Coal companies could pay "a few lousy dollars" to damage sensitive swamps that provide pure drinking water to millions of Sydneysiders if mining changes proposed by the Baird government proceed, en
Australia has received more than $4 billion in money from foreign governments to fund coal projects since 2007, according to a new report highlighting the extent to which wealthy countries are stil
May capped off another relatively dry month for Australia, spreading drought conditions across eastern regions of the country just as winter begins and the influence of an El Nino starts to take ho
Spare a thought for the folk in Bulga, a village in the Upper Hunter which has twice tried to fend off a proposal by Coal and Allied/Rio Tinto to extend the massive open-cut Warkworth coal mine to
Prospects are firming that the latest El Nino event may leave much of Australia drier, with conditions in the Indian Ocean possibly reinforcing those in the Pacific, the Bureau of Meteorology says.
The value of global carbon permits expanded to $US34 billion ($44 billion) in the past year, with gains led by South Korea, California and Quebec, the World Bank said.
Ecologists have warned that Melbourne is at risk of losing more than half its native plant species over the next century, with grasslands in Melbourne's west most vulnerable to the city's urban spr
