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Early skirmishes point to a war over renewables lasting well into 2017
A political divide is forming over renewable energy's future in Australia.
A political divide is forming over renewable energy's future in Australia.
National demand for solar is up slightly, but NSW is going backwards
Energy giant AGL has been fined $124,000 in the NSW Land and Environment Court for failing to disclose political donations when making planning applications in the state.
A spill of heavy fuel oil in Sydney Harbour raises fresh concerns from local residents about the safety of Australia's oldest storage depot.
Plans by the Baird government to overhaul the state's mining approval process have drawn the ire of anti-coal groups and wary support from the industry.
Australia posted its fourth-hottest year in 2016, driven by record sea-surface temperatures around the nation, in a period marked by frequent extreme events, the Bureau of Meteorology said.
Have a spate of bites and sightings up and down the NSW coast raised the odds that an attack awaits beachgoers this summer? Peter Hannam investigates.
An analysis of more than a decade of Australian bites and stings has found that the bee poses the biggest public health threat.
Climate change will result in higher humidity and more severe rainstorms, according to new Australian research.
Questions about sharks in Victoria that you probably have wondered about at some point, but never found the answers to.
Head of international energy body says policies are important, but the economic facts "are stubborn".
After aĀ reprieve from extreme heat on Sunday,Ā Sydney is in for one hot night on Tuesday.
ActewAGL and SES crews were on Sunday still cleaning up damage from Friday's freak windstorm.
It dropped the temperature nine degrees in nine minutesĀ and now a major clean-up is underway in the capital after Friday's freak windstorm.
You're not wrong: Sydney has just tossed and turned through a night of "quite exceptional" heat.
As NSW residentsĀ yet again brace themselvesĀ for scorchingĀ heat withĀ the mercuryĀ set to rise above 40c, authorities have issued a total fire ban across most of the state.
After a warm night, Melbourne woke up to light rain on Friday, a little taster of the heavier falls expected later on.
A woman in Switzerland has been refused citizenship, and therefore a passport, because her "annoying" vegan campaigning has rubbed her neighbours up the wrong way.
Power cuts, sizzled tennis players and runaway grassfires featured in another scorching summer's day in and around Sydney, with only a limited respite before the heat returns.
Sydneysiders are in for a roasting as high temperatures combine with rising humidity to make for an exceptionally uncomfortable day.
It was a tough call as to who had the more enviable job. The answer depended which end of a large and potentially dangerous predator you would rather be working on: the head (read canine teeth) or the tail (read anal gland).
A spectacular cloud formation captured during a flight over the Great Australian Bight has delighted weather enthusiasts and enraged conspiracy theorists.
Health authorities have warned Sydneysiders to be on alert as the baking sun sends temperatures and ozone levels soaring and triggers a total fire ban.
One hundred and thirty-seven years ago, well before the Calaveras North Grove was purchased by the California State Park System and renamed the Calaveras Big Trees State Park, the land's owners carved an enormous hole in the base of one of its sequoia trees. On Sunday, that tree fell.
NSW Health has issued an air pollution alert as Sydney prepares to swelter through another summer day, warning residents that an increased level of ozone in the atmosphere is likely to affect residents with respiratory problems.
Canberrans who have stepped outside andĀ felt particularly sweaty these past four days can blame the mercury for hitting 30 degrees or higher since Friday. And they may not get some relief for at least another week.
Sydneysiders face an extended period of hot weather with warm nights likely to give only limited relief from daytime heat peaks.
In the United States in November, in a single 48-hour period, two hugely significant things happened. One of them received worldwide attention but the other, somewhat improbably, might yet turn out to be more important.
Growing up in Pakistan, my favourite show was Flipper. Living in a city a thousand kilometres from the nearest ocean, it was the most I knew about our beautiful dolphin friends.
The first band of what forecasters predict will be the region's most powerful storm in a decade moved into Northern California on Saturday evening, prompting official warnings of widespread flooding and epic snowfall in mountain areas.
A stubborn heatwave is settling in across the state with little relief in sight for days.
SeaWorld San Diego is ending its long-running killer whale show after years of outcry and falling attendance prompted it to renounce theatrical orca displays.
Melbourne Renegades defend the decision to hang two giant JumboTron screens above the arena for Saturday night's Big Bash League derby.
An enormous rift in one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves grew dramatically over the past month, and a massive chunk could break away as soon as later this summer, British scientists reported this week.
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