Environment

Environment

Victoria to ban fracking

Fracking protesters outside AGL's annual general meeting in Melbourne in September, 2015.

A permanent ban on fracking and all exploration and development of unconventional gas will be introduced across Victoria.

Warning on climate's 'new normal'

Australia's climate will move into unpredictable territory if global warming reaches 2 degrees.

As the world endures a third straight year of record-breaking heat, a new study has given fresh insight into what global warming is likely to mean for Australians if it is not curbed.

World's largest marine park to be created off the coast of Hawaii

President Barack Obama, pictured here while hiking the Exit Glacier in Seward, Alaska, is looking to sure up his ...

President Barack Obama is set to vastly expand a marine sanctuary northwest of the main Hawaiian Islands, White House officials said Thursday, creating the world's largest protected marine area as he seeks to cement his environmental legacy in his last months in office.

The fight to bring back the devil

A female Tasmanian devil at Trowunna Wildlife Park, in Mole Creek, Tasmania.

Some of Australia's leading scientists are proposing that the endangered Tasmanian devil should be reintroduced to the mainland - to Victoria's Wilson's Prom specifically - as an insurance policy.