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.

The government is preparing a “network management plan” for marine parks stretching from Byron Bay to Batemans Bay, stoking fears from advocates of both conservation and recreational fishing about the possible outcomes.

With governments around the world declaring hydrogen to be central to the future, an Australian firm is developing the first domestic hydrogen products.

In an open letter to the Berejiklian government, the association says TransGrid should have detailed other options in its EIS to the building of two giant overhead transmission lines.

The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting a severe heatwave to set in over Friday to Sunday with extreme conditions expected in some areas along the NSW coast.

Hundreds of forestry jobs are at "imminent" risk because of the lack of available timber following last summer's bushfires, the state-owned logging company warned in a letter to the environmental watchdog.

Alpine cattle graziers and environmentalists form an unlikely alliance in a bid to stop logging in Victoria’s high country.

The NSW SES received more than 1100 calls for help on Thursday, as the big wet brings flash-flooding, landslips and hazardous surf alerts.

The publication of the state’s new koala habitat policy has revealed a senior regional NSW official has the right to reject management plans by councils.

More than 75 organisations and individuals have signed an open letter calling on the Ross Trust to withdraw its plans to expand its quarry on the Mornington Peninsula and destroy bushland.

A three-day burst of rain from Thursday is likely to be the wettest for Sydney since at least last July, with up to 100 millimetres expected on Saturday.

When a critically endangered bird starts to lose its birdsong, conservationists know the species is in even more dire straits than its dwindling numbers suggest.

The City of Sydney will spend $377 million over the next decade to boost tree cover, adding about 700 trees a year to parks, lanes and roads.