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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.
Troops mobilised after heavy rains prompt floods on the South Island.
With Sydney drenched in winter sun, a trip to the beach might be tempting.
You'd be forgiven for thinking you'd woken up to winter in the wrong hemisphere on Saturday morning.
Weather patterns delivering an exceptionally dry winter across south-eastern Australia show little sign of breaking up.
The Turnbull government has released draft management plans for the nation's marine parks that amount to an "unprecedented rollback" of protections, a coalition of 25 environmental groups say.
The world's first test-tube rhinos could be born from animals at a British safari park.
Don't laugh. There are important lessons in the unlikely story of how the world came to mitigate the effects of a ticking time bomb under modern civilisation.
The nation's largest power generator has urged the federal government to exclude coal from its planned clean energy target, saying there is no appetite among private investors to fund new coal-fired power plants.
Ski fields still packed after school holidays, with 40 centimetres recorded on the slopes.
Officials said Xanda, who was 6 and had several cubs, was shot several days ago by a trophy hunter.
Last week's huge, and still smouldering garbage fire in Melbourne is symptomatic of a growing global problem.
Budget cuts to key US climate programs proposed by President Trump are a major worry for the international research community.
It's not just rising seas and bigger storm surges you need to be worried about.
The chilly conditions which hit Sydney over the past few days are set to change with warmer weather on the way.
Momentum in Australia's renewable energy industry remains fragile as uncertainty clouds post-2020 prospects, the US energy giant says.
The Turnbull government has named investment banker and former ABC director Steven Skala as the new chair of its $10 billion green investment agency in a move welcomed by the renewable energy industry.
The shy joey has emerged from its mother's pouch at a nature refuge in south-west Queensland.
Investments by the government's $10 billion clean energy fund are growing at an "almost exponential" rate but growth could shudder to a halt if the industry's post-2020 policy is not settled, according to the agency's new head.
Geoscience Australia said those who felt the quake noted a "rolling sensation and small vibrations".
Subsidies for new coal mines in Queensland's Galilee Basin will have "devastating consequences" for NSW coal industry.
When fisherman Patrick Melograna felt a tug on his line near Gladesville Bridge, he knew he was onto something big.
Luke Hunter, president and chief conservation officer of the global wild cat organisation Panthera, received an email last week from one of his group's partners in Tanzania. When he opened the attached photos, Hunter said, "My jaw just dropped."
There were fears Sydney would experience its coldest day in two years on Sunday morning, but thanks to a change in air temperatures, the city will enjoy a slightly below average day.
Supermarket giants Woolworths and Coles have announced that its stores across Australia will stop giving out single-use plastic bags over the next 12 months.
The avalanche of lightweight plastic bags pouring into landfill and the environment is about to come to an end. Woolworths and Coles have announced a ban from mid-2018. Importantly this should also tell Australia's environment ministers who meet on July 28 that the time has come to pass legislation that will cover all stores.
Four east coast states will go it alone in drawing up plans for a clean energy target.
It was meant to be a harmless selfie, designed to highlight the plight of the endangered crested black macaque.
The Turnbull government has warned the states their threat to "go it alone" on a clean energy target will only create chaos and inefficiency.
US President Donald Trump is holding the door open to a reversal of his decision to pull his country out of the Paris climate accord.
Incredible video has emerged of an elephant being rescued by the Sri Lanka Navy, 16 kilometres off the Sri Lankan coast.
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