Bianca Hall
Bianca Hall is The Age's environment and climate reporter, and has worked in a range of roles including as a senior writer, city editor, and in the federal politics bureau in Canberra.
Koala towed behind ute in alleged act of animal cruelty
Witnesses to a disturbing act of alleged cruelty have been urged to go to police after the incident in a rural Victorian town.
- Bianca Hall
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‘Offensive’: Farmers and green groups lash Allan government over deer
With an estimated 1 million feral deer in Victoria causing untold damage to farms and the environment, farming and green groups have thrown down the gauntlet.
- Bianca Hall
‘Worst thing I’ve ever seen’: CSIRO slashes climate modelling jobs
Australia’s science agency is cutting more than 100 jobs in its Environment Research Unit, which critics say will crush our capacity to predict climate change.
- Bianca Hall
- Exclusive
- Climate crisis
Energy shock: families choose between cooling their homes and driving
“Intensifying global heat” has meant the time people are unable to do simple daily tasks – like walking, cleaning, or working outside – has doubled, a study has found.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons, Bianca Hall and Courtney Kruk
Leading rat poisons to face new restrictions, could be pulled from sale
Popular ranges of rat and mouse poisons which also kill owls and possums will be restricted for use within weeks and could be pulled from supermarket and hardware shelves within months.
- Bianca Hall
- Exclusive
- Wildlife
How this team is helping fur seals escape the scourge of plastic waste
Eyes in the skies can pick out an injured animal easily, even in a colony of hundreds, allowing researchers to conduct targeted rescues.
- Bianca Hall
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- Political lobbying
‘We got there!’: Text messages reveal Woodside’s negotiating tactics
Private text messages between Woodside officials and senior Australian decision-makers lift the lid on how the industry engages with government to get results.
- Bianca Hall
- Opinion
- Electric vehicles
A bush camping holiday with a runabout city EV? It can be done
Eight nights’ remote bush camping with two kids, towing a fully loaded trailer – in an EV. Yes, it can be done. But there are a few things to keep in mind.
- Bianca Hall
Fires and floods, fires and floods: Australia’s summer of extremes
Australia’s summer has been marked by repeated cycles of bushfires followed by floods, as Lake Eyre is set to be flooded for the second time in two years.
- Bianca Hall
SA’s algal bloom spreading north towards one of the world’s marine wonders
The annual aggregation of giant cuttlefish in the Spencer Gulf attracts photographers, divers and researchers from across the globe. But a microscopic menace could endanger the phenomenon.
- Bianca Hall