Major polluting companies believe a carbon price will be reintroduced in Australia some time in the future, according to the first business survey released after its repeal.
Australian cosmetics could finally become free from animal testing with a new public consultation being launched to figure out how to enact laws that will completely ban the practice.
It was after the sixth turtle that Ian Gowrie-Smith burned down the fishermen’s huts. He couldn’t help himself, he said later. The big green sea turtle was dead.
US oil and gas player Apache has made what is being heralded by some as Australia's largest oil discovery in the past 30 years, potentially pointing to a new oil province off the north-west coast.
The company planning to build one of the country’s largest solar farms has walked away from the project amid uncertainty over federal government support for a long-term renewable energy target.
An El Nino remains a possibility in 2014 after renewed signs of the weather event were detected in the Pacific, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
Building the Keystone XL pipeline could lead to as much as four times more greenhouse gas emissions than the State Department has estimated, according to a study published in the journal Nature Cli
A dam able to hold 100 million litres of water would be built on Mount Buller to boost the resort's snowmaking capability and fresh water supply, under a proposed $8.25 million project before autho
A large swathe of eastern Australia, including coastal regions from Coffs Harbour to Bundaberg, is in the midst of its driest year since the Federation Drought more than a century ago, according to
