Workers at Australia's animal shelters are being left emotionally scarred from witnessing the ...
The amount of native forest cut down in NSW increased by 36 per cent last year but revenue from ...
A surge in shark attacks on Maui in the past year, including two fatal attacks, has not stopped ...
The federal government says it remains committed to a World Heritage nomination for the Cape York ...
The Japanese whaling fleet is said to be on the run again in the Antarctic after being found by ...
WA's endangered Carnaby's cockatoo lets its chicks die from neglect.
A crackdown on NSW tyre retailers found half of those inspected were unaware of their ...
Australia Day is shaping up to be an excellent day weatherwise, as is the holiday on Monday.
What if there was a way to protect people and sharks? Well, there is: you just tow big sharks out ...
During this time of celebration for all things Australian, we are being urged to eat our national ...
A tired and wet joey who had fallen into an abandoned dam was rescued by Queanbeyan rural ...
Large trees in the Perth Hills are continuing to die off and scientists fear the area will again be ...
China will allow big emitters to use offset credits from nitrous dioxide (N2O) destruction to meet ...
Developers in China installed a record 12 gigawatts of solar panels last year, almost matching the ...
Wind and solar power producers said they’re at risk of losing investment after the European Union’s ...
Environment Minister Greg Hunt has confirmed the Abbott government will seek to wind back the World ...
Climate change should be taught to all students from middle primary school and be embedded in a ...
The overlooked 'nose' of an African fish forces scientists to look at the fossil record with new ...
A crackdown on NSW tyre retailers found half the outlets inspected were unaware of their ...
Hollywood star Ricky Gervais has lent his considerable Twitter celebrity to the campaign against ...
Parts of Brisbane have been hit by flash floods as a large storm system set in on Thursday ...
Environment Minister Greg Hunt has underscored the government's determination to pursue the ...
A last-minute intervention by a councillor has thwarted moves to remove protesters from two mining ...
Environment Minister Greg Hunt has confirmed for the first time that the Abbott government will ...
The Sahara is moving south at 15 km a year, increasing the struggle for scarse land betweenn ...
The European Union scaled back its long-term climate and energy ambitions, proposing less stringent ...
China must increase spending on emission cuts and clean technologies by 2 trillion yuan ($A373 ...
The average temperature of Earth maintained its warming trend in 2013, despite seasonal and ...
The ability of forecasters and climate modellers to predict extreme weather patterns over the ...
A swirling storm stretching 1600 kilometres has clobbered parts of the mid-Atlantic and the urban ...
A group of hot chicks really ruffled some feathers on a Monkey Mia beach this week after they were ...
More than 40 bottlenose dolphins were killed during an annual hunt in Japan, the conservation group ...
The West Australian government raised the possibility of an open sea shark cull, or having the ...
Another spell of heat is headed for south-eastern Australia just as conditions ease for fire crews ...
When Perth has a heatwave, the eastern states brace for the extreme weather to follow through and ...
2013 was the fourth warmest on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in ...
CO2 Group, Australia's biggest carbon project developer, said its chief executive has resigned as ...
Greenland will push ahead with a uranium and rare earths mine despite the objections of its former ...
Australia's drinking water is highly vulnerable to weather extremes, and utilities need to act to ...
Australia's drinking water supplies are vulnerable to the increased intensity and frequency of ...
Blood flowed from beneath a shoreside tent as dolphins were killed at Taiji, Japan, on Tuesday.
Environment Minister Greg Hunt has waved through the West Australian government's controversial ...
Environment Minister Greg Hunt has waved through the West Australian government's controversial ...
Gavin Fletcher of Bonython got quite a surprise when the “ball of rope rolling around” on a walking ...
Queensland is braced for yet another scorcher as the drought continues to take hold across the ...
Seven years after it set some of the world's most stringent environmental targets, the European ...
Climate change will play havoc with farming, and policy makers and researchers aren't fully aware ...
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are seeking to increase the efficiency of ...
Abdul Latif Jameel, a Saudi Arabian company, has teamed up with a European partner to build ...
For the first time water bought by the federal government to restore the environment in the ...
Commercial advertising will be a permanent feature of the Bureau of Meteorology website and the ...
Wine grape growers across Victoria and southern NSW say early estimates of the damage caused by ...
Canberra is a long way off water restrictions even though last week's heatwave and a dry start to ...
Monstrous plumes of smoke climbed hundreds of metres into the air as the out-of-control Minnimbah ...
Last week's heatwave that baked most of south-eastern Australia rivalled the intensity of the ...
A federal government plan to tackle tyre waste has gained only lukewarm support from some big ...
The intervention of United State Ambassador Caroline Kennedy sharply raised the focus on Japan's ...
A sizeable earthquake has struck the lower half of New Zealand's North Island.
Spearing NSW's official state fish has landed a fisherman $3660 in fines and court costs after he ...