California is investing $A 20 billion in addressing climate change and to prepare for the state's increasing risk of devastating fires.
Kanishka Singh
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will use a major speech to declare Australia ‘cannot run the risk’ of foreign markets thinking the country is not transitioning to a lower emissions future.
Sarah Ison
The NSW bushfire inquiry has heard why a Black Summer blaze was known by three different names as it burned out of control.
Lane Sainty
Victoria’s historic earthquake triggered sweeping evacuations of office buildings in Melbourne, but one detail proved crucial in the city avoiding a catastrophe.
News Corp Australia
Swathes of extra land across NSW that is critical to the state's conservation efforts is now eligible for protection, thanks to new state legislation.
Tiffanie Turnbull
Melbourne was shocked by a powerful earthquake that rocked the city but a geologist has explained why we shouldn’t be surprised.
James Hall
A tiny council in outback Queensland will decide whether one of Clive Palmer's companies gets to build a new coal-fired power station.
Tracey Ferrier
A magnitude 5.8 quake has caused widespread damage in Melbourne, but one key thing has prevented a total disaster.
Rhiannon Tuffield
Manjimup Shire president Paul Omodei has penned a letter to Premier Mark McGowan to invite him to Manjimup to address the community over the State Government’s decision to end native logging by 2024.
Ben Loughran
Social media has been flooded with pictures of destruction caused by a magnitude 5.8 earthquake that struck Victoria on Wednesday morning.
Anton Nilsson and Courtney Gould
Three states are experiencing a cold front bringing snow and low temperatures but experts have predicted where and when another arctic blast will hit.
Evin Priest
The huge cost of protecting Australia’s beaches and coastal towns could soar as high as $54 million a year - but it won’t be the government picking up the bill.
A South West environmental group claims a leading waste management organisation has “declared war” on the community by applying to expand the dump in Dardanup.
Ailish Delaney
Australia's first overview of its sharks reveals extinction is a risk for several species, but vast areas of unfished sea is helping.
Nick Gibbs
Optus Stadium, Cottesloe Beach, Westfield Carousel and vast swathes of Busselton, Rockingham and Mandurah could be washed away by 2150, according to dramatic climate change modelling.
Hannah Ryan
A severe weather warning has been issued with icy blasts of wind, storms and snow on the way for Victorians as their ‘temperature rollercoaster’ continues.
Catie McLeod
WA Forestry Minister Dave Kelly says the native forest industry’s biggest player warned it would close down this year without almost $26m of Government funding.
Jenne Brammer
Career conservationist Dr Mike Wysong, who spent 14 years working in Hawaii, has joined the team at South Coast Natural Resource Management in Albany.
Kellie Balaam
A controversial project has been given the green light as credit experts note financing is drying up for the ‘dirty’ industry.
Rebecca Le May
The Federal Government has approved a controversial coal expansion project, which had been subject to a court order demanding ministers consider its impact on climate change.
James Thornhill
Plans for a tourism camp in the remote Tasmanian wilderness have suffered a setback after a court ruled the state's planning tribunal needs to assess it again.
Ethan James
It’s shaping as a wetter and stormier summer across the nation’s east coast after the chances of another La Nina occurring were raised.
Jack Paynter
A man had to be pulled from a cherry picker in western Sydney after a freak accident that paramedics described as almost becoming an ‘absolute disaster’.
The CSIRO have named 150 species in the past year including a soldier fly after American drag queen icon RuPaul and several beetles after Pokemon.
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