Australians are choosing in droves to drive on sunshine as electric vehicle sales reach new heights, with the Tesla Model Y electric car the third-best-selling vehicle of any type in September.

A new report has revealed that flaws in the regulation of Australia’s electricity network have delivered billions of dollars worth of profits to poles and wires companies, at the expense of consumers and hindering the transition to renewables.

As fifteen new animal and plant species have also been added to the endangered list, Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has made a commitment to protect an additional 50 million hectares of land by the end of the decade.

Topping off a truly stunning week in energy news after AGL announced all its coal-burning power stations will be closed by 2035, experts were “gobsmacked” by the Queensland Government’s announcement that the state would do the same. Could we be at the tipping point away from coal-burning...

Australia’s biggest climate polluter AGL has announced it will bring forward the closure of its dirty coal-burning power station Loy Yang A by a decade as part of its strategic review - five years beyond what the science calls for but a significant step forward for a company that planned to burn...

The federal government has put fuel efficiency standards on the table in its National EV Strategy discussion paper just released, but with cars and light commercial vehicles accounting for 60 per cent of all transport emissions, we must act now to hit the brakes on Australia’s emissions. 

Australian rock icons Midnight Oil stopped midway through their two-hour performance at RAC Arena in Western Australia to blast gas giant Woodside over its Scarborough gas project. Wearing a t-shirt reading “Woodside = Climate Wrecker” below screens reading “Woodside Ecocide”, frontman Peter...

The president of the Pacific island of Vanuatu has become the first head of state to make a call for a global treaty to phase out the use of fossil fuels, warning of the "debilitating consequences" of climate change.

The campaign to take the human rights impacts of climate change to the world’s highest court has sailed into New York as the UN General Assembly high-level talks take place this week, with Pacific activists on the ground building momentum and global attention. 

New research by the Australian National University’s Professor Andrew Macintosh has identified “systemic flaws” with the way regulators are handing out carbon credits to Australian businesses, calling the system a “fraud on the environment”.