Canberra has smashed a 67-year-old record for the warmest late-autumn fortnight although meteorologists are predicting heavy rain will return to the ACT on Tuesday afternoon.

The world passed a threshold “of symbolic and scientific significance” last month, with carbon dioxide levels exceeding 400 parts per million in the northern hemisphere for the first time in human

With less than two weeks to go, the Environmental Protection Agency is readying a climate rule for existing power plants that requires steep carbon reductions while allowing states and companies br

A burst of growth in the wake of drought-breaking rains across inland Australia in 2011 helped to turn the country into one of the world's biggest carbon sinks, new research has found.

The days of door-to-door offers of free energy-saving light bulbs are coming to a close, with the Napthine government announcing it will scrap its program to help families and business cut their po

Farmers opposed to Santos’s coal seam operations in north-western NSW have begun legal action to force the company to reveal information about alleged contamination of two water bores near explorat

Psst. Want ivory? Or maybe a lilac-headed amazon parrot? The online trade in endangered species is growing in Australia despite the efforts of shopping websites and law enforcement.

After 35 years of banking with big Australian banks like National Australia Bank, Paula and Peter Samson closed their accounts to protest the lenders' exposure to the polluting fossil fuel industry

Forest fires and global warming caused an extreme melt of Greenland's ice in 2012, according to a study on Monday that said such thaws may happen almost yearly by 2100, threatening the survival of

The long-running Hazelwood coalmine fire has been described as ''an accident waiting for a time to happen'' in a hard-hitting submission from Environment Victoria to the Hazelwood Mine Fire Inquiry