La Niña set to return

The odds of there being a third sodden summer in a row have shortened now the Bureau of Meteorology has declared a La Niña alert.

Ending subsidies for fossil fuels and tax breaks for mining companies could add more than $300 billion to federal budgets over the next decade, a new report reveals.

And scientists in Australia and the US have launched an ambitious multimillion-dollar project to bring back the Tasmanian Tiger.

BOM declares La Niña alert, signalling strong chance of another sodden summer

Renewed cooling in the tropical Pacific Ocean and models indicating La Niña is likely during spring and early summer have prompted the BOM to raise the El Niño Southern Oscillation Index scale to "alert", the last step before an official La Niña.

End to miner tax loophole could net $322b

Australia's budget woes driven by the COVID-19 pandemic could be eased by closing tax loopholes and ending fossil fuel rebates, a new report says. Research group Climate Energy Finance estimates Australia's coffers could be boosted by $322 billion over the next decade under its proposed changes.

De-extinction: scientists are planning the multimillion-dollar resurrection of the Tasmanian tiger

Scientists in Australia and the US have launched an ambitious multimillion-dollar project to bring back the thylacine, a marsupial that died out in the 1930s, and reintroduce it to its native Tasmania.

Across outback Queensland, Great Artesian Basin water is surfacing where it has never been seen before

Scores of potential new species are being uncovered as water springs emerge in places they have never been seen before in outback Queensland.

Singapore’s Vena Energy joins rush to Australia offshore wind with Gippsland project

Singapore-based Vena Energy – which built the first large scale solar farm in South Australia and the first big battery in Queensland – is poised to join the huge rush for a share of Australia’s nascent offshore wind industry.

Vanuatu breaks ground with enhanced climate action plan

Pacific island state Vanuatu has submitted a "groundbreaking" update to its commitments under the Paris climate accord to include phasing out fossil fuels and a costing of how it aims to tackle destruction caused by rising seas and wild weather.