Two emperor penguins in Antarctica captured a short video of themselves after coming across a camera left on the ice by a human.

The Berejiklian government's new land-clearing laws have been thrown into disarray after a court found ministers had failed to follow due process.

Victoria’s state-owned forestry corporation has been charged with illegal logging of a rainforest in East Gippsland after a near two-year investigation.

Federal Labor have attacked the NSW government for deliberately holding back details of a damning report before a key vote on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

The first legal actions over water use breaches in NSW have begun just as the Ombudsman was about to table in Parliament a report critical of the government.

The head of the state's new Independent Planning Commission wants more transparency so the process can be 'interrogated and trusted'.

About 2000 people a year have 'primary contact' with wastewater from the three untreated discharge points.

Plans to convert a defence site into a freight hub in Sydney's south-west can proceed provided a plant not seen in almost 200 years is protected.

Stockland, one of Australia's biggest developers, is adding the equivalent of nine rugby fields of solar panels to shopping centre roofs.

Australia’s entire system of “yellow-lid bin” kerbside recycling is threatened by China’s clampdown on imported recyclables, officials are told during crisis talks with the waste industry.

Taking to their local parks and waterways on Sunday, Clean Up Australia Day volunteers picked up more than 15,000 tonnes of rubbish.

The ailing state of the Darling River has been quietly traced to man-made water extraction, according to the Murray-Darling Basin Authority's own report.

Up to 1000 pieces of rubbish occupy each kilometre of Australian coastline, statistics from the Australian Marine Debris Initiative Database show.

The Berejiklian government has marked exactly a year since public submissions closed for its NSW Koala Strategy.

Document reveals for the first time what the government's own modelling of land-clearing law changes predicted for the state's native vegetation.

They invade our homes and can, depending on the species, deliver a painful bite, yet there is much to admire about ants, not least their complex societal ways.

Australian and US scientists - with US defence funding - have big plans for six islands in WA. But is gene technology a safe way to beat invasive species?

Sydney got past the big dry 10 years ago, but some suburbs fare better than others.

A large water buyback when Barnaby Joyce was agriculture minister raises 'serious questions', says Rex Patrick, a Nick Xenophon Team senator.

Sydney got past the big dry 10 years ago, but some suburbs fare better than others.

Sydney got past the big dry 10 years ago, but some suburbs fare better than others.

Coral reefs could start to dissolve as man-made climate change drives acidification of the oceans, scientists say.

Coral reefs could start to dissolve as man-made climate change drives acidification of the oceans, scientists say.

Electric vehicles will not be a silver bullet as the ACT looks to cut transport emissions after 2020.

Sydney's long, hot summer looks set to leave with a sizzle and a sting in its tail.