Good morning, this is Eleanor Ainge Roy bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Monday 5 March. The situation is especially bad in Queensland where more land is cleared of trees than in the rest of the country combined. The latest figures show 395,000 hectares were cleared in a single year – amounting to about a football stadium of clearing every three minutes. As part of our ongoing Wide Brown Land series, our environment editor Michael Slezak has been investigating the crisis. Sign upIf you would like to receive the Guardian Australia morning mail to your email inbox every weekday, sign up here.

Source: The Guardian March 04, 2018 20:03 UTC