More than 50 countries including Australia, the US, China, Russia and members of the European Union have agreed to make the Ross Sea the world's first large-scale marine park in international waters.
Australia is already experiencing an increase in extreme conditions - and it's projected to get worse.
Fresh surveys of the Great Barrier Reef have found large-scale damage north of Cairns, where a growing coral death rate due to heat stress is being exacerbated by disease and predators.
Cutting carbon emissions could generate more than 1 million extra jobs by 2040.
Carbon dioxide concentrations are rising at a record rate,
NSW dominates the list of locations with the most shark bites in Australia.
The CSIRO needs to ensure its research into the coal seam gas remains independent of industry.
Jacquelyn has spent most of her life avoiding what she fears.
The lifespan of the common swift means that the accumulated flight distance of a bird is equal to seven journeys to the moon and back.
Extremely rare brush-tailed rock wallabies are being given second chance at Tidbinbilla.
'The currawong would not give up – it kept flying around the goanna and hassling it.'
In a shopping mall in southern China, a polar bear named Pizza paces past murals of icebergs in his glass enclosure.
The 24-year-old star of The Fault in Our Stars and the Divergent series could face jail over her part in a protest against a gas pipeline.
Waves of up to eight metres were recorded off the Sydney coast overnight, as beachgoers face another day of huge waves and swell pummelling the NSW coastline.
A man has checked himself in to hospital in Byron after another shark bite off the coast of far northern NSW.
The baby Rosenberg's monitors will grow to 1.5 metres in length.
Residents urged to prepare as a new storm season begins
"There's definitely more this year than last year."
The time between dusk and dawn is when Australia's favourite marsupial comes out to play. But sadly, for some kangaroos, this venture into the open can lead to death.
The days are longer and lighter. And while the temperatures haven't been typically spring-like, the annual Cambrian-like explosion of backyard bugs is on. So who is your friend and who is your foe? The answers might come as a surprise.
Sydney is in for a wet and windy weekend, with temperatures expected to drop and gale force winds in some places on the NSW coast.
After years of toxic haze from fires in Borneo and Sumatra affecting people across South-east Asia, an Australian firefighter is pioneering a new approach.
Vulnerable wildlife could be leased to landowners under conservation proposal.
One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts is yet to be convinced that climate change is real and is caused by humans.
The strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year has killed at least eight people with more than 90,000 evacuated.
The NSW Rural Fire Service said it was taking advantage of favourable weather conditions to carry out a number of hazard-reduction burns around Sydney.
Coogee and Malabar are among Sydney beaches to warrant a "poor" rating for water quality.
Without retiring coal-burning power plants that pollute the equivalent of 30 per cent of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions, it will be impossible for Australia to meet our commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement.
Outgoing green finance chief Oliver Yates has fired several parting shots at the Turnbull government.
A record 71,142 deer were shot and killed in Victoria last year, a jump of more than 14 per cent on the previous year.
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