A Unesco monitoring trip to the Great Barrier Reef will land in Queensland later this month just as forecasts suggest the risk of widespread coral bleaching will be at its highest.

The Australian government attempted to water down language around the health of the Reef in the latest IPCC report, pushing to include wording that the reef was “not yet in crisis” where the final report included a section headed “The Great Barrier Reef in Crisis”. 

In the wake of the alarming findings for the Great Barrier Reef contained in the latest IPCC report, Whitsundays dive operator Tony Fontes warns that the Morrison government is a world leader in climate failure and despite pledging one billion dollars to the Reef, that money is about as useless as...

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, published overnight, makes for grim reading with scientists confident the world will surpass 1.5 degrees of heating before 2040, leading to irreversible climate impacts including the loss and degradation of much of the world’s...

The Greens have revealed a $19 billion plan to subsidise coal workers under the rapid transition away from coal, offering to underwrite half their wage for a decade to prevent Australia "sleepwalking into the closure of the coal industry".

The Morrison Government has claimed its management of the Reef is “second to none” in a report to the UN, which has been dubbed “a stunning work of spin” that “reeks of hypocrisy” without rapidly reducing emissions. 

With the Great Barrier Reef on the cusp of a fourth mass bleaching in six years, a new study reveals that only 0.2 percent of coral reefs globally are likely to avoid frequent heat stress if temperatures rise. Our politicians have long known that climate change is the number one threat to our...

The Morrison Government is pledging $1 billion for Great Barrier Reef conservation projects over the next decade, just days before Australia is due to send a report to Unesco about the state of the Reef and its plans to protect it. 

Towns across Western Australia have recorded some of the hottest weather ever recorded in the country, while the east coast prepares for heavy rains, humid nights and the after-effects of an ex-tropical cyclone. 

A new report by a leading climate change expert has found that proposed gas development in the Lake Eyre Basin could increase Australia's total annual emissions by 60 per centInvestor groups have warned the EU against labelling gas investments as ‘green’Record ocean temperatures continue to drive...