Latest environment news
Climate change will bring worse storms
Peter Hannam Storms like the one of the past weekend may become fewer with climate change - but be more intense.
We can’t coast along in the face of fierce storms
Ron Cox A lot of coastal development has taken place in locations we now know to be inappropriate. How do we fix it?
CSG wastewater tanks adrift in flood
Peter Hannam What's in those bubbles, anti-CSG activists want to know.
Key koala habitat for sale
Peter Hannam 'Surplus government land' up for auction is in the path of these koalas' spring ritual.
'There's a real spike in the graph'
Peter Hannam A March heatwave and warm sea-surface temperatures made autumn unusually warm.
Sydney set to cop a soaking
Peter Hannam Better plan for a weekend spent largely indoors if you live in coastal NSW - and keep the mops and buckets handy.
Dolphin 'takes off like a bullet' after being rescued from Namibian beach
Esther Han 4:02 PM A video of a dolphin rescue is going viral.
Victoria to stop pumping out carbon dioxide by 2050, Premier promises
Adam Morton and Josh Gordon 12:36 PM Zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 - which would see an end to coal-powered electricity generation - is the ambitious target set by Premier Daniel Andrews.
Collaroy residents happy to pay for seawall
A man whose million-dollar beachfront property on Sydney's northern beaches was damaged by king tides says he and his neighbours are happy to chip in for the construction of a seawall.
'By far the biggest ever month'
Peter Hannam A windy May across south-eastern Australia helped smash wind energy generation records.
Trees cocooned in webs as spiders take refuge in flood-hit Tasmania
Megan Levy It's an arachnophobic's worst nightmare. As the flood emergency continues to grip parts of Tasmania, millions of tiny spiders have evacuated their waterlogged nests and burrows and taken refuge in the trees in the town of Westbury, near Launceston.
Meet the fish that's taken control of a jellyfish
Esther Han Underwater photographer Tim Samuel was in search of sea turtles when he encountered the most bizarre pairing he'd ever seen in his life.
Collaroy seawall delayed by funding row
Daisy Dumas, Nick Ralston and Ava Benny-Morrison Volunteers are racing against the clock to shore up vulnerable beachfront homes in Sydney's north ahead of the arrival of another king tide on Tuesday night.
Damaging winds in ACT alpine areas on Thursday
Higher parts of ACT could receive wind gusts up to 90 kilometres per hour on Thursday, meteorologists have warned.
Canberra zoo's Bakkar the Bengal Tiger dies, aged 21
Katie Burgess Canberra's National Zoo and Aquarium's elderly Bengal tiger, Bakkar has died.
Island corals 'slimy' after bleaching
Corals surrounding Great Barrier Reef island turn shade of brown.
Collaroy Beach before and after photos
Collaroy Beach has lost 50m of sand following the massive storms and king tides that hit Sydney over the weekend.
Sydney storm: erosion swallows 50 metres of Collaroy, Narrabeen beaches
Megan Levy, Ava Benny-Morrison, Daisy Dumas Huge waves and king tides pummelling the NSW coast have eroded away about 50 metres of Narrabeen and Collaroy beaches, where a number of badly damaged waterfront properties remain at risk of toppling into the sea, an expert says.
Sydney starts to count storm chaos costs
Nick Ralston, Rachel Olding, Ava Benny-Morrison, Megan Levy At least three people are dead, buildings on Sydney's east coast are on the brink of collapse and parts of the city's south-west still submerged in water as the destruction from a weekend of wild storms and huge seas became evident on Monday.
No criminal charges for mother in gorilla death case
Mark Berman, Sarah Larimer and Lindsey Bever The mother of a three-year-old boy who tumbled into a gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo late last month won't face criminal charges in the wake of the incident, a prosecutor in Ohio said Monday.
Battered Sydney recovers after extreme weather
Esther Han, Rachel Olding, Georgina Mitchell Sydney is recovering after a weekend being battered by a major storm fuelled by an east coast low pressure system.
Wild weather claims several lives in NSW and ACT
Rachel Olding Wild weather across the country has claimed three lives following three incidents of cars being swept away in flood waters.
Sydney storm: Motorists die in floodwaters, coastline eroded
Three motorists have died in the floodwaters following the NSW storms.
Lake George holds water for the first time in several years
Katie Burgess As quick as Lake George started to hold water due to rain lashing the region, the water subsided.
Homes teeter on the edge in Collaroy as coastline washed away
Ava Benny-Morrison, Nick Ralston Homes on Sydney's northern beaches have been partially washed away in the violent storms that battered the NSW coastline over the weekend.
Sydney storms: Narrabeen-Collaroy beach lashed by large seas
Louise Hall The intense storm lashing the NSW coast appears to have caused significant erosion at Narrabeen-Collaroy beach on Sydney's northern beaches.
There's plenty more rain to come in Canberra
Natasha Boddy Canberra received a month's worth of rain in a day over the weekend, but escaped the worst of the region's wild weather.
Sydney wipeout: Residents evacuated, coastlines eroded as wild storms hit NSW
Louise Hall, Michael Evans Residents were being evacuated from low-lying areas around Sydney on Sunday night and huge seas were threatening to engulf coastal homes as wild storms battered the state for a second day.
SES stays on high alert as king tide adds to coastal flood
Greg Ellis The highest tide of the year at the end of a weekend of torrential rain had the SES on high alert on Sunday night.
Sydney weather: State lashed by wild storms
Josh Dye, Rachel Browne The state has been lashed by wild weather.
Bob Brown's new campaign: development through the Tarkine
Adam Morton Former Greens leader Bob Brown is trying to get backing for a development in pristine Tasmanian wilderness – in order to save it.
NSW Weather: Storms hit NSW South Coast
Adam Wright and Louise Hall The far south coast was battered by wild weather over the weekend, with reports of damage across the region.
Flood evacuation order as wild weather pummels Sydney
Louise Hall Sydney's Vivid lights were dimmed, and some events cancelled, as winds and rain pummeled NSW and threatened to flood at least 23 river valleys.