Lightweight, but also strong and easy to work with, timber enables faster construction times.

National weather forecast for Thursday June 5.

Unlike efforts to recycle soft plastics, container deposit schemes have been a success across Australia, with billions of bottles recycled.

It’s peak hour on the humpback highway off the east coast of Australia – yet other whale species aren’t doing nearly as well.

How different species move around the oceans.

The humpback highway and other migratory whale routes.

National weather forecast for Wednesday June 4.

A new body stacked with shooters would push for more access to public land, under a proposal being considered by the NSW government.

National weather forecast for Tuesday June 3.

National weather forecast for Monday June 2.

Calling itself Blockade Australia, the group claims to be concerned not just about climate change but about the “colonial and extractive systems of Australia”.

More than 30 mayors and councillors across Australia say they are “exhausted by the immediate costs and challenges” of recent natural disasters and have written to the government calling for stronger climate action.

Rivers and water catchments across the state’s east coast have not had enough time to dry out since the recent flood emergency, says the weather bureau’s senior meteorologist.

Destruction of more than 200,000 hectares of threatened species habitat has been approved by the federal government in the past decade, a report shows.

Antonio Guterres says the “naive optimism” of the Glasgow talks is colliding with a failure to deal with climate, as scientists grapple with global heat waves.