Clive Palmer's Waratah Coal wants a review of a Queensland court's advice that its proposed coal mine should be rejected due to climate change impacts.
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has lauded Australia's progress from environmental "laggard to leader" as nations agree on a nature protection framework.
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek says Australia can be proud of its role in negotiating a landmark pact to address the global nature crisis.
Australia's environment minister has used a nature summit in Canada to tell UNESCO the Great Barrier Reef does not deserve an in-danger listing.
Australia has promised ongoing funding to help developing countries protect nature as the environment minister heads to a biodiversity summit in Canada.
Australia and the United States have inked a new deal to develop new systems to measure the vast contribution nature makes to the global economy.
A new report says the mountain of waste Australia produces is continuing to grow but the proportion of what's recycled is not, compounding the landfill problem.
The Greens are expected to vote against a plan to compensate coal and gas companies for temporary price caps, as the industry wants to meet the prime minister.
Picture this. You’re in government for the first time in more than a decade. And within six months, you’re facing a diabolical problem: skyrocketing energy prices. To your constituents, it doesn’t matter that the root cause is a war in Europe. What they’ll see is pain – electricity and gas bills climbing and climbing.
The NSW energy minister has been asked to reject an oil and gas giant's plans to enter farming land as part of a 400-kilometre underground pipeline project.
Labor has detailed how it will fix Australia's nature laws with green groups welcoming moves to shift development decisions to an independent adjudicator.
Swiss multinational Glencore is reviewing how its plan for a new $2 billion coal mine in central Queensland fits with its aims to cut emissions to net zero.
A community group has started legal action to stop the Mount Pleasant operation in the NSW Upper Hunter becoming the biggest open-cut coal mine in the state.
A report by two conservation groups says Queensland beef farmers cleared about 1.53 million hectares of land to create pastures between 2014 and 2019.
The environment minister is about to tell Australians how she'll fix laws that have failed the nation's ailing environment, two years on from a major review.
Activists who cause disruption should should have the book thrown at them, NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet says, as a young woman's sentencing sparks protests.
Australia has been challenged to lead from the front at a UN conference that aims to halt the destruction humans are inflicting on the natural world.
The Queensland premier has rejected fossil fuel price caps, instead calling for other states and the federal government to fund a gas pipeline.
Ten Extinction Rebellion protesters have been kicked out of Queensland parliament after launching a protest while the premier was speaking about energy.
Australia could play a big role in reducing air travel emissions as the Queensland government confirms talks to produce greener aviation fuels.
The Queensland government has given another company a permit to look for gas in the remote Lake Eyre Basin while it draws up plans to protect the region.
A United Nations monitoring mission released its long-awaited report on the Great Barrier Reef, saying it should be listed as a World Heritage site in danger.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is open to more ambitious emissions targets, but says the future of the state's coal mines depends on market demand.
A United Nations monitoring mission released its long-awaited report on the Great Barrier Reef, saying it should be listed as a World Heritage site in danger.
A Queensland thermal coal mine should be refused because it will contribute to climate change, damaging the environment and impact human rights, a court says.
A likely threatened species habitat the size of the Gold Coast may have been illegally cleared in Queensland without any consequence, a report says.
The COP27 climate summit has agreed to a landmark fund to help poor countries but has done little to boost efforts to curb the emissions causing global warming.
The global climate conference COP27 will be extended by one day, the Egyptian government says.
Australia is elated after the warm welcome it received at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt, but observers say the global goodwill will only last so long.
New rules about fuel quality in Australia could ban the sale of some vehicles but see a new generation of green cars hit local roads.
Climate change myths are alive and well in the minds of Australians, including what's causing it, a new survey suggests.
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