A week after the NSW Agriculture Minister released the highly critical secret review of the new laws by the Natural Resources Commission the government has responded.

With the key Glasgow conference on emissions postponed and its venue turned into a field hospital, what now for international efforts to tackle climate change?

Melting ice shelves, surging visitor numbers and geopolitical wrangling made the past year a turbulent one for Antarctica – which is also dealing with what some are calling “climate strange”.

Heavy rainfall, damaging winds and hail will threaten large parts of the state across Friday night and Saturday morning.

A coalition of farming, land management and conservation groups is calling on Canberra and the states to back a package that could open up 24,000 rural jobs in a post-coronavirus world.