Expert panel calls for dramatic re-think on Reef
Expert panel calls for urgent action on threats to the natural wonder.
Environment
Turnbull government cuts Adani's Abbot Point turtle controls
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.
China to partly fund new CSIRO climate research centre
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.
The man in the shadows who cost scores of Australians their solar dream
To consumers across the country who believed they were buying solar panels for their homes, he is the man who stole their savings.
What's going wrong in our deep blue and warming sea
Climate scientists warn Sydney will have tropical waters by 2040-60.
Queensland considers $320m royalty relief for Adani mine
Queensland holds door open to providing 'royalties holiday' for Indian mining conglomerate.
Businesses, households paid to use less power next summer
Businesses and households to be offered cash to use less electricity at peak times next summer.
The truth about your skyrocketing gas bill
Consumers are set to pay higher energy prices but it has little to do with looming "gas shortages", researchers say.
Gas surge hits power prices
Hazelwood's demise has triggered a surge in gas - and a prediction electricity prices will rise by up to 40%.
Sirens sound in Lismore as levee cracks and city floods
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.
Climate change pushing humans, other species to the brink: new study
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.
The real reason power companies block battery systems
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.
Fears that 'significant' coral mortality is still to come
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.
Energetic political row - but will there be light as well as heat?
What if the biggest government announcement in electricity generation in years was both a great breakthrough and a distraction?
Twin blasts for Turnbull government over energy and climate policies
Two resignations from the board of the Climate Change Authority come with criticism of the Turnbull government.
Climate Institute to shut due to lack of philanthropic support
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.
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.
Victoria to get its first large-scale solar plants
After years of failed promises, Victoria is on the cusp of getting its first large-scale solar power stations.
The health threat that is 'falling through the cracks'
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.
National park could be jobs boon, say consultants
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 marks hottest month ever with every site setting records
Sydney has marked its hottest ever month, with extended warm spells setting records at all metropolitan sites.
Plan to remove Yellowstone grizzlies from endangered list denounced
The grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park has been protected for more than four decades. But no more.
Meet Martha, officially the ugliest dog in the world
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.
'All we can do is watch': The pleasure and peril of soaring humpback numbers
This weekend could be the perfect time to go whale watching.
Gas only a 'short bridge' to a low-carbon future, climate group finds
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.
Luke Foley's solar plan eclipsed by NSW government
The NSW opposition leader Luke Foley has been caught out promising a policy that the Berejiklian government has already begun.
Days are lengthening - and not just because of the solstice
Winter's depths have been plumbed according to the clocks but the worst of the season's chill is almost certainly ahead.
As doom approaches, Australia closes its eyes
Our political and business leaders have given up. The rest of must act instead.
If Finkel review isn't dead it's looking very sick
Like the Pythonesque parrot, Alan Finkel's independent review into the future security of Australia's electricity market is merely sleeping.
Every eight hours, a rhinoceros is slaughtered
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.
Coal rebound tipped to bolster coffers for years
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.
'Remarkable' high pressure shielding much of Australia from winter's wrath
Farmers and ski resort operators are watching synoptic charts with growing anxiety.
Aussie tourists duped into eating dog meat in Bali
Warning: distressing images
Tropics in trouble as climate change turns deadly: study
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.
Feline hyperthyroidism: Cats go radioactive to survive mystery disease
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 perfect person to have in this place at this time'
The chief scientist is struggling to solve one of Australia's most intractable problems.
Why solar power will kill coal faster than you think
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.
Deep sea trawl finds never seen fish, shortarse feelerfish
Scientists have plucked some unknown species from depths of the abyss off Australia's east coast.
Emissions on wrong trajectory to hit Paris goal: report
Australia's greenhouse gas emissions could return to 2005 levels by 2030 without new government action, contrary to the scenario modelled by the Finkel review, according to a new report by respected analyst Hugh Saddler.
How Finkel would keep the lights on, and why Abbott's not so keen
Here's a guide to the Finkel Review, in case, like Tony Abbott, you haven't read it.
Sydney has already reached its June rainfall average, and there's more to come
One NSW town has copped nearly 300 millimetres in three days - and it's not over yet.
The Canberran defending coral reefs from dynamite fishing
Reef rehabilitation was not an obvious endeavour for a young woman growing up in inland Canberra.
'Sitting ducks': Santos' CSG gaps highlighted by farmers, agencies
Santos' main environment statement on its proposed $3 billion coal seam gas project in north-west NSW lacks key data on groundwater impacts, salt disposal, air pollution and biodiversity, government agencies have found.
Thick fog shrouds Sydney, forcing flight cancellations
Drivers are urged to be careful with a foggy start to the Queen's Birthday public holiday.
Two women and dog rescued from NSW floodwaters
The rescue was the first as a result of this week's heavy rainfall, SES spokesman Phil Campbell says.
Man knocked off bodyboard by four-metre great white shark in Bunbury
The shark reportedly circled the man's bodyboard for ten to fifteen minutes following the incident.
Chimpanzees are not 'persons', US appeals court says
Chimpanzees are not legal persons who have a right to be free, a New York state appeals court said in a ruling that denied a request to move two captive apes to a sanctuary.
Amazing drone footage captures never before seen areas of Antarctica
Melbourne-based adventurer Liam Suckling has scaled Antarctica's tallest mountain and has captured astonishing drone footage of some never-before-seen areas of the icy continent.
Beached whale on NSW coast euthanised
A juvenile humpback whale that has been beached on the NSW Mid North Coast for more than a day has been euthanised after its condition worsened.
Battle over high-country brumbies about to heat up
A long-simmering dispute over brumbies in the Kosciusko National Park is set to heat up with the Berejiklian government ready to ditch a plan to reintroduce shooting to control feral numbers, a local advocate of the animals says.
No end in sight for rain as key Sydney road closed
Sydneysiders will need to keep the brolly on hand for at least a week as the rain settles in, bringing the city's wettest stretch in months.