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. 

Offshore oil explorers are circling like sharks eyeing off new Australian oil exploration zones, despite an acknowledged acceptance that the need for new fossil fuel resources is waning as the world transitions to renewables.The Australian trucking industry has “narrowly avoided” a major crisis,...

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.

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. 

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.

A slew of new reports have revealed gaping holes in the Coalition’s approach to climate change, including a failure to account for climate threats in rescue plans for endangered species, and further failure to account for increased soil carbon emissions in its recently released net zero “plan”.The...