The government has quietly axed environmental conditions aimed at protecting turtle species set to be affected by Adani's proposed $3 billion coal terminal expansion.

CSIRO's re-embracing of climate change research will be stressed on Monday when the national science agency announces a new centre partly funded by Chinese interests.

To consumers across the country who believed they were buying solar panels for their homes, he is the man who stole their savings.

Climate scientists warn Sydney will have tropical waters by 2040-60.

Queensland holds door open to providing 'royalties holiday' for Indian mining conglomerate.

Businesses and households to be offered cash to use less electricity at peak times next summer.

Consumers are set to pay higher energy prices but it has little to do with looming "gas shortages", researchers say.

Hazelwood's demise has triggered a surge in gas - and a prediction electricity prices will rise by up to 40%.

Thousands have abandoned their homes in northern NSW and hundreds of people rescued from floodwaters as the remnants of ex-tropical cyclone Debbie bore down, dumping a staggering amount of rain on the region.

Human societies and a multitude of species are going to be tested by climate change in ways that are barely understood, a new study finds.

If you're wondering why battery storage is still on the fringe of the energy debate in Australia, and also perhaps why power prices are high, just ask Tony Marxsen, the head of the country's energy markets.

The world is 33 months into its biggest recorded coral bleaching event with little sign of it ending, raising the prospect that coral mortality on the Great Barrier Reef will increase "significantly" from the quarter already lost in the past year, scientists say.

What if the biggest government announcement in electricity generation in years was both a great breakthrough and a distraction?

Two resignations from the board of the Climate Change Authority come with criticism of the Turnbull government.

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Australia's original climate change-focused think-tank and lobby group will shut after it failed to replace the multi-million-dollar bequest it relied on.

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.