If you think the last year has been particularly disaster-heavy, the CSIRO’s megatrends report makes for very grim reading with the experts forecasting that climate change will triple the cost of extreme weather events over the next 30 years.

The new Parliament will sit for the first time today with the government expected to pass its proposed climate legislation after strengthening the bill to ensure that the 43 per cent emissions reduction target cannot be weakened.

Greenpeace is among a record number of individuals and organisations lodging appeals against the WA EPA’s recommendation to extend Woodside’s dirty North West Shelf gas processing plant until 2070 - a move that threatens to blow Australia’s carbon budget. 

The day after the State of the Environment report painted a damning picture of ecological destruction and neglect, Greens Leader Adam Bandt will call for a moratorium on new coal and gas projects in a bid to stop exacerbating the climate crisis as an urgent first step.

Our new federal environment minister will today release a sweeping report on the state of the environment that will show it is in bad shape and getting worse because of factors including climate change, habitat loss, invasive species, mining and pollution. No wonder the previous government didn’t...

As the Australian energy crisis deepens, fossil fuel exporters are pocketing billions on the export market, while a new Grattan Institute paper argues for stricter controls on the country’s biggest polluters.

WA’s environmental regulator has recommended approval of gas giant Woodside’s North West Shelf Project’s operation all the way through to the 2070s, which will blow Australia’s emissions budget and fuel worsening climate change. 

The path to Australia’s clean energy future is clear and we must act now as the Australian Energy Market Operator releases its 30-year electricity market roadmap, calling for more than $12 billion of investment in new transmission lines to begin "as urgently as possible" as part of a transition to...

The National Electricity Market has been switched back on, after being brought to a state of near-collapse, but persistent coal outages continue to plague the system and hamper market recovery. Unreliable coal is dragging our energy market backward.Meanwhile, Rio Tinto’s seen the writing on the...

With AEMO's intervention in Australia's east coast energy market ending overnight, experts warn of further turbulence as more retailers decline new customers and others are forced out of the industry - a damning indictment of the greed of coal and gas companies hurting Australians and the country's...