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Setting the world alight: Daniel Ellsberg exposes our doomsday risks
If there was a 10 per cent chance your experiment would set the world's skies and seas alight, would you go ahead?
If there was a 10 per cent chance your experiment would set the world's skies and seas alight, would you go ahead?
Versace has traditionally included fur from a variety of species, including mink and fox, across its ranges.
Extreme weather events such as severe heatwaves, bushfires and supercharged storms are placing Australian lives at risk.
An unusually broad range of scientific fields has identified a new risk to a key set of species at the bottom of the food chain from climate change.
The crisis facing the waste recycling industry in Australia is deepening as calls mount for Canberra to intervene.
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.
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.
A Melbourne council is so frustrated by developers and property owners felling or damaging trees without permission that it wants to bring in tree bonds.
Parts of Sydney have had their biggest dump of rain in five years, helping to soak gardens still dry after a prolonged spell of below-average falls.
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.
The thinning ozone layer and Indian farming practices may add up to more days of extreme radiation in Australia.
Australia has lost more mammals to extinction than any other country with a new report urging the federal government to take action on the crisis.
The Berejiklian government said it was investigating a big irrigator on the Barwon-Darling River last June but farmer says he only found out last week.
Conservationists say habitat destruction is accelerating and denying threatened species a fighting chance of survival".
AGL Energy has earmarked $200 million to improve efficiency at its biggest power station but will do nothing to cut output of a key pollutant.
The Berejiklian government's new land-clearing laws have been thrown into disarray after a court found ministers had failed to follow due process.
Two emperor penguins in Antarctica captured a short video of themselves after coming across a camera left on the ice by a human.
"I frankly don't know what we should do with holes that now measure in the cubic kilometres."
The first legal actions over water use breaches in NSW have begun just as the Ombudsman was about to table in Parliament a report critical of the government.
Federal Labor have attacked the NSW government for deliberately holding back details of a damning report before a key vote on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
The head of the state's new Independent Planning Commission wants more transparency so the process can be 'interrogated and trusted'.
About 2000 people a year have 'primary contact' with wastewater from the three untreated discharge points.
Plans to convert a defence site into a freight hub in Sydney's south-west can proceed provided a plant not seen in almost 200 years is protected.
Stockland, one of Australia's biggest developers, is adding the equivalent of nine rugby fields of solar panels to shopping centre roofs.
The ailing state of the Darling River has been quietly traced to man-made water extraction, according to the Murray-Darling Basin Authority's own report.
Australia’s entire system of “yellow-lid bin” kerbside recycling is threatened by China’s clampdown on imported recyclables, officials are told during crisis talks with the waste industry.
Taking to their local parks and waterways on Sunday, Clean Up Australia Day volunteers picked up more than 15,000 tonnes of rubbish.
There are concerns about the future of recycling in Australia.
When video emerged of an orca “talking”, or, let’s be honest, mimicking human sounds, it saddened us rather than impressed us. All it showed was an intelligent and complex animal performing a cheap trick.
Federal Labor have attacked the NSW government for deliberately holding back details of a damning report before a key vote on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
The head of the state's new Independent Planning Commission wants more transparency so the process can be 'interrogated and trusted'.
About 2000 people a year have 'primary contact' with wastewater from the three untreated discharge points.
Plans to convert a defence site into a freight hub in Sydney's south-west can proceed provided a plant not seen in almost 200 years is protected.
Stockland, one of Australia's biggest developers, is adding the equivalent of nine rugby fields of solar panels to shopping centre roofs.
The ailing state of the Darling River has been quietly traced to man-made water extraction, according to the Murray-Darling Basin Authority's own report.
Australia’s entire system of “yellow-lid bin” kerbside recycling is threatened by China’s clampdown on imported recyclables, officials are told during crisis talks with the waste industry.
Taking to their local parks and waterways on Sunday, Clean Up Australia Day volunteers picked up more than 15,000 tonnes of rubbish.
There are concerns about the future of recycling in Australia.
Up to 1000 pieces of rubbish occupy each kilometre of Australian coastline, statistics from the Australian Marine Debris Initiative Database show.