Legislation loopholes allowed controversial $130m Port Melville development to proceed without required environmental impact assessment or approval

A clear majority of Australians view global warming as already causing extreme weather events such as storms, droughts and floods and just 3 per cent say "there is no such thing as climate change",

Oxfam warns looming budget cuts will hinder the ability of aid agencies to prepare and respond to natural disasters in developing countries.

A deal to end the lengthy stand-off over Australia’s renewable energy target has hit a dramatic late hitch after Labor accused the Coalition of trying to include the burning of wood waste as a rene

Rena Gaborov was looking for gliders during a night-time survey in the East Gippsland forest near Bonang when she first heard the call. It stopped her in her tracks.

Climate change is a hoax led by the United Nations so that it can end democracy and impose authoritarian rule, according to Prime Minister Tony Abbott's chief business adviser.

ISLAMABAD - Visiting Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Wednesday announced a $19 million aid package for Pakistan that includes help for border areas hit by conflict and natural disasters

The environment minister, Greg Hunt, has reassured the United Nations’ top climate negotiator that the Coalition’s existing policies will reduce greenhouse emissions from electricity generation and

One of the UK’s largest banks, Standard Chartered, has lent $680m (£448m) to a company building one of the biggest coal mines in the world, according to legal testimony that casts doubt over the ba

Queensland bushland is being destroyed on an “industrial scale”, with approvals for land clearing underway creating the equivalent of nearly 2% of Australia’s annual CO2 emissions, according to an