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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.
NSW has the most large-scale renewable energy projects under way in Australia, and lifted its share of clean energy markedly in the past year.
New techniques to identify and reduce the sources of sediment blanketing parts of the Great Barrier Reef have landed Andrew Brooks and his team at Griffith University's this year's Eureka Prize for environmental research.
The spectacular Cliefden Caves in central west NSW have been granted state heritage listing, almost certainly sparing them from a dam proposed for the region.
With no Noah's Ark to ferry these animals away, they're showing up in some unusual spots.
A weak Clean Energy Target (CET) would shift the emissions reduction burden away from the electricity sector, undermine investor certainty, and potentially leave power stations pumping out pollution into the next century, according to analysis by RepuTex.
Sydney's main weather radar at Terrey Hills will be offline for more than a month for an upgrade ahead of this year's thunderstorm season.
As the oil and gas capital of the world, Houston should have known storms like Harvey were coming.
Sydney is likely to post one of its coldest weeks of winter just as the season makes way for a burst of spring.
Claims that Shenhua's restricted coal mining will avoid affecting the aquifers of the rich farmlands of the Liverpool Plains are "false and ignorant", former state and private agronomists have said in a letter to Premier Gladys Berejiklian.
Australia produced enough renewable energy to power more than 70 per cent of households last financial year, new data shows, but advocates warn the booming industry will flounder unless the Turnbull government commits to a clean energy target.
The billionaires have joined other business giants backing a start-up that makes meat from self-producing animal cells.
The biggest overhaul of native vegetation laws in NSW in a generation is sending mixed signals.
At least eight people were killed and many are still missing after one of the strongest typhoons on record barrelled into southern Chinese territory of Macau.
Although the gift may have seemed like an appropriate gesture, it has been criticised by animal rights campaigners.
The unusually warm and dry winter across much of NSW has prompted the Rural Fire Service to bring forward the official start to the fire season for nine local government areas including the Blue Mountains.
The paucity of independent monitoring of waste water from coal mines in NSW is leaving communities exposed to decades of pollution, long after mining operations have ceased, Ian Wright, a leading water ecologist, said.
Weather agencies including Australia's must step up cooperation to close a "widening gap in capacity" with developing nations, with the urgency of action increasing as the planet heats up, David Grimes, president of the World Meteorological Organization, says.
Coal mining in Sydney's catchment is having a "cumulative and possibly accelerated" impact on water flows but its full effect is unknown because of a lack of data and monitoring.
There's more to protecting yourself than wearing an ice cream bucket on your head.
Damaging winds are forecast to batter Sydney well into the weekend, keeping emergency crews busy clearing downed trees and powerlines, and restoring electricity to affected homes and businesses.
Cyclonic-strength wind gusts have hammered Sydney and most of eastern NSW, disrupting air travel and stranding trains on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Cyclonic-strength wind gusts have hammered Sydney and most of eastern NSW, disrupting air travel and stranding trains on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Glen Turner's family says in a letter to the government new native vegetation codes will diminish "the value of his life".
The controversial waste management magnate behind plans to build a massive "energy from waste incinerator" near homes in western Sydney defended his environmental track record before a fiery parliamentary inquiry into the safety of the proposal on Thursday.
Most of Australia can expect a hotter-than-average spring driven in part by unusually warm waters off the east coast, increasing the chances of an early and active fire season in the south-east.
NSW planning rules that require greenhouse gas emissions be taken into account when approving major projects will be tested in court in a challenge to a coal mine extension.
There are believed to be only around 100 white moose in Sweden.
It was another hot August night for Sydney residents with the temperature warmer at midnight than it was at midday on Tuesday.
A second day of heavy pollution levels over Sydney caused by controlled fires in the Blue Mountains has prompted calls for earlier warnings and a review of the costs and benefits of hazard-reduction burns.
The world's largest nesting spot for endangered green sea turtles will be made over to stop baby turtles drowning and adults dying from heat exhaustion.