A company offers people the chance to be active players in the energy market.

* Pangolins regarded as most poached animal on the planet

In all 181 families have now been isolated after the biggest floods in decades hit the central-west of NSW, with no road access, limited communications and dwindling supplies.

South Australia has a mammoth mop up ahead after a second day of storms lashed the state on Thursday.

Animal rights activists have called for an investigation after one of two lions which escaped from their cage at the Leipzig Zoo in Germany was shot dead.

The BOM issued a warning of peak gusts of more than 90 km/h, but they only reached 43km/h.

Adelaide was bracing for some of the strongest winds the city had ever seen on Thursday night.

A new study has revealed human-caused climate change is already harming parts of Australia.

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Several parts of Victoria remain on flood watch and a watch-and-act warning has been issued for landslides on the Great Ocean Road after wild weather skirted the state on its way from South Australia to New South Wales.

The ACT government has dismissed attacks on the renewable energy sector after the South Australia power outage.

More polar bears are being shot dead on Norway's remote Arctic islands, where dangerous encounters with humans are getting more frequent as visitors increase and global warming melts the sea ice on which the creatures roam.

NSW is next in line for the mega-storm that brought havoc across South Australia and plunged the entire state into black-out.

The lights were hardly out in South Australia before politicians and lobby groups were staking out their ground in the argument over climate change and renewable energy.

The entire state of South Australia is currently without power.

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The potential benefits of a double-barrelled penis - for a fly anyway.

Guy Innes was sitting on his porch enjoying a coffee when he noticed a koala strolling across a beach to access the water at Salamander Bay.

Enjoy the sunshine while you can, Canberra, a serious storm system is sweeping toward us.

The touch of rescuers is usually a huge relief for someone in danger, but it wasn't the case for one Cowra motorist who tried to drive through flood water last week.

The future of air safety could lie in the example of Drongo, Nemo and Titan.

Almost 4000 South Australian properties are without power as an extreme weather system moves across the state.

Canberrans have spared the worst of the wet weather that's wreaking havoc in NSW's central west, but they're still facing record-breaking rainfall.

The World Health Organisation says 92 per cent of the world's population live in places where the pollution levels exceeded WHO limits.

Current greenhouse gas levels could commit the planet to as much as 7 degrees of warming in coming millennia.

* Ivory poaching seen as main cause of decline

Floodwaters have peaked in the central western NSW town of Forbes overnight, but residents have been warned that more wet weather forecast for later in the week could cause river levels to rise again.

While floodwaters continue to rise in Forbes, Sydney is set for a dry few days before rain returns on Thursday.

A spell of rain on Sunday is expected to clear for a breezy, fine spring day in the capital for Canberra's Family and Community Day.

Resources and construction slump brings search for alternatives.

At 5.30am on a Sunday morning exactly 100 years ago, Jessie, a 3600 kilogram elephant sauntered through Sydney's CBD.

Forbes residents have been ordered to evacuate by the State Emergency Service as the town braces for major flooding.