Australia’s coal miners and gas producers are facing sharp falls in commodity prices this year, ending their extraordinary run of record profits, as a historic global supply crunch continues to ease and an economic slowdown dampens demand.

There she blows: Mega Southern Ocean wind farm zone unveiledAbout 200 kilometres of Southern Ocean coastline could be unlocked to become an offshore wind farm zone stretching from Warrnambool in Victoria to Port MacDonnell in South Australia – potentially creating 3000 ongoing jobs in the region....

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.

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...

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...

More than 500 common species of fish, seaweed, coral and invertebrates that live on reefs around Australia have declined in the past decade, a study has found, as experts warn “not all is well in the ocean”. Global heating was likely the main driver of the falls, with marine heatwaves and a rise in...

Minister for Climate Change Chris Bowen has again called for the Greens to support the government’s reforms to the safeguard mechanism, but flat-out rejected the party’s calls to ban new coal and gas. However Greens leader, Adam Bandt, claims the party has already made major compromises by offering...

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has blocked Clive Palmer’s coal mine near the Great Barrier Reef, marking the first time that a coal mine has been rejected under national environmental laws. 

A toxic, derelict steel tower used by Woodside to produce oil is slowly sinking and risks ending up on the seabed near Western Australia’s Ningaloo Reef after shoddy maintenance delayed its removal for four years.

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.