Environment
Queensland braces for Cyclone Kimi
Far North Queensland is bracing for Category Two tropical Cyclone Kimi, leaving residents on high alert.
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Forestry Corp sought to ease post-bushfire logging curbs to save jobs
Hundreds of forestry jobs are at "imminent" risk because of the lack of available timber following last summer's bushfires, the state-owned logging company warned in a letter to the environmental watchdog.
- by Peter Hannam
National weather forecast for Monday, January 18
Brisbane, partly cloudy heading for a top of 30 degrees. Sydney, mostly sunny, a maximum of 29 degrees. Clear skies for Canberra, 31 degrees. Melbourne, 23 and partly cloudy.
Outdated Victorian environment laws failing wildlife: report
Conservationists have decried the state’s environment laws as being part of the problem facing wildlife rather than a means to protect it.
- by Miki Perkins
Category two cyclone near Port Douglas
Far North Queensland is on high alert for a storm expected to make landfall as a category two cyclone.
Monster clean-up after Sunshine Coast storm
A storm ripped through south east Queensland, uprooting trees and leaving hundreds without power.
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National parks get $400 million boost to help recover from Black Summer bushfires
Helicopters, which were being used a year ago to drop remote-area firefighters during the height of the blaze, are now being used to winch in 600-kilogram loads of sandstone steps to rebuild damaged bushwalks
- by Peter Hannam
Annual heat records tumble as global warming trend continues
The past seven years on earth have been the hottest ever recorded, a trend experts say is driven by climate change and set to continue.
- by Miki Perkins