Andy Ball

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Nick Evershed |Andy Ball

Newly released data shows the the gender pay gap at over 7,800 employers, with the data covering every private company with 100 employees or more in Australia. In this interactive graphic we have updated our 2024 pay gap explorer to the newly released figures from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

Jul 16, 2024 | theguardian.com | Josh Nicholas |Andy Ball |Nick Evershed

Between the climate crisis, natural disasters, the rising cost of living and never-ending housing crises, it can feel like there’s nothing but bad news out there. But on many measures the world is actually getting better. In Australia and around the world literacy rates are improving, the life expectancy of Australians has increased by more than a year over the past decade (despite a pandemic bump), and the cost of solar energy has dropped significantly.

Jun 11, 2024 | news.mongabay.com | Andy Ball

Along the coast of Cambodia, illegal fishing is driving fish stocks toward collapse and fishing communities into poverty. The Cambodian government’s capacity for and will to counter fisheries problems are minimal, and several government fisheries reform efforts are off track or behind schedule. As one multimillion-dollar foreign project to bolster government capacity and revive Cambodian fish stocks comes to an end, another is just kicking off.

Jun 4, 2024 | news.mongabay.com | Andy Ball

Coastal communities in Cambodia are facing a double threat, from land and sea, as developers evict them from their homes and farms, and trawlers encroach on their nearshore fishing grounds. Illegal fishing, chiefly embodied by rampant, unchecked trawling in protected and prohibited waters, has devastated fish stocks, trashed marine ecosystems and left coastal communities in dire poverty.

May 29, 2024 | news.mongabay.com | Andy Ball

On Cambodia’s coast, fish catches have dropped precipitously in recent years, and so have small-scale fishers’ incomes. Small-scale fishers say commercial trawlers have been illegally entering their fishing grounds, scraping the sea clean of life and, with it, their community’s ability to survive.