She is probably the only internet sensation in Harpursville, New York, a hamlet of about 3500 people in the Southern Tier region: April, a very pregnant giraffe, whose livestream video has attracted millions of viewers.

Colin Warwick, 70, appeared at Downing Centre District Court on Monday charged with one count of exporting regulated native species and five other counts of attempting to export the lizards between 2018 and 2019.

The great bulk of Australia's largest listed companies are failing to disclose their exposures to climate change.

The State of the Environment report, the latest five-year government snapshot, makes for generally dismal reading.

Another summer, and La Nina keeps holding on. What does that mean (and what’s an El Nino)?

Poor countries have contributed the least to human-induced climate change but are already being affected more than richer ones.

Australia's original climate change-focused think-tank and lobby group will shut after it failed to replace the multi-million-dollar bequest it relied on.

The first sign Graeme McCrabb knew something was badly amiss in the Menindee Weir Pool was when he drove his car over the Darling River bridge near the town last Sunday.

Dozens of birds have died and others are seriously ill following an outbreak of botulism in several lakes across the Perth area.

A giant sunfish usually found in the waters of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa has washed up in California, and scientists don't know how it got so lost.

The whale migration season is off to a bumper start, highlighted by the possible return of a whale superstar.

The companies behind Australia’s biggest consumer brands are calling for regulation of recycling and packaging to ensure consistency between the states and territories, and ensure laggards don’t benefit from cheaper costs.

Why criticise school children for their global climate strike? After all, we teach them to be critical thinkers, writes the Gonski Institute's deputy director.

Revellers heading to Sydney for Saturday's Mardi Gras celebrations no longer face the prospect of wild weather despite wet conditions, according to the Bureau of Meteorology's latest update.

NSW is bracing for the potential of major floods and record rainfall on Thursday, with large parts of the state “in the firing line” of dangerous weather.