Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

Queensland is Australia’s top polluter – even worse than Western Australia, which has no climate target and adores its fossil fuel industry * Want to get this in your inbox when it publishes? Sign up for the Clear Air Australia newsletter here Meeting Australia’s emissions reduction targets is not going to be simple and the Queensland Liberal National government has gone out of its way to make it much harder. Its energy roadmap, released on Friday, can’t really be interpreted as anything other than a transparently political document, designed to placate climate sceptics that have a stranglehold on significant parts of the state’s governing party. You wouldn’t be heading down this path otherwise. Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...

The Herald has given more front page coverage in its series about Scottish land reform, this time focusing on recent legislation that was supposed to protect wildlife but instead is effectively &#8…