The NSW Labor government has flagged extending the life of Australia’s largest coal-fired power station beyond 2025 but cannot say how long it will stay open or whether taxpayers could be forced to foot the bill.A Senate inquiry into the planned Middle Arm development near Darwin has been...

New rules banning single-use plastics, including microbeads and polystyrene packing peanuts, will come into effect today in Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia. 

A trio of judges will soon deliver a decision over a controversial mining lease that protesters say was made only to block them from a key access road in the Tarkine, where their concerted protest against a proposed tailings dam continues to unfold.

Scientists say seismic blasting in gas exploration can have subtle but critical effects on marine life as concerns rise over Woodside's Scarborough gas project in Western Australia's north. Greenpeace senior campaigner Sophie McNeill questioned the approvals given to Woodside by the offshore...

Supermarket giant Coles is going green with its first electric delivery van now on the roads. Coles estimates the van will save up to $170 on fuel each week, emit less emissions than its petrol-powered cousins and be quieter.

Australia could produce billions of litres of sustainable aviation fuel in the second half of the decade, a new report by the CSIRO and Boeing has found.Pollution at Australia’s largest Antarctic research station, Casey, has exceeded international guidelines for close to 20 years, new research...

The Australian Conservation Foundation has captured infrared video that they say exposes climate-heating methane gas leaks and venting at dozens of mines and facilities owned by energy giants Santos and Origin, as well as pipeline company Jemena. 

Fossil fuel giant Woodside is threatening legal action against two climate activists after one let off stench gas inside its Perth headquarters. Greenpeace Australia Pacific CEO David Ritter said threatening to sue the activist over the gas prank was “a bit on the nose” considering the threat...

More than 300 Labor branches have backed a push by the party’s environmental arm for the Albanese government to fund an expanded, publicly owned plantation industry to ensure the country gets the timber it needs and end native forest logging.

Fossil fuel giant Woodside is one step closer to being granted a 50-year extension for its gas processing facility in the Pilbara after the Western Australian Environment Protection Authority (EPA) dismissed appeals arguing it should be stopped on climate science and cultural grounds. Greenpeace...