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 ...

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

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 ...

There’s a reason political commentators refer to Australia’s “climate wars”. Every time a climate policy is put on the table, supporters and opponents come out in force and duke it out. Last year, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two images claimed to show Australia's Barrenjoey Peninsula almost a century apart are being held up online as evidence that ...

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 ...

The tide has turned on the conservation success story of the southern right whale. Once considered a global conservation ...

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 ...