With one eye to coal communities and another to his party’s mediocre environmental credentials, Anthony Albanese has declared Labor will support a taxpayer-funded power station in the Hunter Valley but only if the proposed white elephant can run on green hydrogen instead of gas by 2030.

The Morrison Government is pledging $1 billion for Great Barrier Reef conservation projects over the next decade, just days before Australia is due to send a report to Unesco about the state of the Reef and its plans to protect it. 

There are calls from the Greens and a progressive think tank for the Morrison Government to stop using the Northern Australia Infrastructure Fund to gift more taxpayer money to the fossil fuel industry, particularly the development of the NT’s Betaloo Basin.

Australian expeditioners have discovered a two-kilometre-deep canyon underneath a glacier in Antarctica, which indicates the glacier once extended 60km further than it currently does and had a significant role in rising sea levels.

Woodside is pushing ahead as quickly as possible with financials for development of Burrup Hub.

Tongan authorities have advised residents to remain indoors in the wake of a volcanic eruption and tsunami, which has claimed at least two lives, as chemicals released in the blast threaten to choke survivors and trigger acid rain.

Over the weekend a massive volcanic eruption in Tonga coated the country in ash, with tsunami waves swamping the island and communications cut off. Our thoughts are with the 80,000 people caught up in this catastrophic event.In Australia, gas producers are crowing over current high prices, but the...

Towns across Western Australia have recorded some of the hottest weather ever recorded in the country, while the east coast prepares for heavy rains, humid nights and the after-effects of an ex-tropical cyclone. 

A new report by a leading climate change expert has found that proposed gas development in the Lake Eyre Basin could increase Australia's total annual emissions by 60 per centInvestor groups have warned the EU against labelling gas investments as ‘green’Record ocean temperatures continue to drive...

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has pledged to revamp the $4.7 billion Emergency Response Fund and spend $200 million a year on disaster prevention and resilience while attacking the Morrison Government for failing to protect Australians from extreme weather.