Oil giant BP has its sights on drilling within a commonwealth marine reserve.

They have lived among us for close to 4000 years. You've likely seen scuttle solo over railway tracks. Or heard nighttime gnawing in your walls or ceiling. Most of the time, you don't even know they're there. And that's the way they like it.

On current forecasts, maximum temperatures will struggle to rise above 17 degrees until Monday.

It sounds like the beginning of a Hollywood zombie thriller. But a bigger, less exciting horror film is also playing out as in Siberia.

New South Wales has been reminded that winter is here to stay, with heavy snow and flooding hitting the state's west, closing roads and leaving several dozen people stranded.

The popular breed has a litany of health problems - and so little genetic diversity that it's probably beyond saving.

A photographer who captured spectacular photos of orcas hunting humpback whale calves off WA's northern coast has described the scenes as "intense" and "distressing" - but ultimately just part of nature at work.

Six week's after she was born with a rare condition that left her unable to stand or feed, Melbourne Zoo's vets decided that their elephant calf had been through enough pain.

Some fish may cope with the changing chemistry of the oceans linked to global warming by permanently setting their body defences to night-time levels, the time of day when they find seawater least hospitable, a study says.

It was a 40 year animal mystery which followed perhaps thousands of years of silence.

A 'one-in-35-year' storm is partly to blame for the death of about 200,000 pine trees in Kowen Forest.

Winter's not yet done with another storm brewing for coastal NSW.

A rare southern right whale albino calf has been spotted off the south-west coast of WA.

WA's South West is preparing to be hit by damaging winds predicted to reach up to 125 km/h on Friday.

One day apparently is a long time in climate change politics.

A seven-year-old girl has died in a freak accident at a Moroccan zoo when an elephant threw a rock that struck the child in the head, the zoo has confirmed.

Honeycomb the alpaca, famous for riding in the back of his owner's little red Mazda 121, but more importantly offering some joy and comfort to the sick, dying and lonely, has passed away.

Chuffing noises, scent marking and smooches through the fence are signs Canberra zoo's latest matchmaking operation is going to plan.

New wind farm guidelines are expected to impose tough requirements on developers to limit their visual impact.

"I know a lot of things I don't want to know": Inside the world of marine scientist Professor Emma Johnston.

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First it was dead birds, then noise. Now wind farms are being blamed for destroying the electricity market and pushing prices as high as $14,000 per megawatt hour.

The oil and gas industry has the potential to drive climate change action but only if it makes a clear break with its coal cousins.

It's time for the Baird government to link national carbon goals to NSW's planning rules, the EDO says.

Possums, long considered a pest in New Zealand, now face eradication in the country by 2050, along with with other foreign predators such as rats and stoats.

Vigorous winds will persist across southeastern NSW tonight after a severe weather warning was issued by the Bureau of Meteorology earlier today. 

Gusty winds set to sweep across peaks surrounding the capital sparked a severe weather warning for parts of the ACT and Snowy Mountains on Monday night.