For the first time, global warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year, according to the EU's climate service. Global temperatures through January were the warmest on record at 1.66C above pre-industrial levels. The temporary breach has sounded the alarm for more government and industry action...

The Queensland government has approved the mega Winchester South coal mine project which environmentalists say poses unacceptable threats to the human rights of Queenslanders. The project will now go for federal approval, where it could become the biggest coal mine to be given the green light since...

Sea sponge records going back around 300 years suggest that the Earth is already 1.7 degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial era. The new research predicts that global average surface temperatures could be 2C warmer by 2030,much sooner than previously thought, but not all climate scientists...

Palau has become the first nation to officially approve and sanction the UN High Seas Treaty at the UN headquarters in New York, with Chile now soon to follow after its Senate voted unanimously in favour of ratifying the historic conservation agreement. Together, they are the first two of the 60...

Greenpeace Australia Pacific has filed a lawsuit against fossil fuel giant Woodside in the Federal Court of Australia. The case could see Woodside held to account for allegedly misleading and/or deceiving the Australian public about the enormous climate harm of its gas and oil projects. If...

Pressure is mounting near the end of the first week of the UN negotiations hosted by the oil-rich UAE, with Europe's climate monitor confirming that 2023 will be the hottest year in recorded history. The fate of oil, gas and coal -- the main drivers of human-caused planet heating -- has been the...

Woodside Energy has once again been given the all-clear to carry out seismic testing for its massive Scarborough project off the Pilbara coast after an earlier approval was ruled invalid by the Federal Court. Greenpeace Australia Pacific senior campaigner Sophie McNeill says the organisation is...

A historic moment has opened the COP28 summit in Dubai, with 200 nations agreeing to launch a fund to support countries hit the hardest by climate change. 

The federal government is massively expanding a taxpayer-funded scheme to subsidise and underwrite new renewable energy projects, in an admission that Australia is not currently on track to reach its 2030 target for the power grid.

Western Australia’s premier has claimed at a WA energy transition summit that expanding the state’s gas industry – and increasing its greenhouse gas pollution in the short term – will be good for the planet as it will lead to a “dramatic reduction” in global emissions. Yet, the state government has...