Households will be slightly better off under the reinvented energy and emissions policy.

• COMMENT

What a transformation. From leather jacket Malcolm warning of fig leaf Coalition policies that will do nothing for carbon reduction, to what.... Old King Coal, Captain Reliable, Chief Power Ranger?

• ANALYSIS

The Turnbull government likes to call it an energy "trilemma" – how to meet the triple challenge of an affordable and reliable electricity system that also meets Australia's international obligations to cut emissions.

Sydney may get its wettest day in more than four months later this week, bringing brief respite to the city's parched parks and gardens.

Activists took aim at the bank's refusal to rule out future investment in new coal projects.

Tony Abbott warned that any energy package agreed to in cabinet must pass a party room wary of anything approaching a clean energy target.

As portrayed in novels, the California of the future is barely habitable. Fiction? Perhaps less so after last week.

A mysterious and rare hole the size of Tasmania has opened up in the Antarctic sea ice,

Not one, not two but up to 80 quolls have been born at Mulligans Flat in Canberra's north.

One of the world's rarest parrots may have teetered closer towards the brink of extinction in the wild with no females among the first wave to return to their Tasmanian breeding grounds.

For the second time in four years, a breeding colony of penguins on Antarctica has collapsed.

The fashion house has announced it will no longer use animal fur, beginning with its spring summer 2018 collection.

Tony Abbott's speech to the Global Warming Policy Foundation provides a mix of partial truths that are designed to create a plausible whole.

The global shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy will continue regardless of political action such as the US withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement or outbursts from ex-Australian prime ministers, a senior ratings analyst says.

The NSW Energy Minister said the new laws would allow the mine to continue supplying the Mount Piper power station.

Those hoping for a long hot mostly sunny summer on the beaches and playing fields of Sydney may be in for some disappointment.

A jump in particulate pollution in the Hunter Valley has locals worried about more mines opening up in the area.

A woman has been captured on film picking up a one-metre shark in a Cronulla rock pool and throwing it back into the ocean.

A baby humpback whale buried near a beach on the NSW North Coast will be exhumed so it doesn't attract sharks.

Decades-old standards are fine for mines operating in Sydney's catchment, new bill suggests.

The BOM has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for a line of thunderstorms north of Gympie.

The camera captures the daily lives of the little eagles in West Belconnen.

Hail and heavy rain is predicted from storms predicted to move in a band from Warwick to Maroochydore on the Sunshine Coast on Tuesday.

A move to preempt the Land and Environment Court threatens to keep key issues out of the public debate over a controversial coal mine.

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.

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

Declining success rates of the shy albatross, Australia's only endemic species of the spectacular bird, have prompted conservationists to make an unusual intervention.

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.