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25 years ago, the Herald reported on a comprehensive climate change study that found "the warming is real" and more dramatic than previous estimates.

Young people from drought-affected communities have gathered to talk about solutions.

The Radiata Plateau, 300 hectares of Blue Mountains bushland, will be be incorporated into the NSW national park reserve system.

Police took the Extinction Rebellion protesters into custody one-by-one as they staged a sit in on Broadway, near Railway Square in Ultimo, while onlookers cheered.

Volkswagen named 67 people it believed were involved in the 2015 emissions cheating scandal that rocked the industry in documents for now-settled Australian class actions.

The news got just a little happier this week for an elephant who has been kept in captivity in a New York zoo for four decades.

Sir David Attenborough has compared changing attitudes over plastic to the abolition of slavery, as he claimed 20 years of warnings about the issue had gone unheard.

Chinese engineer and academic Peggy Liu says Australia should closely question decisions to invest hundreds of million of dollars in new mines.

A 13-year-old schoolboy is slowly capturing the eco-ideas of his generation and asking his parent's generation to open the doors to new ideas to reduce plastic.

A stoush is looming in the multi-billion dollar recycling industry with the NSW government expected to make permanent a ban on the use of organic waste as fertiliser for farming.

38 landholders will enter into new conservation pacts that will protect more than 9300 hectares of environmentally significant land, including koala habitat.

The British ban on elephant ivory  is killing hippos, conservationists say, as poachers and hunters take advantage of a loophole in the new law.

Technology developed in NSW to convert waste plastics into reusable materials such as fuel  could be commercialised overseas or interstate first because of "massive" hurdles facing such firms in the state, the co-inventor of the pioneering process says.

Danish scientist Mette Bendixen thinks the island could become a global provider of sand, which is being released in large quantities as its glaciers recede.

As veganism gains in popularity, it has also become more political, sparking a struggle between moderates and zero-tolerance purists.

Professor Geoffrey Blainey is no stranger to controversy. Now he's challenging the view that today's climate change is either unique or largely the result of human behaviour.

Since keen birdwatchers are active along coastlines around the world, they can supply information that would otherwise be costly and difficult to gather, researchers say.

A Nationals minister has admitted personally phoning a government agency that was investigating potentially illegal land clearing on her property, according to documents released to Parliament.

Clearing for pastures or crops doubled in two years - and tripled in four - as farmers in NSW took advantage of weaker conservation rules.

The English elm planted in Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens in 1851 by Victoria's first lieutenant-governor, Charles La Trobe, has been given a new lease on life.

The EPA will split its most senior role into two, more than four years after an upper house inquiry into the agency made such a move its top recommendation.

The NSW Audit Office has issued a scathing assessment of the Berejiklian government's reform of the native vegetation laws.

Karanganyar plans to end its brutal dog meat trade following a shocking investigation in neighbouring Surakarta.

Subsidies for coal-fired power production almost tripled in the three years to 2016-17 among G20 nations, with Australia providing among the largest support, an international study has found.