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Sea ice spread around Antarctica hits a record low
As parts of Australia set heatwave records and the government considered building new coal-fired power stations, the vast continent to the south last week quietly marked a milestone.
As parts of Australia set heatwave records and the government considered building new coal-fired power stations, the vast continent to the south last week quietly marked a milestone.
After years of failed promises, Victoria is on the cusp of getting its first large-scale solar power stations.
Less than one dollar in a thousand spent on health in Australia goes to one of the biggest threats facing the sector, a new paper finds.
The creation of a long-mooted national park on Melbourne's fringe could create up to 750 jobs by turning the area into an eco-tourism hub, an analysis has found.
Sydney has marked its hottest ever month, with extended warm spells setting records at all metropolitan sites.
Victoria and NSW have been warned they could follow South Australia in being hit by electricity blackouts in years ahead unless Canberra comes up with a bipartisan national plan to deal with energy and climate change.
Energy giant lodges its long-delayed application to develop the controversial Narrabri coal seam gas project.
Claims of a cover-up as a plant lost for two centuries turns up on a development site.
Coal mining in Sydney's water catchment could prove an early test for new Premier Gladys Berejiklian
Do big investments in solar energy point to a different future for the oil-rich nations of the Middle East?
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.
No matter what the US president does, the physics and chemical impacts of burning coal, oil and gas are uncontroversial.
Spiders are quite literally all around us. A recent entomological survey of North Carolina homes turned up spiders in 100 per cent of them, including 68 per cent of bathrooms and more than three-quarters of bedrooms.
Queenslanders are waking up to a huge clean up following Cyclone Debbie, which is still bringing heavy rain as it works its way through the state.
Latest on the category 4 storm as it heads for the north Queensland near Bowen.
A juvenile shark has been rescued and returned to the sea after it was found in ocean baths in Sydney's northern beaches.
The NSW coalition government is failing on most of its environmental policies, robbing a key climate fund to bankroll land-clearing and leaving marine regions unprotected, according to eight green groups.
Emergency services in Canberra received 24 calls for help on Monday night as a thunderstorm heading east faced its last moments.
It's the storm surge not the wind that poses the main risk for residents living in Debbie's path.
A study has shown that three-quarters of antiques dealers admit being aware of illegal trading, knowing colleagues or auctioneers who sell modern ivory by passing it off under the guise of still-legal pre-1947 artefacts.
She now tops 45 kilograms, meaning her days of napping on her human caretakers' laps are dwindling.
The Greens are pushing for a new public authority to take responsibility for Australia's beleaguered electricity system out of politicians' hands.
Clouds have fascinated and frightened shepherds and seafarers alike and now modern-day weather geeks have a new event to celebrate – the first updated international cloud atlas in six decades.
March has not just been great weather for ducks - but also for mushroom pickers.
Calls for an extraordinary government intervention to keep the ailing Hazelwood coal power plant open have been rejected by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who said its closure would not affect electricity security.
A leading national business group has called on Canberra and Victoria to consider an unprecedented "emergency intervention" to keep the Hazelwood coal power plant running.
Two resignations from the board of the Climate Change Authority come with criticism of the Turnbull government.
The Great Barrier Reef is dying on our watch, and that's almost all we're doing.
Hundreds of Sydney home owners will be out inspecting damage to their properties on Thursday with rain and even a possible storm hindering the clean-up.
Strong wind gusts and "sideways rain" have lashed Sydney and the Central Coast, leaving more than 33,000 homes without power.
A 25-year-old Thai sea turtle died from blood poisoning on Tuesday, never recovering from an operation to remove 915 coins from her stomach, thrown into her pool for good luck, veterinarians said.
The move may do little to protect them or help keep them clean.
Another soggy journey home awaits Sydneysiders on Tuesday evening with storm cells moving in from the north-west.
The wet weather seems to be encouraging nature of the slithering kind to hunt out the great - and dry - indoors.
Pressure on China's leaders to cut pollution from coal is likely to intensify - potentially hurting Australia's exports - with new research showing Beijing's air quality will get worse with climate change.
Sydney has sloshed through yet another wet weekend, with 222 millimetres of rain soaking the city over the past 19 days.
The critical reef tourism industry in Queensland is about to take a dive.
Rain will continue on Saturday in a miserable March that may break rainfall records.
Port Stephens' blue water wonderland isn't just popular with the tens of thousands of tourists who visit each summer.
What if the biggest government announcement in electricity generation in years was both a great breakthrough and a distraction?
Taronga Zoo is celebrating the arrival of an endangered pygmy hippo calf, the first born at the zoo in nearly seven years.
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