Latest environment news
Flooding and beach erosion possible as another storm looms
Peter Hannam 4:27 PM NSW may be in for another winter storm bringing heavy rain and a coastal storm surge with another east coast low projected to form off the coast.
Labor would grab back enviro controls
Peter Hannam 8:24 PM A Shorten government would consider a national environmental protection authority as part of efforts to grab back key conservation controls devolved by the Coalition from Canberra to the states.
'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.
'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?
'Potential for more severe weather'
Peter Hannam 11:14 AM Residents across an arc of eastern Australia stretching from Queensland to Tasmania should be on watch for more potentially severe weather this weekend as another winter storm loom, the Bureau of Meteorology said.
Wind farm boom looms as Andrews looks to boost clean power
Adam Morton 10:50 AM Victoria would have 40 per cent clean electricity in less than a decade - nearly tripling the current level – under an ambitious plan announced by the state government.
Reef's melomys is world's first mammal climate casualty: scientists
10:04 AM A rodent that lived on a low-lying coral cay in the Torres Strait has become the first mammal in the world to vanish as a result of human-induced climate change, researchers say.
Queensland set for another drenching
9:00 AM Forecasters say southern Queensland will cop another drenching.
India puts 18 lions on trial for murder, and the culprit may get a life sentence - in a zoo
Max Bearak 6:17 AM Police have rounded up 18 male suspects wanted for the murder of three in Gujarat, an arid western Indian state.
Prioritise Reef over coal: survey
Nicole Hasham 5:18 PM A thumping majority of Australians want the health of the Great Barrier Reef prioritised over coal mining, according to a survey of more than 63,000 Fairfax Media readers.
Canberra colder than Thredbo on Monday morning
Katie Burgess Thredbo top station had nothing on Canberra on Monday morning.
Carp virus will leave masses of dead fish in Canberra lakes
John Thistleton Research begins to avoid Canberra stench over biggest ever carp cull.
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.
CSG wastewater tanks adrift in flood
Peter Hannam What's in those bubbles, anti-CSG activists want to know.
