Tech giant Uber has set a 2040 deadline to phase out petrol vehicles and unnecessary plastic waste from food deliveries made through the Uber Eats platform across Australia as part of a push to curb its impact on the environment.

Seabin - an environmental project that filters the water in Sydney Harbour to capture microplastics and large plastics - has observed a 70% reduction in lightweight plastic bags floating in the harbour. The company’s CEO says that this shows the staggering impact of an enforced ban on lightweight...

UNESCO hails $2.9-bn Australian plan to protect Great Barrier ReefThe UN's cultural agency UNESCO welcomed on Tuesday commitments from Australia to protect the Great Barrier Reef, with the government pledging 4.4 billion Australian dollars ($2.9 billion) to safeguard the natural wonder. There has...

Two thousand Woodside employees were evacuated from the company’s headquarters in Perth after a faux gas leak organised by those campaigning against its $50 billion Burrup Hub projects. This is the latest in a long series of actions against Woodside and its plans to prolong and expand gas...

Woolworths has announced that it will launch 27 new electric vehicles onto the roads of Sydney in coming months, the first stage of a broader plan to make its entire fleet 100 per cent electric-powered by 2030. According to Woolworths, the plan will help it hit its target of reducing transport...

Inside the car industry’s climate lobbying pushThe car industry has been driving a co-ordinated lobbying campaign among policymakers to limit emissions cuts from vehicles and to downplay the role of electric vehicles, government documents reveal. This is “a troubling indictment of the fossil...

Global investment in clean energy will extend its lead over spending on fossil fuels in 2023, with solar projects expected to outpace outlays on oil production for the first time.

United States oil and gas giant Chevron has acknowledged its flagship carbon capture and storage project off Australia's north-west coast is operating at just a third of its capacity as problems bedevil the facility. Analysts and critics say this raises more questions than answers for the use of...

Environmental activist organization Greenpeace is insisting that Woodside, an oil and gas company, must promptly remove a submerged gas tower located near the Western Australian coastline. Greenpeace CEO David Ritter expressed the "outright arrogance" displayed by fossil fuel owners of the tower in...