Cold conditions could prove to be a washout for the school holiday makers despite “unbelievable” warmth in the West.
Nathan Schmidt
Indigenous rangers are using ancient tracking techniques and modern technology to find native animals after developing bilingual training resources.
Rudi Maxwell
The first fire ants detection has been made in the Murray Darling Basin, fuelling calls for an urgent funding review for eradication efforts.
Tracey Ferrier
The body of a 16-year-old boy who was missing has been found after he was attacked by a crocodile while trying to swim to shore.
Aisling Brennan
A parliamentary inquiry has recommended a fresh review of efforts to eradicate fire ants, including whether the cash promised so far will get the job done.
A bid for a multimillion-dollar development on an internationally protected wetland has been canned after the government indicated it would not back the plan.
Fraser Barton
The recent extreme heat that hit West Africa will become much more common without greater global efforts to reduce planet-warming emissions, a report warns.
Boureima Balima and Abdel-Kader Mazou
The makers of GLAD garbage bags have been taken court for claims it mislead consumers over how much of its bin liners were made from recycled ocean plastic.
Andrew Brown
WA’s environmental adjudicator has been bombarded with hundreds of submissions demanding high-level scrutiny of Chalice Mining’s proposed nickel-copper-platinum elements mine north of Perth.
Simone Grogan
Queenslanders should prepare themselves for more wet weather with heavy rainfall and large hail predicted to hit parts of the state.
Lily McCaffrey
SA Water has declared "full steam ahead" for a critical water project on the Eyre Peninsula, despite concerns it will impact Aboriginal heritage and fishing.
Jacob Shteyman
NATURE POSITIVE: The man behind the Albanese Government’s environmental law re-write has quoted Mark Twain by saying reports of the controversial reforms being killed off are ‘greatly exaggerated’.
Adrian Rauso
Ecologists are celebrating the birth of four western quolls at a Wheatbelt wildlife sanctuary as their discovery marks the first of its kind in 100 years.
Qantas has taken a foundation stake in a consortium hoping to recycle materials for new planes from the world’s ever-growing aircraft graveyards.
Neale Prior
Time may be running out to protect the Great Barrier Reef which is suffering one of its most extensive coral bleaching events after a horror summer.
Keira Jenkins and Laine Clark
It was in 1971, more than 50 years ago, when one of Australia’s first state-based Environmental Protection Authority was created — in Western Australia.
Tanya Plibersek
The Federal Government’s promised re-write of environmental protection laws has been put on the back burner in a win for miners and a blow to green groups
Dan Jervis-Bardy, Josh Zimmerman and Katina Curtis
Aussies can breathe a sigh of relief as the Bureau of Meteorology declares El Nino has officially ended. Here’s why.
Archaeologists believe they have discovered a Tasmanian Devil tooth in a trove of objects at the site of the Juukan Gorge rock cave detonated by Rio Tinto in 2020.
Matt Mckenzie
A national environment watchdog and data agency have been announced as part of the federal government's attempt to boost accountability and transparency.
Kat Wong
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has put contentious parts of her promised nature laws overhaul on the backburner.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Labor's new environment watchdog has gotten a lukewarm reception from conservationists who argue it must be backed up by law reform to stop mass extinctions.
Scientists, environmentalists, irrigators, community and government representatives will meet to discuss the health of Australia's largest river system.
Liv Casben
Communities should be given the right to appeal the merits of federal government approvals for environmentally damaging projects, legal experts say.