Carbon emissions from the country's main electricity grid have jumped at an annual rate of about 2 million tonnes in the past two months, the quickest pace in at least a decade, according to analys

A proposal to dump laws which make the significance of a resource and its economic benefit the "principal consideration" during assessment of a major mining application has received overwhelming co

The Abbott government should draw up national rules restricting how wind farms are built and operated and punish states that do not accept them, a Senate committee has urged.

The well-managed conservation reserves may safeguard flora and fauna from many threats, but not from climate change, Australian scientists warned on Tuesday.

ACF writes to environment minister after evidence shows the coalmine’s impact on groundwater and threatened species ‘substantially greater’ than thought

Australia’s 20 biggest polluters will be able to significantly increase their greenhouse gas output despite being covered by the Abbott government’s so-called “safeguard mechanism” and will wipe ou

A 5.3-magnitude earthquake shook the coastline of south-east Queensland. The earthquake has unsettled the pets and the wildlife in the region.

Dutse — Governor Muhammad Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa State said yesterday that the state government had hired an Australian firm to provide a permanent solution to the problem of Typha grass that bl

The Queensland government is considering stepping in to head off a legal challenge to one of Australia’s largest planned solar farms in the state’s northern sugar belt.

Australia's agricultural sector can expect above-average rains in the western part of the country over the next three months, while some southeastern regions could be unseasonably dry, according to