series of workshops that will run across the year to help residents learn new skills to live more sustainably.

Four weeks after fire razed over 100 hectares of woodland, Dr Sera Blair began the process of documenting the survival and return of wildlife to the Gurdies fire zone.

You wouldn’t pick Russ Williams for a typical greenie but he’s ready to defend his patch of bush.

​The largest stand of critically endangered Strzelecki Gums in existence has been found at the former Holden Proving Ground, confirming its status as a biodiversity hotspot.

Two inspirational Bass Coast native gardens kick off the Open Gardens Victoria spring season, writes Kate Anderson.

The South Gippsland Conservation Society is pushing for urgent dune reconstruction to prevent further damage.

Tim Herring does the sums on home battery storage.

Council’s flawed rural tourism strategy could be the death knell for farming on Phillip Island, warns Greg Johnson

What’s your favourite local tree? Perhaps the Townsend Bluff eucalypt, climbed and loved by many, or the extraordinary Churchill Island moonahs.

This enemy overpowers everything in its way, but Jon Temby is equally pitiless. And the tide is turning.

Only two specimens have ever been collected and one of them was found in the Western Port Woodlands. Ian Pascoe tells the tale of his favourite fungus.

Sand miners ride roughshod over Bass Coast community with mining regulator’s acquiescence, writes Neil Rankine

Phillip Island’s little penguin population has survived a strong El Nino event, with a higher than expected number of fledgling chicks this breeding season.

The discovery of a rarely seen Eastern Ground Parrot in Inverloch has local birdwatchers wondering if there might be others around. Dallas Wyatt reports.