The Victorian government has extended its regional forest agreements allowing logging of native forests but will preserve habitat trees.

The Victorian government has extended its regional forest agreements allowing logging of native forests but will preserve habitat trees.

AGL is sticking with plans to replace its Liddell station with other energy sources including pumped hydro, dismissing a Chinese offer for the ailing plant.

AGL is sticking with plans to replace its Liddell station with other energy sources including pumped hydro, dismissing a Chinese offer for the ailing plant.

A NSW upper house inquiry has opposed approval of a giant waste-to-energy incinerator planned for Sydney's west.

A NSW upper house inquiry has opposed approval of a giant waste-to-energy incinerator planned for Sydney's west.

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.

The idea of burning waste for energy is gaining traction in Australia. But is it really a safe solution?

The remnants of ex-tropical cyclone Iris are a few hundred kilometres northeast of Fraser Island, moving slowly southwesterly towards the coast.

NSW sends a million tonnes of waste a year to Queensland and landfills are filling up. But it wouldn't respond to questions from Queensland officials about it.

Temperatures in Sydney's CBD reached 29 degrees on Friday, preceding an unusually warm start to April.

Three Japanese whaling ships return to their home port with 333 minke whales following a hunting trip to Antarctica that attracted international condemnation.

Approvals to convert contaminated land to housing or other uses face a "major deviation" from decades-old standards, the audit industry warns.

The house on the corner of our street had huge, rounded, drooping pepper trees growing in the chook yard and hanging over the dirt footpath.

Calls for greater openness over a $1.2b coal mine are mounting after the government admitted it had taken more than two years to make a key decision.

The traditional US food industry may want to head the idea off at the pass, but "meat" derived from plants is growing in popularity.

The state - and Australia as a whole - is off to one of its warmest starts to any year.

The state - and Australia as a whole - is off to one of its warmest starts to any year.

Kai George and two friends were involved in a four-hour struggle with the shark that towed his boat 4.2 kilometres and that they released after taking photos.

Put away the umbrella - unless it's a parasol - because a burst of heat is headed for some of Australia's most populated regions.

A burst of heat from inland Australia will sweep across the south-east in coming days, challenging records for this late in the year, meteorologists said.

'Sealvester' delighted local residents for two weeks, but a health condition caught up with him and he passed away.

Prince Charles is calling for the Great Barrier Reef to be at the heart of plans for a new "blue economy" that seeks to harness the world's oceans for economic growth.

Sydney is expected to have a taste of summer-like weather in the week ahead.

The Berejiklian government has shifted some regulatory oversight for native forestry on private land away from the EPA, a move opponents say further undermine biodiversity safeguards in the state.