Australians overwhelmingly want governments to favour renewable energy - even if it costs more, Lowy Institute poll finds.

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Sometimes, the lost desert wanderer does stumble into an oasis, replete with the proverbial date palms and life-saving waters.

President Donald Trump's aide have refused to confirm whether he believes in climate change.

The US President has made the wrong call for the wrong reasons.

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Two high-profile executives quit Donald Trump's advisory council and Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein took to Twitter for the first time ever to express disapproval at his decision to ditch the Paris climate accord.

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Nationalists in the Trump administration are right. The decision to withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord was correct.

World leaders have pledged to keep up the fight against global warming as Trump announced he was pulling out of the Paris climate accord.

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Some of the key point you need to know about Paris and a withdrawal of the US by President Trump

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That Donald Trump's decision was widely anticipated does little to moderate its impact.

US President Donald Trump has announced that the US will exit the Paris climate accord and begin investigating a new agreement with fairer terms for the US.

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The climate genie, already out of the bottle, just got that bit harder to put back in.

World's corals, including the Great Barrier Reef, can be saved but only with concerted efforts.

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Getting the green bank to invest in carbon reduction measures is not entirely mad.

Australia's clean energy sector is heading for a record year for new solar and wind farms, generating thousands of jobs in regional areas and bringing the 2020 Renewable Energy Target within range.

The giant ice sheets of Antarctica are melting faster than previously estimated, placing low-lying areas of Sydney and similar exposed cities at risk by the turn of the century.

The Berejiklian government will issue warnings of potential threats to electricity supplies from this summer after its review of February's heatwave found the power sector to be vulnerable.

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

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A former top oil, gas and coal executive says the government and opposition are failing the world.

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

Scientists assess the likelihood of a repeat of the "angry summer" of 2012-13.

Mine rehabilitation plans for the proposed giant Carmichael coal mine in Queensland fall far short of best practice and will expose the environment and taxpayers to huge risks, according to anti-mine group Lock the Gate.

Pacific Ocean will switch from serving as a brake to an accelerator, a new paper warns.

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With storage prices dropping about 20 per cent a year, the attraction for cutting reliance on grid power is brightening fast.

Westpac's decision to effectively rule out lending to the proposed giant Adani coal mine in Queensland has drawn praise from environmentalists but derision from the government and industry.

A cold snap is likely to give way to a milder few months ahead.

Maybe the hardened convicts who carved the 19th-century gravestones dotting this tiny Tasmanian island were barely literate, or perhaps one of them just had a wicked sense of humour. Schoolmaster Benjamin Horne went to his repose in 1843 with this sentence chiselled above his head: "Sincerely regretted by all who knew him."

Rising energy prices drive a huge surge of consumers and businesses installing solar panels.

Scientists in Australia are examining the possibility of enlarging and brightening the clouds around the Great Barrier Reef to save it from bleaching.

A team of scientists have documented what they're describing as the first case of large-scale river reorganization as a result of human-caused climate change.