Drought and climate change have already had an impact, and worse is to come.

Sydney is in for a relatively damp and dull weekend, briefly snapping the city's spell of sunny and dry mid-autumn days.

These orang-utans boast genetic, skeletal and tooth differences from the two other species.

Fallout from plan to protect wild horses in NSW's largest national park begins, with an ecologist quitting a key panel citing a "wilful disregard" for science.

Emission cuts must be much deeper or the world will have to begin costly direct removal of carbon to avoid dangerous climate change, a new study finds.

A warmer winter and more of the wet stuff is on the way.

We feel the temptation of universal cheap goods as a right, but the environment pays the cost.

Fallout from plan to protect wild horses in NSW's largest national park begins, with an ecologist quitting a key panel citing a "wilful disregard" for science.

The Berejiklian government said it was investigating a big irrigator on the Barwon-Darling River last June but farmer says he only found out last week.

An Australian father and son have written about their life in Indian slums and the importance of a low carbon footprint

We feel the temptation of universal cheap goods as a right, but the environment pays the cost.

Humans can have more empathy for dogs than their two-legged friends, a new study suggests.

Fallout from plan to protect wild horses in NSW's largest national park begins, with an ecologist quitting a key panel citing a "wilful disregard" for science.

Reef rehabilitation was not an obvious endeavour for a young woman growing up in inland Canberra.

The government's plan to extend protection to feral horses in the Kosciuszko National Park has exposed fissures within the Greens, while generating 'disquiet' among Liberal MPs.

In a bid to push the major parties to embrace deeper cuts to Australia's greenhouse gas emissions, the Greens have targeted net zero emissions by 2035.

Some will no doubt say that if you charge an EV from renewable sources the emissions are zero.

The government's plan to extend protection to feral horses in the Kosciuszko National Park has exposed fissures within the Greens, while generating 'disquiet' among Liberal MPs.

Senior officials considering lending public money to develop Australia's biggest coal mine have known for months of environmental and financial problems surrounding the proponent Adani, internal emails reveal.

Deep in a tropical rain forest, during a time when dinosaurs walked the earth, four tiny spiders crawled down a tree, got stuck in some sticky resin and never climbed up again.

Much of coastal NSW from the south of Sydney to the Victorian border will face the wrath of a complex low-pressure system that will bring heavy rain, hazardous surf and even flash flooding in places.

Researchers aboard an Australian ship undertaking pioneering work in the Southern Ocean have found the "first hint" of a shift.

Not one, not two but up to 80 quolls have been born at Mulligans Flat in Canberra's north.

The number of countries in which greenhouse gases has peaked continues to rise, representing a "critical turning point" in the task of curbing climate change, according to a report by the World Resources Institute.

Deep in a tropical rain forest, during a time when dinosaurs walked the earth, four tiny spiders crawled down a tree, got stuck in some sticky resin and never climbed up again.