Environmentalists are up in arms over the Australian government’s apparent backsliding on its “net zero by 2050” commitments and the interim targets it set. Although the government hasn’t formally ...

Climate change is now officially sending animals to extinction. The Bramble Cay melomys, a rodent found on a tiny island off Australia's far north coast and the only mammal native to the Great Barrier ...

Imagine replanting various native species only to have them die because the area is too hot or too dry. Or reconnecting woodland habitat only to lose large tracts to bushfire. Well, our new research ...

New research has found that even Australia's most protected marine habitats are likely to suffer extreme ocean impacts by 2040, increasing threats to thousands of plant and animal species. Subscribe ...

Etched onto rocks on a remote peninsula in Western Australia are millions of images drawn tens of thousands of years ago by the country’s original inhabitants, including the earliest known depictions ...

Sept. 15 (UPI) --More than 1.5 million Australians will be at risk from sea level rise by 2050, amid an uncertain future in which climate change will make extreme weather events both more frequent and ...

A One Nation politician has claimed strong scientific consensus on global warming was being used as a “political tool” when ...

July 15 (UPI) --An Australian federal court ruled Tuesday that Indigenous residents of the Torres Strait Islands are not owed environmental protections from the nation's government. Justice Michael ...

Steve Hatfield-Dodds is head of research for the EY Net Zero Centre. As EY-Parthenon Strategy’s Chief Climate Economics and Policy Officer (Oceania) he advises not-for-profits, businesses, and ...

In just four days, one-third of the population of Tuvalu entered a ballot for a new permanent visa to Australia. While the visa itself doesn’t mention climate change, the treaty that created it is ...

BELEM, Brazil — Turkey will host next year’s annual U.N. climate talks but Australia will preside over the discussions under a compromise in which Australia withdrew from the running to be the venue, ...