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Green groups' 'lawfare' against mines has broad support: poll
Even Coalition supporters are in favour of using the courts to challenge mining projects, a survey finds.
Even Coalition supporters are in favour of using the courts to challenge mining projects, a survey finds.
The world's two biggest polluters have formally ratified the Paris agreement to curb climate change in a joint announcement ahead of the G20 summit in Hangzhou.
Spring might have sprung across the nation but it arrives with the prospect of an extension of Australia's wet and relatively mild winter.
The world's 20 largest economies need to increase their climate commitments, and Australia's not doing its fair share.
The Climate Change Authority has backed off its commitment to assess the implications of the Paris climate accord in a move critics say signals a weakening of its independence.
A massive Reachtel poll of more than 10,271 people has found a thumping majority of Australians oppose the government cutting $1 billion from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency.
Australia's second wettest winter on record is likely to delay the onset of the fire season across much of the nation's south.
A permanent ban on fracking and all exploration and development of unconventional gas will be introduced across Victoria.
Adani's Carmichael coal mine has cleared another legal hurdle after the Federal Court threw out a challenge against the project.
With the clock ticking down on the controversial Ranger mine, government oversight is being cut.
High-profile members of the federal government's Climate Change Authority have launched a stinging critique of their colleagues, accusing them of giving "untrue and dangerous" advice that ignores what science demands.
China's parliament has ratified the Paris agreement on climate change, ahead of its hosting of next week's G20 meeting.
The Bureau of Meteorology forecast between 40 and 60 millimetres of rain from late Friday morning.
Suburb-dwellers don't need to keep hives to help maintain the urban honeybee population.
A largely unknown creature, the pangolin holds the undesirable title of being the most poached and illegally trafficked mammal in the world. Scientists believe more than 1 million have been killed in the past decade.
The future of oyster farming looks bleak, but you can help change it.
Life in the Arctic region may sound inhospitable, but to Sheila Watt-Cloutier the cold is the source of comfort, culture and her history.
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.
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.
One of the critically endangered woodlands in Sydney's south faces the chop within days to provide temporary parking space for WestConnex machinery, opponents say.
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.
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.
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