A report into government appointments to boards savages the system, which it says too often allows governments to award friends or pick candidates for political purposes, eroding trust with the public...

Experts lay out scale of changes needed in ‘first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing’ in Westminster

Scientists sounded the alarm on the dire consequences of continued inaction at a briefing in London, warning that we could be heading for "unprecedented societal and ecological collapse"

After years of failed attempts, Australia’s environmental laws are finally getting an overhaul. But will they stop the damage done to nature?

Australia is the land of the parrot — few places in the world have such a dazzling array of colourful and clever members of the psittacine family.

Plans are afoot to expand the shuttered Ravensthorpe nickel operation while the battery metal’s price remains in the doldrums.

One Nation leader suspended for seven days after members of Labor, Greens and crossbench vote to censure Pauline Hanson has been censured by the Senate after her burqa stunt on Tuesday, suspended from the chamber for seven days for refusing to apologise, and will be barred from representing the parliament in overseas delegations. In an overwhelming show of opposition to the repeat of her 2017 stunt, members of Labor, the Coalition, the Greens and crossbench voted for the censure motion. Only Hanson, her three fellow One Nation senators, and United Australia senator Ralph Babet opposed it. Continue reading...

Australia’s environmental management framework is undergoing a timely review to overhaul the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). The government’s proposed reforms...

Feral cats are already caught and killed in some areas but will now be subject to coordinated targeting, with large-scale eradication programs

Study estimates 53,000 females have died on South Georgia since 2023, with ‘dramatic impact’ on future of the species

One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out

One expert says she is ‘starting to visualise the point where all we have left of corals and reefs is memories’

Decision announced at Cop30 climate conference signposts risks for Australia’s reliance on fossil fuel exports, analysts say

Despite the Coalition’s decision reversal on net zero, the momentum on the clean energy transition is unstoppable.

Labor’s long-awaited environmental reforms do represent progress. But ambition levels have been dialled back and much depends on the detail.

A deadly tornado tore through a state in southern Brazil, killing at least six people and injuring more than 400 others, local authorities said.

Everyone is talking about ‘net zero emissions’—but what exactly does that mean, why do we want to achieve it, and how do we get there by 2050?

In the year of nineteen thirty-two, when soldiers yearned for glory past, Their khaki creased with Empire’s pride, their bullets forged to last, They faced no foe from foreign land, no sabres from the...

Recent record-breaking ocean temperatures have killed off so many elkhorn and staghorn corals, they are on the verge of disappearing completely, scientists have found.