The ACT government has closed off its premium rooftop solar scheme, forcing people who are yet to hook up to the grid to do so by the end of next year or miss out.

Australia's carcass-strewn climate policy landscape has given rise to many grisly myths and tales.

If the climate change debate wasn't polarised enough, another divide has opened up: the attitudes of men versus those of women.

This is the first ever digital map of the Earth's seafloor, revealing deep ocean basins to be much more complex than previously thought.

The CSIRO has cancelled its annual survey of Australians' attitudes to climate change and won't release the results of its 2014 study until late this year.

Reintroducing Tasmanian devils to the Australian mainland after a 3,000-year absence would drastically improve the fortunes of native wildlife by curbing the spread of feral cats and foxes, researc

Involvement with the mine, which critics say threatens endangered species, was exposing the London-based bank to reputational damage

Conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Tuesday announced cuts to Australia's greenhouse gas emissions that were immediately criticized by environmental groups and opposition politicians for lag

A ground-breaking Australian study has revealed as many as 10 percent of children suffer a mental health disorder during childhood, with up to one in 13 children considering suicide.

The federal government is considering changing national environment laws in the wake of an embarrassing federal court setback that overturned its approval of what would be Australia’s largest mine.