Latest environment news
'People just believe the risk doesn't exist'
Peter Hannam, Melanie Kembrey The damage wrought by the Sydney storm has provided us with a reality check. But where do we go from here? And where else is at risk?
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.
Canberra colder than Thredbo on Monday morning
Katie Burgess 7:07 PM Thredbo top station had nothing on Canberra on Monday morning.
Carp virus will leave masses of dead fish in Canberra lakes
John Thistleton 12:00 AM Research begins to avoid Canberra stench over biggest ever carp cull.
'The tip of the iceberg'
Peter Hannam The state's farmers have lopped paddock trees at an accelerating rate in the past 18 months even before a new land-clearing law eases controls further, government figures obtained by the Greens show.
Woman ditches corporate life to save elephants
Amy Mitchell-Whittington One woman's battle to save her family of elephants in Africa.
Do tourists turn away from heritage sites at risk?
Jon C Day 1.88 million tourists visited the Great Barrier Reef in 2014.
Is Australia a future electric car power?
James Hall Australia's high-cost economy and small market potential provide a sobering reality to the Greens' policy, according to experts.
Egg industry grinding male chicks to death
Esther Han More than 12 million male chicks are suffocated or shredded to death each year because they're seen as worthless. This cruelty could soon end.
$2.7m to fit Qld bats with trackers
Bats across Queensland will be fitted with satellite trackers to allow researchers to better understand their movements.
"These are the signs that make you cross your fingers": Bumper snowfall may be just over horizon
Inga Ting The 2016 winter is likely to bring two of the three weather patterns which, in combination, create the ideal conditions for a bumper snow season, climate experts say.
Boost for NSW solar farms as government directs electricity supplier to make purchase
Sean Nicholls The NSW government's electricity supplier has been asked to buy a substantial amount of energy from the state's solar farms – enough to power about 700 schools.
'Boy did he smell good!'
Esther Han A hungry seagull dyed its plumage a bright shade of orange after plunging into a vat of chicken curry sauce.
Dolphin 'takes off like a bullet' after being rescued from Namibian beach
Esther Han 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 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.