A two-day hearing aimed at stopping Woodside’s destructive Scarborough gas project is expected to get underway in WA today with a conservation group arguing the decision to approve the project is unlawful because pollution and environmental harm from greenhouse gas emissions was not properly...

Our new federal environment minister will today release a sweeping report on the state of the environment that will show it is in bad shape and getting worse because of factors including climate change, habitat loss, invasive species, mining and pollution. No wonder the previous government didn’t...

The path to Australia’s clean energy future is clear and we must act now as the Australian Energy Market Operator releases its 30-year electricity market roadmap, calling for more than $12 billion of investment in new transmission lines to begin "as urgently as possible" as part of a transition to...

A legal bid to halt the toxic Scarborough gas development in WA is underway, arguing the impact of the project’s emissions on the Great Barrier Reef will be significant and should be assessed under national environment law.

Labor will today announce an additional $194 million over four years to protect the Great Barrier Reef, with the funding to include reducing plastic pollution and installing real time sensors to study changes in temperature. But the party’s emissions reduction target of 43 per cent by 2030 fails to...

A whistleblower who spent years working on the Australian government’s carbon credit scheme has described the system as a “rort” that hurts the environment and has wasted more than $1 billion in taxpayer funding. 

Greenpeace activists and volunteers have rallied in Brisbane to send a message to a UN mission in Queensland to assess the health of the Great Barrier Reef amid concerns over political interference in the trip and a lack of access for independent voices, including communities.

UN boss Antonio Guterres has warned the goal to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees is in “intensive care” and laid the blame at the feet of wealthy nations, singling out Australia for its poor emissions reduction target. 

On Friday the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park confirmed that the Reef has experienced its sixth mass coral bleaching event, on the eve of a UNESCO mission to monitor the Reef’s health. The Federal Government has been furiously lobbying to prevent the Reef from being listed by UNESCO as “World...

In a decision that broke the hearts of people all over the world, the Federal Court has overturned a landmark decision that Environment Minister Sussan Ley has a duty of care to protect young people from the impacts of climate change when assessing fossil fuel projects.