The Federal Government is believed to have made a bid to give UNESCO World Heritage Status to the Burrup Peninsula. The bid comes as Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek is weighing up a number of major fossil fuel and resources developments in the area, including Woodside's North West Shelf and...

Resources Minister Madeleine King has urged mining and gas companies to get behind the Indigenous Voice to parliament, saying they have a unique responsibility to correct the wrongs of the past. King said the resources sector had made “extraordinary and devastating mistakes” in their interactions...

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was carried away and detained by police in the German village of Lutzerath. She and other demonstrators had been blocking the front of a coal mine to oppose its expansion and didn’t leave after the police had asked them to.

Scientists have warned that early forecasts suggest the El Niño weather phenomenon will return later in 2023, exacerbating extreme weather around the globe and making it “very likely” the world will exceed 1.5C of warming. 

The goal of limiting global heating to 1.5C is “gasping for breath”, the UN secretary-general has said as he announced a “climate ambition summit” for September. António Guterres said the summit would challenge leaders of governments and businesses to come up with “new, tangible and credible...

Labor and the Greens have secured a package of support to switch to high-quality electric appliances that will lower power bills for people, including low and middle-income households and renters, stated Greens leader Adam Bandt last night. Today parliament reconvenes for an urgent sitting to rein...

For decades, "natural gas" has sold itself to families as the fastest, most-efficient way to cook. But now there's a battle for your kitchen stove, and a push to get you to embrace electric for your health and for the planet. A coalition of chefs, doctors, climate scientists and real estate...

Temperatures in Europe have increased at more than twice the global average in the last 30 years, according to a report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Europe is a 'live picture of a warming world', says the organisation and commented that even well-prepared societies are not safe...

Australia’s biggest climate polluter AGL has announced it will bring forward the closure of its dirty coal-burning power station Loy Yang A by a decade as part of its strategic review - five years beyond what the science calls for but a significant step forward for a company that planned to burn...

The Investor Group on Climate Change has released its policy priorities report for 2022-2025, outlining key areas for reform that would align Australia’s emissions target to the Paris goal of limiting warming to 1.5C and ensure the country was able to manage an “orderly” retreat from coal.