The Yalmy galaxias is ‘on the verge of disappearing for ever’ and Laboron the brink of failing to meet its zero extinctions target.

Australia’s biggest superannuation fund has joined a protest vote against Woodside Energy’s failure to do more to address the climate crisis, saying it has ‘ongoing concerns’ about how the country’s biggest oil and gas company will reach net zero emissions by 2050.

Queensland looks to cut emissions by 75 per cent in a decade and a renewable energy target of 80 per cent by 2035 was enshrined in law on Thursday. Labor and the LNP both voted for the former, in a rare show of bipartisanship in an election year to make Queensland a renewables superpower.

Legislation – requiring Queensland to cut emissions by 30 per cent on 2005 levels by 2030, 75 per cent by 2035, and reach net zero by 2050 – was introduced by the Queensland government in February and backed by the opposition, and the Greens in a vote yesterday.

Britain’s biggest asset manager says it will vote to remove Richard Goyder as chairman of Australian oil and gas giant Woodside as shareholder backlash continues building against the board for refusing to do more to tackle global warming ahead of the company’s annual investor meeting next week.An...

Seven months after an El Niño associated with hotter and drier weather got under way, conditions have returned to neutral.Should a La Niña get under way later this year it would be the fourth such event in the past five years. Such a sequence – of three La Niñas followed by an El Niño and La Niña...

It’s not just the Great Barrier Reef that’s going through coral bleaching, the world is experiencing its second major coral bleaching event in 10 years, with reef systems from Australia to Florida teetering on the brink of disaster following months of record-breaking ocean heat.

New data shows the Great Barrier Reef has suffered through its worst-ever heat stress with more than 80% of reefs enduring dangerous levels of heating (more than four Degree Heating Weeks), as scientists grapple to quantify the irreparable, cumulative damage from repeated such events.

The Bureau of Meteorology's first winter forecast of 2024 has confidently declared one of the warmest on record throughout Australia.Australia could meet an “ambitious” target to cut national greenhouse gases by at least 65% and up to 75% by 2035, according to an initial assessment by the Albanese...

Australia’s national science agency has released a survey on nationwide attitudes towards the renewable energy transition, which reveals that almost nine out of every ten Australians want a faster or moderate transition to clean energy. Many respondents have cited energy affordability,...