Desperate Pacific islands at risk of sinking beneath the sea say Australia is "stuck in the Dark Ages" by relying on fossil fuels, in response to alarming data showing this nation's energy emissions have hit record highs.
Problems from the rapid development of a $70 billion gas industry will dog its future rollout.
"We've broken an enormous number of records across NSW," says a Bureau of Meteorology climatologist.
Australia will fall dramatically short of its Paris carbon reduction targets signed under Tony Abbott, unless it vastly increases its renewable energy usage.
Australia had its hottest winter on record, with temperatures up by 2 degrees on average and it is related to worsening climate change, a leading scientific group says.
The record-breaking heat comes as a warm air mass, which drove temperatures in the state's inland regions over 40 degrees on Wednesday, heads towards the coast.
A new survey shows 21 per cent believe climate change is a hoax perpetrated by scientists, and more than a third think Earth has been visited by aliens.
A whale as well as a large number of white, bull and bronze whaler sharks were spotted near the bait ball.
The likely eruption of Bali's Mount Agung has "potential for major impacts" depending on the scale of the explosion, according to a member of a team at Australia's Bureau of Meteorology that is preparing to assess whatever ash cloud is thrown up by the volcano.
Sea ice around Antarctica has swung from a record large maximum area covered to a record low in just three years, in a shift that could have implications for the global climate.
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Sydneysiders are turning on the sprinklers to save their withering parks and gardens amid temperature spikes and the city's driest spell in more than a century.
A large excavator has started digging up an 18-tonne humpback whale buried at Port Macquarie's Nobbys Beach.
Beaches on the north coast of NSW have reopened despite an 18-tonne humpback whale carcass decomposing nearby.
There's liquid gold in those hills in the form of pumped storage potential – but not necessarily in the Snowy mountains.
Sydneysiders can soon breathe a sigh of relief as the weekend's heatwave will give way to milder spring days.
Barely one in five voters surveyed want to see the Liddell power station's life extended, a poll has found.
As much as 40 per cent of NSW is expected to set September heat records on Saturday as bushfire crews brace for a busy afternoon.
Canberra smashed a 52-year-old weather record on Saturday, getting an early taste of summer
As temperatures climb on another early-season total fire ban day for much of NSW, the latest fuel moisture maps show the region around Sydney is at least as dry as during big bushfires in 2013 - but three weeks earlier in the year.
Record temperatures are possible across much of NSW on Saturday, elevating bushfire risks to "severe" in much of NSW.
London: Plants may need to sleep at night, a new study on primitive jellyfish suggests.
Temperatures are forecast to soar into the 30s in Sydney, in what could be the city's driest September in 130 years.
Scientists worry we're experiencing a sixth mass extinction, but sea turtles may be an exception, a new study says.
Erosion and water quality projects could reduce sediment flowing onto the Great Barrier Reef by 70 per cent, making the reef more resilient to climate change.
If Matt Canavan visits Liddell power station next month, there's a good chance staff will show the corroded pipes and fatigued metal that serve as signs its use-by date of 2022 is closing in.
Pollution of wetlands adjacent to Adani's main coal export port in Queensland is proof the Indian-owned company can't be trusted to operate a much larger operation should the Galilee Basin ever be opened up to mines, environmental groups said.
As Sydney temperatures climb into the 30s, 'quite hot' conditions will put NSW records in play.
The 18-tonne humpback whale was interred at Nobbys Beach in Port Macquarie because it was too big to be moved.
Community debate has raged over the burial of a dead 12 metre, 18 tonne humpback whale on Nobbys Beach.
Record temperatures are possible across much of NSW on Saturday, elevating bushfire risks to "severe" in much of NSW.
London: Plants may need to sleep at night, a new study on primitive jellyfish suggests.
Temperatures are forecast to soar into the 30s in Sydney, in what could be the city's driest September in 130 years.
Scientists worry we're experiencing a sixth mass extinction, but sea turtles may be an exception, a new study says.
Erosion and water quality projects could reduce sediment flowing onto the Great Barrier Reef by 70 per cent, making the reef more resilient to climate change.
Pollution of wetlands adjacent to Adani's main coal export port in Queensland is proof the Indian-owned company can't be trusted to operate a much larger operation should the Galilee Basin ever be opened up to mines, environmental groups said.
As Sydney temperatures climb into the 30s, 'quite hot' conditions will put NSW records in play.
The 18-tonne humpback whale was interred at Nobbys Beach in Port Macquarie because it was too big to be moved.
Community debate has raged over the burial of a dead 12 metre, 18 tonne humpback whale on Nobbys Beach.
If Matt Canavan visits Liddell power station next month, there's a good chance staff will show the corroded pipes and fatigued metal that serve as signs its use-by date of 2022 is closing in.
Hurricane Maria has strengthened to a category 5 storm and is now 25 kilometres east-south-east of the Caribbean island of Dominica.