Australians installed solar panels on their roofs at a record rate last month, soaring almost half as much as the same month a year earlier.

Australia's former foreign affairs minister writes that climate change has not paused for coronavirus; we will pretend it has at our peril.

Intense heatwave conditions are forecast this week, but 'it's not so much how hot will it get, as how cool won't it get.'

Australia, with its enormous sunny interior, could be the world leader in the development of synthetic kerosene and capture the market.

Preliminary analysis by Birdlife Australia has found 19 bird species around the country have lost more than half their habitat in this summer's unprecedented fire season.

What is our part in solving a problem that is, by its nature, global?

Temperatures will hover in the mid-20s over the entire long weekend but people with breathing issues should be "vigilant" warns the bureau.

Back then, before Black Saturday, we were innocents in the bush.

Australia's huge bushfires are forecast to help drive global atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide to one of the fastest annual increases on record.

The Doomsday Clock has moved forward to 100 seconds to midnight - but this is a publicity stunt, not an actual scientific measurement.

Scott Morrison needs to raise Australia's long-term emissions targets to be aligned with Liberal states and conservative governments overseas, writes the director of the Grattan Institute’s energy program, a former executive at Origin Energy.

The threat of mass fish kills is emerging across the river system as ashy sludge with "the consistency of cake mix" moves downstream.

Australians are looking to the government to take national and global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and stop the terrifying advance of climate change.

Sydney and NSW's year included dust storms, diving dam levels, heatwaves, fish kills and the eruption of mega bushfires and incessant smoke haze.

Watering with a bucket forces you to choose which plants to save and which plants to kill.

Fausta, a female black rhino, died of natural causes while in a refuge in the Ngorongoro Crater.

A southerly wind change will bring cool air late on New Year's Eve and into the first morning of 2020.

Plastic microfibres from clothing have found their way into fish ... and into humans who eat fish.

Are sharks blood-crazed man-eaters, or more like curious dogs? Before you go back in the water, try looking at yourself through the eyes of a great white.

The pond will eventually re-fill but it will take years for the ecosystem to recover.

Sydney will experience a comfortable 29 degree day but temperatures across western Sydney and on the city's fringe are likely to top 35 degrees.

48 walkers booked into cabins doesn't sound like the bushwalking I'm used to. But it may help save our national parks - if we can change our ways.

Residents in south-west Sydney have been warned to look out for a hungry boa after the snake's freshly shed skin was found on a construction site. 

Australia faces an increased risk of heatwaves and bushfires this summer, particularly in dry eastern regions, with conditions worsened by the deepening drought.

Miriam Vale, which was close to running out of water, enjoyed the highest falls in Queensland overnight.