States are leading the charge on electric vehicles as drivers of conventional cars look for short-term relief at the bowser and consider permanent alternatives.
The Great Barrier Reef is suffering another bleaching event as UN experts arrive to check on the health of the ecosystem.
Citizen scientists are joining a national survey of south-eastern glossy black cockatoo numbers, which have been in decline since the 2019/2020 bushfires.
The Great Barrier Reef is in the grip of another significant bleaching event, with widespread but variable impacts reported so far.
A scathing audit has found most threatened species in Australia are not being monitored, and no one is assessing whether recovery plans are working.
Sussan Ley welcomed a court finding she's not responsible for protecting Australian children from climate change harm, but students have vowed to keep fighting.
Wildlife carers are under enormous strain after the floods with animals in their care often suffering multiple blows from the disaster.
Three Federal Court judges have overturned a finding that the Australian government has a duty of care to protect children from harms caused by climate change.
A high-tech stainless steel lab has been built in Queensland to determine plastic pollution loads in the human body.
Australia is about to get back some of its nuclear waste, but conservationists are alarmed by what the federal government plans to do with it.
Australians are already paying more for meat, bread, dairy and fruit because climate change is disrupting food supply chains, a new report has found.
The Climate Council says thousands more Australians now have lived experience of a climate system that has been super-charged by global warming.
A top Queensland scientist has warned of mass dugong and turtle deaths in coming months as smothered food sources vanish.
VicForests harvested forests that were known or likely to contain threatened species or their habitat after the Black Summer bushfires, a court has heard.
A sodden baby koala has been rescued from beside the swollen Brisbane River but others are sure to have perished in floods that have ravaged vital habitat.
A man's body has been found under a wharf in Brisbane, taking the death toll from devastating floods in southeast Queensland to 10.
Australia and other nations have agreed to pursue a binding treaty to deal with the plastics crisis but the process is expected to be complex and contentious.
A weather system dubbed a 'rain bomb' is actually an atmospheric river that's about to do a dance with low pressure system.
The Great Barrier Reef is in crisis and without urgent emissions cuts could bleach every year in the not too distant future, the latest climate report warns.
The Australian government has defended its environmental credentials, arguing that the country had reduced emissions faster than many comparable nations.
The Conservation Council of Western Australia's court challenge against approvals granted for Woodside's $16 billion Scarborough gas project has been rejected.
The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change paints a devastating picture of the future, while carbon emissions have been unchecked.
The UN body that assesses climate change risks has issued dire warnings about disasters and environmental losses in Australia.
The science community has released a damning summary of the impact of human-induced climate change which will hit Australia's agricultural sector.
A new poll suggests Australians are highly protective of national parks and reserves and opposed to commercial development within their boundaries.
Further examination of bright blue octocorals found on Queensland's Sunshine Coast has found they are a separate species unique to the area.
Scientists have documented the extraordinary behaviour of a group of magpies after they freed their mates from GPS tracking devices.
An emerging recycling technology can reduce plastic to a powder-form that can be used to make new products as good as virgin plastic.
Wildlife specialists say a “corn snake zone” exists in Western Sydney, with thousands being kept as exotic pets despite being prohibited.
Increasingly, the exotic pet is also being found in Queensland, particularly in the south east.
South Australia will establish a network of more than 500 charging points for electric cars in a bid to encourage more people to switch to EVs.
Scientists say a bizarre government pact with no expiry date has robbed the Snowy River of the water it needs to cope with the hydro power scheme.
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