Murderer's relatives slapped with record fine for illegal land-clearing
The family of a man who shot dead a NSW environment officer has been slapped with record fines totalling more than $700,000 for illegal land-clearing offences.
Peter Hannam is Environment Editor at The Sydney Morning Herald. He covers broad environmental issues ranging from climate change to renewable energy for Fairfax Media.
The family of a man who shot dead a NSW environment officer has been slapped with record fines totalling more than $700,000 for illegal land-clearing offences.
The chances of a wetter-than-average summer for eastern Australia are increasing, with a La Nina weather pattern likely to take hold in the Pacific.
There was a moment of stunned silence at a hastily arranged teleconference of energy ministers on Tuesday evening.
The Turnbull government's national energy guarantee could supply as large a share of renewable energy into the market as proposed by the Finkel Review, Bloomberg New Energy Finance says.
Renewable energy's share of the electricity sector will plateau from 2020 under the Turnbull government's energy plan.
A carbon price is set to return under the Turnbull government's new national energy guarantee.
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.
A mysterious and rare hole the size of Tasmania has opened up in the Antarctic sea ice,
For the second time in four years, a breeding colony of penguins on Antarctica has collapsed.
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