WA’s environmental adjudicator has recommended that a lower-carbon steel plant set to be built by South Korea’s Posco in Port Hedland be approved, marking a step forward for the State’s green metal ambitions.
Simone Grogan
Expansion of the salmon industry in one Aussie state has been halted in a major decision slammed as being “shameful” and “strangling growth”.
Clareese Packer
Australia has come close to shattering a temperature record after temperatures in one NSW location plummeted to just -13.2C, just as a huge rain system stares down the east coast.
George Al-Akiki
Millions of Aussies are in the firing line of a huge rain system that is about to drench the country’s east coast.
Blair Jackson
An independent MP has thrown his support behind the Liberal Party, on the same day a probe into Tasmania's salmon industry was announced.
Allanah Sciberras
The impact of AI on scores of jobs in a critical Australian sector has been revealed in new analysis.
Global talks to slash plastic production and the toxic chemicals used to produce plastic products fell apart in Geneva this week.
Alxa St John
A deadly parasite that infests beehives and kills honey bees has been found in new areas of regional Victoria.
Emma Kirk
Both major parties need to commit to greater salmon farming oversights, according to influential crossbench MPs set to decide who will be a state's premier.
Ethan James
A brutal winter blast is sweeping through, bringing snow to low levels, icy winds, heavy showers, and hail, with hazardous conditions set to continue through the weekend.
Blair Jackson, Emma Kirk and Nathan Schmidt
Delegates are angry and disappointed after negotiators working on a historic treaty to address plastic pollution failed to reach an agreement in Geneva.
Emma Farge and Olivia Le Poidevin
Miners seeking to develop new Pilbara projects will get faster decisions with a traffic light system built into a new regional environmental plan, as the economic roundtable looks at how to speed up approvals.
Katina Curtis
Salmon farming has been allowed to continue in a harbour at the centre of a conservation battle, but further legal action has been flagged.
Ethan James and Callum Godde
Nature is declining at an unprecedented rate and a vast library of reptiles, birds and other specimens could help researchers better understand pressure points.
Poppy Johnston
A new primary student-led litter prevention and education initiative is steadfast on reducing, monitoring and preventing the spread of beach litter in Denmark.
Hannah Whitehead
Hail has transformed Queensland’s tropical K’gari into a winter wonderland as visitors revel in the rare weather phenomenon in the Sunshine State.
Alexandra Feiam and Emma Kirk
Authorities are now working to determine how widespread the mop-top potato virus is after it was detected for the first time in Australia in Tasmania’s northwest.
The popular Dog Beach remains closed to the public after debris potentially containing asbestos was uncovered along the shoreline.
Liam Murphy
A drone investigation by conservation groups and ecologists has found an important koala colony living in the path of a proposed coal mine expansion.
More marine life could be added to the threatened species list as the opposition claims SA's devastating algal bloom is "collapsing the ecosystem".
Abe Maddison and Savannah Meacham
An urgent probe is underway after a dolphin washed up on an Adelaide beach, sparking fears an algal bloom plaguing South Australia is worsening.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer and Emma Kirk
Murray Watt says he’s ‘going flat out’ to land an overhaul of environmental laws and has a pledge from Premier Roger Cook to do whatever he can to help.
A group of local governments have joined forces in a bid to construct Australia’s longest continuous walking and cycling loop trail that will “connect the heart of the Wheatbelt”.
Tourism operators are seeing visitor numbers plummet as reports of a devastating algal bloom spread, with misconceptions it is affecting the entire coastline.
Savannah Meacham
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