Stripped bare: Australia's hidden climate crisis

# Australia weather

# Australian politics

# Climate crisis

# Coalition

# Conservation

# Deforestation

# Drought

# Endangered habitats

# Environmental activism

# Farming

# Greenhouse gas emissions

# Indigenous Australians

# Labor party

# Law (Australia)

# National party

# New South Wales

# New South Wales politics

# Pollution

# Queensland

# Queensland politics

# Rural Australia

# Trees and forests

# Wildlife

An epidemic of land clearing is sabotaging efforts to address climate change. Farming communities are bitterly divided over the issue – but it also has global consequences

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Anne Davies, Mike Bowers, Andy Ball and Nick Evershed

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