The warming Arctic Ocean is linked to a two- to four-fold increase in the frequency of severe winter storms in the eastern US, a new paper finds. 

• OPINION

Almost a year after companies were encouraged to come clean over the financial risks climate change poses to their business, barely a handful have acted.

Dozens of homes and public assets are at risk from rising sea levels and inundation along the Illawarra coastline.

Sales of new petrol and diesel-powered cars would be banned by 2030 to spur take-up of electric vehicles, according to a Greens plan pitched at Batman voters.

Stockland, one of Australia's biggest developers, is adding the equivalent of nine rugby fields of solar panels to shopping centre roofs.

The buckling of weather in the northern hemisphere that has seen a relative Arctic heatwave and frigid conditions over Europe has a southern counterpart.

A Turnbull government push to have Australia's "green investment bank" invest in so-called clean-coal technologies has hit a snag.

The chart that has climate scientists amazed, while Europeans are left bracing for the "Beast from the East".

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

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

• OPINION

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.

• OPINION

This is an opportunity for sporting codes to show leadership around climate change and its potential effects.

Queensland's top tourist destinations are under threat from climate change, according to the latest report from the Climate Council.

Solar energy approvals are accelerating and this year will likely see total capacity surge at an unprecedented rate in NSW and the country as a whole.

The ozone layer is not healing as fast as scientists had hoped.

Developing the Northern Territory's onshore shale oil and gas resources could release the equivalent of 34 billion tonnes of carbon emissions, equal to 60 times Australia's current annual carbon pollution, according to The Australia Institute.

The Great Barrier Reef is in "deep trouble" as climate change and other threats mount, hindering the ability of corals to rebound from natural events, a senior scientist with the reef's Marine Park Authority said.

Australia's mean temperatures have been increasing at the rate of about 0.15 degrees every 10 years in recent decades.

If climate change curbs live up to their promise, oil demand may fall 20 per cent by 2040, Exxon Mobil says in one forward-looking report. But a more likely scenario is it will grow by 20 per cent, the company says in separate outlook.

Consumers are quick to complain about their rising bills but not so quick to demand their homes become less wasteful of energy.

Ginninderry will become the first Canberra suburb without gas, in a trial that could determine if other new developments will also be solely powered by electricity.

Australia's minimum energy standards for new homes are based on climate data that is up to decades old, overestimating their true performance as conditions in many parts of the nation warm.

79 scientists in the largest-ever female expedition to Antarctica are part of a long-term project to change the way environmental policies are made.

Making cities and farm fields more reflective could reduce extreme heat by up to 3 degrees Celsius.

Australia's climate policies are "a decade behind" other rich nations, says UN official.

But the bigger worry is what will happen as more people crowd into big cities, a new report says.

Businesses should seize a $6 trillion opportunity to invest in tackling climate change over the next two decades, the head of an Indian multinational said at Davos on Thursday.

An unusually large cyclone has been buffeting the Antarctic coast this week, shifting sea ice that had already been tracking at record-low levels.

The Turnbull government's pledge of an additional $60 million to help improve the health of the Great Barrier Reef has been dismissed by environmental groups and scientists as insufficient and a "wasteful publicity stunt".