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The government agency responsible for the Great Barrier Reef says urgent action is needed to save the world heritage site after yet-to-be-published surveys found the record coral bleaching damage earlier this year was even worse than initially thought.
Hazelwood power station will operate until the end of March next year and then shut down quickly after that, workers have been told.
The truth about Hazelwood is that it was never meant to last this long.
What you need to know about the impending decision to shut Victoria's dirtiest power station.
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.
Fresh surveys of the Great Barrier Reef six months on from a mass coral bleaching 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, scientists say.
Australia is facing renewed international pressure to explain what it is doing to tackle climate change, with a United Nations review finding its emissions continue to soar and several countries calling for clarity about what it will do after 2020.
If you have just had the biggest failure in the history of Australia's electricity market it makes sense to bring those responsible for it together to talk.
Victorian Energy Minister Lily D'Ambrosio has accused her federal counterpart Josh Frydenberg of pulling a political stunt by calling an emergency meeting of ministers in the wake of the South Australian blackout.
The extreme weather conditions and 80,000 lightning strikes that thrust South Australia into darkness last week was extraordinary enough; the disingenuous debate it sparked about Australia's changing energy system has been something else again.
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