Australian scientists managing the Great Barrier Reef have lifted their emergency response to the highest level following the publication of video footage of damage caused by coral bleaching.

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The Australian government ended its push to log World Heritage-listed forests on the southern island state of Tasmania on Sunday, after the United Nations cultural agency UNESCO issued a report cal

Damage to parts of the Great Barrier Reef has worsened, leading authorities to raise the alert to the second-highest level, indicating severe local coral bleaching.

Australia's most newly-discovered spider surfs, swims and can catch prey up to three times its own size.

Queensland faces a “dramatic escalation” in carbon pollution that guarantees Australia will fail to meet even its “weak” greenhouse targets unless the commonwealth sets a price on emissions, the st

Australian researchers say a global tracker monitoring energy use per person points to 2C warming by 2030

Concrete has a crushing environmental impact but Australian-led innovations have the potential to dramatically reduce emissions from its production

Proposed coalmines in Queensland, including the huge Adani Carmichael project, would destroy the majority of the remaining habitat of the threatened black-throated finch, according to research.