A report card shows water quality in the inshore of the Great Barrier Reef remains poor.

Signs of improving water quality on the Great Barrier Reef will keep the iconic natural wonder off a list of world heritage sites considered "in danger", Environment Minister Greg Hunt says.

Global investment in fossil-fuel energy continues to outpace new spending on renewable sources, leaving the world on track for temperature increases of at least 3.6 degrees, according to a new repo

Australia's greenhouse gas cut targets quietly tripled on Saturday night, from a 5 per cent cut by 2020 to a cut of more than 18 per cent.

Australia has experienced its hottest two-year period ever recorded as the country feels the impact of climate change, a report released today finds.

President Barack Obama’s tougher climate change policy is likely to add pressure on other countries, including Australia, to increase their own efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, a US-based

The price of emissions needed to spur investment in carbon capture and storage, or CCS, projects will probably drop from a current estimate of about $US125 a metric ton, according to Royal Dutch Sh

The country's embrace of natural gas means less love for wind and solar.

The Baird government is losing patience with delays by coal miners in submitting environment plans for the Leard State Forest in the state’s north even as land-clearing work continues in the area.

Efforts to put a value on greenhouse- gas emissions to contain global warming are being hurt as countries from Australia to Russia and Japan pull back from carbon-reduction commitments, according t