If you want to slow climate change, white meat may be the right meat, according to two studies that tally the environmental effect of the beef industry.
Expectations of a strong El Nino weather event in the Pacific are being pared back but warmer-than-usual conditions are expected to persist, meteorologists say.
Australia cut carbon dioxide emissions from its electricity sector by as much as 17 million tonnes because of the carbon price and would have curbed more had industry expected the price to be perma
The odds of a strong El Nino, which brings drought to the Asia-Pacific region and heavy rains to South America, are increasingly unlikely after the tropical Pacific Ocean cooled, according to the B
A major coal mine planned by BHP Billiton for north-western NSW would have "direct and significant impacts" on the productivity of rich local farmland, an independent panel has found.
They are the glimmering jewels in the depths of our oceans, but plant-eating tropical fish are beginning to threaten Australia's forests under the sea.
Sea levels may rise much faster than predicted because climate models have failed to account for the disruptive effects of stronger westerly winds, Australian-led research has found.
In November 2010, three combatants gathered in a sleek office here to build a carbon emissions policy that they hoped to sell to the Obama administration.
Tony Abbott’s plan to axe the carbon price this week has come in for some withering criticism from his own side of politics, with a former head of the UK’s Conservative Party declaring it to be an
