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.

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. 

Cyclone Tiffany has cut a destructive path across North Queensland’s Cape Yorke, causing flooding less than a week after the state was hit by Cyclone Seth.

North Queensland is being inundated by torrential rain and there’s more to come as Cyclone Tiffany closes in on Cape Yorke.

Australia will begin exporting “clean hydrogen” to Japan as part of a "program to grow" the renewable energy industry.In other news, Shell’s Prelude gas vessel off Kimberley Coast faced catastrophic failure and potential collapse.And Brazil will keep using coal till 2040.Morrison government inks...

Port of Newcastle, the world’s largest coal port, will be powered entirely by renewable energy. The announcement comes as coal power generation in Australia’s national electricity market fell to its lowest level in the final three months of 2021.In other news, Denmark aims to make domestic flights...

Troubling news on looming climate impacts has emerged from the Great Barrier Reef, which scientists say could face another devastating bleaching event early next year, and Antarctica, where observers are eyeing a cracking glacier with trepidation.The resources sector is crowing about a “windfall”,...

A new study has found a link between extreme temperatures from climate change and the chances of a home having its power disconnected, as more than 90 per cent of households surveyed in remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory had their electricity shut off.

Coal is set to be snuffed out from Australia’s electricity system up to a decade earlier than planned under a radical blueprint for the power grid laid out by the The Australian Energy Market Operator, which runs the national electricity network.

New figures reveal record wind and solar output, and record-low output from fossil fuel generators across the September quarter. As a result, electricity prices are falling in South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria – where solar and wind resources are abundant – but rising in coal-reliant New South...