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.

Woman ditches corporate life to save elephants

Amy Mitchell-Whittington   One woman's battle to save her family of elephants in Africa.

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Do tourists turn away from heritage sites at risk?

Jon C Day   1.88 million tourists visited the Great Barrier Reef in 2014.

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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.