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Australia's inland plants are among those most likely to be affected by rising temperatures, challenging the concept that the country's weather extremes would make them less susceptible to global warming, a new study has found.

Stay inside tonight, or bring your gumboots if you are planning to venture outdoors - the rains are coming again.

Canberrans should keep raincoats handy for the rest of the week.

Canberra's Anke Maria Hoefer is known for talking to frogs but she believes it is learning how to listen to them that will save the species.

Spring has sprung. And with it comes the peak pollen season and a warning that Canberrans who own rooftop solar panels need to stay vigilant about cleaning them, an ANU expert says.

Embattled CSIRO boss has been given another four year to right the science agency.

Bali looks lush and tropical and has more than 1000 years of rice production...but researchers estimate the island will run dry by 2020.

Researchers find about 3.3 million square kilometres have been lost.

More than health care, race or the economy, the US president believes his efforts to slow global warming will be the most consequential legacy of his presidency.

Clearing land for the WestConnex motorway has begun - on National Threatened Species Day.

We are so used to bad news about climate change it is a little hard to process this.

Sydney's run of blissful early spring weather has a couple of days to run yet.

Reports set up by Abbott government threaten to expose vulnerable areas to commercial fishing, environmental group warns.

The most destructive categories of tropical storms to strike the heavily populated regions of east Asia are becoming more intense.

Council joins Weatherzone to develop new app.

Illegal hunting in Democratic Republic of Congo has wiped out 70 per cent of Eastern gorillas in the past two decades and pushed the world's biggest primate close to extinction, a Red List of endangered species shows.

There's everything to like about the weather in Sydney this week - except for one irritating aspect.

Even Coalition supporters are in favour of using the courts to challenge mining projects, a survey finds.

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.

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