A state government has launched an inquiry into new environmental laws as it calls for a national interest exemption for an oil exploration project.
Andrew Stafford
One Aussie state is expecting widespread rainfall over the week as a wet weather system generated by a slowly downgrading ex-tropical cyclone moves south.
Jack Nivison
Australia splits between tropical cyclone threat and alpine snow as extreme weather systems create dramatic conditions.
Euan Kennedy
Wild weather has gripped Australia, with 100km/h winds battering states while others chase 40C temperatures.
Abisha Sapkota
Thousands are on alert as a dangerous tropical cyclone barrels towards Australia - with impacts possible in a matter of days.
Georgia Palgan and Andrew Hedgman
From plastic detoxes to EVs - the war is changing consumption and behaviour - and in the process, we are helping our hip pocket, our health and the environment
Kim Macdonald
The environmental watchdog has given its blessing to a new gold mine in the Pilbara - but the owner will need to drive slowly, and stick to daytime trucking, so not to disturb a feathered nocturnal neighbour.
Simone Grogan
Australians are riding out blackouts and violent winds in a well-known tourist destination as a powerful cyclone threatens to derail flights home.
Andrew Hedgman
A vigorous cold front will slam southeastern Australia from Thursday, bringing severe thunderstorms, strong wind gusts and unusually wintry conditions.
Georgia Palgan
A proposed policy overhaul by the State Government would allow abandoned mines in WA to be declared ‘rehabilitated’ even if they pose ongoing ‘risks’.
Adrian Rauso
A fresh travel warning has been issued for one of Australia’s Pacific neighbours as twin tropical cyclones loom off the coast.
Aussies are yet again bracing for a potential cyclone just weeks after Tropical Cyclone Narelle smashed towns in three states.
Tropical Cyclone Maila has intensified and could threaten Queensland’s coast next week, though forecasters warn multiple tracking scenarios remain possible.
A large Sydney council has announced another new bin as part of the next phase of a controversial food waste experiment.
David Hannant
Australians have been warned as the world’s most venomous snakes move closer to Aussie homes.
An animal nearing plague-level numbers in one Aussie state is putting a billion-dollar industry under threat – with calls for urgent action.
Emma Kirk
Farmers are being overrun by mice in some rural areas, with scientists warning the rodents could cause havoc for the agricultural sector.
Allanah Sciberras
A record breaking 408kg pumpkin has taken out top honours at this years weigh-in, setting a new competition benchmark and highlighting the strength of local growers.
Amy Towers
Australia’s coal and uranium reserves would power Australia “for over 1000 years” as calls grow for the country to change tack.
Abisha Sapkota and Nathan Schmidt
Foreign Minister Penny Wong says Australia is looking at measures to help Pacific nations deal with the fuel supply crisis sparked by the Middle East war.
Poppy Johnston
Millions of Aussies are set to cop a drenching, but a larger threat looms over the long weekend.
David Hannant, Alexandra Feiam
Ecologists are looking back on efforts to safeguard some of the Stirling Ranges’ most threatened plant species, celebrating six years of the Stirling Range flora translocation project.
Jacki Elezovich
Woodside says carbon capture and storage remains on the table for the giant Browse project despite withdrawing an application for Federal environmental approval.
Matt Mckenzie
From cheetahs, striped hyenas, snowy owls, giant otters and great hammerhead sharks, a UN conference has backed stronger protections for 40 migratory species.
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