You'd think researchers who encounter some of the nastiest diseases affecting Australian animals would want to destroy them pronto. But that's not the case.

Spring might have sprung across the nation but it arrives with the prospect of an extension of Australia's wet and relatively mild winter.

ACT must continue to lead nation by achieving carbon-neutrality by 2040, environmental groups.

More CSIRO jobs are on the line as the Coalition plans to de-fund he Australian Renewable Energy Agency.

Spring is declared to be "well and truly here" for the Harbour City.

Dogs pay attention to the meaning of words, a new study shows.

Omnibus savings bill contains lethal threat to Australia's clean energy innovation effort, say researchers.

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At its heart, Dan Andrews' permanent ban on fracking in Victoria is easy politics - which doesn't mean it's the wrong decision. Added up from a political, economic and environmental perspective, it makes sense.

More than 100 flights were cancelled and evacuation warnings issued for thousands of people as a powerful typhoon approached Japan's northeast on Tuesday.

Firefighters are using fire-opitc cameras find and rescue a dog trapped inside a disused concrete power pole in Conder.

Scientists say aerial shooting best way of culling brumbies.

Birdbrains they may be. But don’t underestimate the humble chook when it comes to having an ear for music. Dem birds have rhythm.

Stockholm More than 300 wild reindeer were found dead after lightning struck a central mountain plateau in southern Norway, authorities say.

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.

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.

Emergency services have resumed searching for an elderly man feared drowned by flood waters as torrential downpours and strong winds battered the NSW coast, with Sydney soaked by more than half the month's average rainfall in less than 24 hours.

One man is missing as torrential rain and flash flooding hit the NSW coast on Wednesday night, when more than a month's worth of rain was expected to hit Sydney in 12 hours.

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.

While it's doubtful how effective he would be in actual combat, a king penguin has been made a Brigadier by the King of Norway.

A nationally significant koala population could be wiped out within a couple of decades.

Sydney should lap up Tuesday's relatively sunny weather as a deepening low-pressure system brings the prospect of a wet end to the working week.

Rain and a cold front on the way.

It's not quite The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but the results of a study comparing the sharpness and durability of different shark teeth sawing through prey were almost as scary.