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Expert panel calls for dramatic re-think on Reef
Expert panel calls for urgent action on threats to the natural wonder.
Expert panel calls for urgent action on threats to the natural wonder.
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.
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.
A review commissioned by the NSW Government has called for the public to be given more information about the risks posed by highly polluted land.
Antarctica's native species are facing invasion as climate change dramatically expands the continent's ice-free zones, a new study warns.
The slate and red palm cockatoo with its striking crest looks rock star, but has musical talent too.
Winter has finally arrived with Sydney residents expected to shiver through the coldest period of the year.
Matty Smith positioned himself beside a football-sized orange octopus but the creature was having none of it.
Canberra region egg producers have some of the most spacious free range farms.
Global sea level rise has increased from 2.2mm each year in 1993, to 3.3mm each year in 2014.
Donald Trump will tout surging US exports of oil and natural gas during a week of events aimed at highlighting the country's growing energy dominance.
A new report into the value of the at-threat Great Barrier Reef has been revealed the 2300 kilometre reef is too big to fail.
While many Australians would consider the reef priceless, Deloitte believes you can put a number on it.
Mayor pushing for council to take the government to court over its failure to clean up a toxic site that risks leaching chemicals into Sydney Harbour.
To strike the latest blow in his Twitter war with US President Donald Trump, Schwarzenegger has recruited French President Emmanuel Macron.
In a competition annually dominated by the old, the tiny, and the hairless, the three-year-old Neapolitan Mastiff used her lollygagging youth to win the 29th annual World's Ugliest Dog Contest.
The grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park has been protected for more than four decades. But no more.
This weekend could be the perfect time to go whale watching.
Hopes gas will play the role of a so-called transition fuel towards a low-carbon future are dimming as costs of renewable energy dive and its emissions edge over coal is increasingly questioned, a new report by the Climate Action Tracker argues.
The NSW opposition leader Luke Foley has been caught out promising a policy that the Berejiklian government has already begun.
Winter's depths have been plumbed according to the clocks but the worst of the season's chill is almost certainly ahead.
Our political and business leaders have given up. The rest of must act instead.
Like the Pythonesque parrot, Alan Finkel's independent review into the future security of Australia's electricity market is merely sleeping.
Three a day – that is the brutal average for rhino deaths in South Africa, and 2017 will be a crucial year for the remaining rhinos in the wild in the African nation.
NSW's addiction to coal royalties shows no sign of easing after a surge in coal prices lifted expected royalties for the state by $839 million over four years.
Farmers and ski resort operators are watching synoptic charts with growing anxiety.
Warning: distressing images
Rising temperatures and humidity will make the world's tropics increasingly unliveable by pushing more people to the thresholds of their physical tolerance and beyond, a new international study finds.
Australian scientists discover it takes a few years for children to out-think our hairier cousins.
Kelli Grant's cat Max had always loved to eat but that was nothing compared to how ravenous he became a few years ago, howling and pestering her for food.
The chief scientist is struggling to solve one of Australia's most intractable problems.
Solar power, once so costly it only made economic sense in spaceships, is becoming cheap enough that it will push coal and even natural-gas plants out of business faster than previously forecast.
Scientists have plucked some unknown species from depths of the abyss off Australia's east coast.