Calling itself Blockade Australia, the group claims to be concerned not just about climate change but about the “colonial and extractive systems of Australia”.

More than 30 mayors and councillors across Australia say they are “exhausted by the immediate costs and challenges” of recent natural disasters and have written to the government calling for stronger climate action.

Rivers and water catchments across the state’s east coast have not had enough time to dry out since the recent flood emergency, says the weather bureau’s senior meteorologist.

Destruction of more than 200,000 hectares of threatened species habitat has been approved by the federal government in the past decade, a report shows.

Antonio Guterres says the “naive optimism” of the Glasgow talks is colliding with a failure to deal with climate, as scientists grapple with global heat waves.

The fresh concerns come as nine Lismore residents have dumped flood-affected household items outside Kirribilli House and called on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to act on climate change.

Kylie McKendry loves cats, but she doesn’t want her six-year-old chocolate Burmese cat, Marla, to bring home any injured or dead wildlife. Instead, McKendry has installed an outdoor enclosure that her cat roams around. 

There are more than 4000 uninhabitable homes across NSW as people begin to wonder what to do amid the mammoth clean-up effort.

Two major industry groups are asking the Australian and Queensland governments to financially support flood mitigation projects in the Greater Brisbane region that have been proven to work since the 2011 floods.

Sometime before dawn on Monday, February 27, Aiden Ricketts’ neighbours began to cry for help.

The Berejiklian government will significantly boost spending to remediate the state’s disused mine sites in a move welcomed by environmentalists and the mining industry alike.

One of Australia’s largest private irrigators is being investigated over the conversion of part of a wetland swamp into a dam that has diverted water from a major creek system to supply nearby farms.

NSW will join other states in promoting multi-day walks in popular national parks, with the government tipping in $80 million to ease access to destinations with a growing global profile.

Australian houses might not be built for cold weather, but with careful use of common appliances you can heat the home and save the planet and the gas bill.

Where is the Prime Minister on electric vehicle policy?

The elderly are heading up north, and we have only their Instagram posts to warm us.

The pandemic delayed the global climate summit until November this year - one of the most fortuitous postponements in history.

Hume Coal’s mine and rail project applications have been referred back to the Independent Planning Commission for a public hearing and determination within 12 weeks.

Federal Water Minister Keith Pitt says the government remains determined to build new dams in the Murray-Darling Basin, rejecting comments from a leading researcher that climate change would reduce the likelihood that they would fill. 

The options, from building levees to dredging the Hawkesbury-Nepean River or releasing water ahead of big rain events, were detailed in submissions developed in 2014 and 2015 and provided to cabinet, according to internal documents.

The gardens, established by the river by Governor Gipps in 1846, have celebrations and surprises in store for visitors this year

Bitcoin provokes intense debate but one thing everyone agrees on is that it has become a staggering producer of climate wrecking carbon dioxide.

When Steve Douglas drove by a neighbourhood street corner, he spotted a new and rare species of eucalyptus tree. After 25 years, more than a hundred of these trees are being planted in a secret location in a national park.

The upper house has rejected the scheme to license irrigators’ extraction during floods while a federal agency has dismissed the government’s river plans.

Shy dugongs, sea turtles and ancient microbes are all found among our seagrasses and mangroves. Why are politicians interested in these ocean meadows now?