Electric vehicles will not be a silver bullet as the ACT looks to cut transport emissions after 2020.

Sydney's long, hot summer looks set to leave with a sizzle and a sting in its tail.

Local communities in the far west of NSW remain "voiceless" over issues such as the health of the Darling River.

Wanted: discrete volunteers who can distinguish between a deep, double “woo-hoo” hoot and a “soft, deep, and continuous low oom oom oom” sound.

The fate of a 50-year-old national park in western NSW is "at the mercy of water managers", as the battle for the Murray-Darling Basin hots up.

The NSW government intervened to urge the purchase of water rights from a large irrigator on the Darling River that delivered a one-off $37 million profit.

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Some will no doubt say that if you charge an EV from renewable sources the emissions are zero.

Researchers are trying to re-establish northern corroboree frog numbers.

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Property and waste magnate Balfour Irvine wants to develop a landfill at New Chum that would rival the nearby Cleanaway site, angering local campaigners.

Powerful winds battered Melbourne suburbs on Monday night, causing a cruise ship to get wedged up against a pier and dozens of trees to fall.

Researchers aboard an Australian ship undertaking pioneering work in the Southern Ocean have found the "first hint" of a shift.

A welcome drop in temperature late on Monday is expected to hang around until the end of the week.

A blanket of smoke threatens to blanket homes in the Blue Mountains and western Sydney on Sunday as winds fan blazes in Hunter region.

Seismic testing for gas and oil off the NSW coast has unearthed a rift between the state Coalition Energy Minister and his federal counterpart.

The Berejiklian government's Climate Change Fund has collected in excess of a quarter of a billion dollars more than it has spent in the past three years

How did a tiny fraction of water savings and perhaps 200 jobs leave the $13 billion plan at risk.

Authority omitted evidence that apparently showed water bought by taxpayers for environment purposes was being sucked up by a downstream irrigator.

Beachgoers have been warned hefty waves are set to crash into Sydney beaches as a cyclone swell triggers powerful surf conditions along the east coast.

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The community of tiny Stanley in north-east Victoria has lost its war to prevent water extracted from beneath its plateau being trucked away for bottling.

"We got the shots in the last two hours, of the last day, of five weeks of shooting seven days a week."

The details of how most animals became domesticated are much debated and glimpsed only in tantalising hints from fossils and DNA. We thought we knew the story of rabbits.

Environmental groups have dropped out of consultations over native logging on public lands, saying the government has decided to roll over agreements.

Australia's shellfish reefs are the country's most threatened ocean ecosystem and are almost extinct.

Meet two women who have fought valiantly to have New Hope Group's $900 million expansion of a coal mine on the Darling Downs go ahead, despite conservationists.

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You're more likely to hear Sydneysiders talking about traffic or property prices than water. Memories of the millennial drought have faded as our reservoirs have filled with years of above-average rainfall. But this period of water wealth should not delude us. It will not last forever.

The $13 bln Murray-Darling Basin Plan was at a 'critical moment' as Labor senators joined the Greens to block a move to cut environment water.

An old timber bridge built before the 1860s under what is now known as Kingsford Smith Drive has been uncovered during a $650 million road-widening project.

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Balloons are now recognised as one of the top three threats to marine wildlife.

The eruption of pine bark beetles that has devastated forests in North America is an example of surprises from climate change, says NASA's Gavin Schmidt.