Opponents of the move have called the plan "reckless" and an "offence to the rule of law".

Sydney residents had to dust off their umbrellas on Monday morning as the city experienced its first decent rainfall in two months.

Hurricane Nate made landfall near the mouth of the Mississippi River as a Category 1 storm with winds of 85 miles per hour on Saturday evening, threatening parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama with torrential rain and potential flooding.

The last rain that fell on the city was 0.2m on September 14 and before that 1.2m in late August.

More than one thousand protestors came together at Bondi Beach on Saturday morning to protest the construction of the Adani coal mine in Central Queensland.

A stoush is looming over the future of Murray Valley National Park with the Nationals Party candidate for the region's seat vowing to relegate the park's status just seven years after its creation.

The competition watchdog will demand ESSO and BHP Billiton explain in more detail why gas supplies from its secretive Bass Strait joint venture will decline sharply next year.

Tropical Storm Nate has killed at least 22 people in Central America as it pummeled the region with heavy rain while heading toward Mexico's Caribbean resorts.

Staff at Fernwood Belconnen got an unexpected visitor when a male wallaroo hopped into the gym causing an evacuation.

Could this be the answer to taming magpies?

Queensland is destroying tree cover at the rate of 10 square kilometres a day, harming biodiversity while stoking doubts about federal data suggesting emissions from land clearing are in decline.

Solar power grew faster than any other source of fuel for the first time in 2016, the International Energy Agency said in a report suggesting the technology will dominate renewables in the years ahead.

Tree-clearing rates in Queensland have increased by one-third and are now at their highest level in more than a decade.

Last month's early-season bursts of heat sent temperatures of some parts of eastern Australia a full 16 degrees above average, new analysis by the Bureau of Meteorology shows.

Climate change could make a meal of baby crocs, with warmer water slashing the amount of time they can hide underwater to avoid being eaten.

Unprecedented severe heat is becoming more common in our cities, but the mercury could top 50-degrees on our worst days in the future.

The pink-tailed worm-lizard is classified as a vulnerable species.

The Greens called for a legislated national target of 20 gigawatts of energy storage technology such as large battery installations.

India's former environment minister says he's appalled by Australia's decision to approve Adani's massive new coal mine in Queensland, and the company's record in environmental management in India "leaves a lot to be desired".

It was a moment made for a Hallmark movie.

A new report reveals which swimming spots are cleanest and which ones you should avoid.

A group of hikers have stumbled across a rare sight of three eastern brown snakes romping in the grass at Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve in Canberra.

Jairam Ramesh says the mine in Queensland would threaten the survival of the Great Barrier Reef.

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.

The government wants to remove provisions that protect critical endangered species.

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.