Samoa’s prime minister has issued a desperate plea for action, calling for the world to save the people of the Pacific from climate disaster. The plea comes on the eve of a landmark report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is expected to deliver a scientific “final warning” on...

The first stage of the New England Solar Farm - which will be the biggest solar farm in Australia - has been officially opened and will be operating at its full capacity of up to 400MW within months. 

Western Australia's environmental watchdog has raised concerns Woodside doesn't plan to reduce emissions fast enough at its Pluto gas facility on the Burrup Peninsula, while calling for an urgent inquiry to ensure the facility’s emissions don’t accelerate the weathering of World-Heritage-nominated...

Independent MPs are pushing the government to include an 'absolute cap' or an explicit objective that emissions must come down under the safeguard mechanism. MPs Allegra Spender, Zali Steggall and senator David Pocock are calling on Labor to limit total emissions up until 2030. 

Environmental advocates have blasted Queensland’s emission target as “inadequate” and lagging behind other states, with the Greens preparing to introduce a bill that would more than double the current benchmark.

Australian companies have been ranked for the first time on how clean their vehicle fleets are, with Greenpeace Australia Pacific’s Electrify Fleets Rankings revealing IKEA has assembled the greenest fleet while Avis, Myer, David Jones, and JB Hi-Fi fall to the bottom of the pack. 

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has quietly approved a Santos gas expansion in Queensland, which will operate until 2077 and has documented public concerns over threatened species and impact on water resources. 

Safety concerns have yet again forced regulators to step in at Santos’ Pilbara operations, with 10 gas platforms in a state of dangerous disrepair and evidence the company had identified problems but done little to fix them. 

A young dolphin has been found dead, deeply entangled in a NSW Government-owned shark net off Bronte Beach in Sydney over the weekend, prompting renewed calls to ban the devices. A review of the state's shark net program concluded that of the 300 animals caught in its 51 shark nets during the...

A Santos employee has accused the Australian oil and gas company of covering up the extent of an oil spill he says killed dolphins off the Western Australian coast last year. The claims were tabled by independent Senator David Pocock in federal parliament on Thursday. Greenpeace Australia Pacific...