In his first message to staff in his new ministry, Matt Kean said he was "determined to take decisive and responsible action on climate change''.

The remarkably inactive cyclone season off Australia's north has finally been disturbed by a major storm, as Tropical Cyclone Blanche brings heavy rain and strong winds to the Top End around Darwin.

Poachers have broken into a French zoo and shot dead a rare white rhinoceros sawing off its horn in what is believed to be the first time in Europe that a rhino in captivity has been attacked and killed.

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 world’s single most important construction material is responsible for nearly 10 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, but that’s set to change.

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

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

The eight-kilometre stretch of coastline contains small tracts of rainforest, wetlands and two beloved surf beaches.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The state forestry body also reported a $29 million loss in its hardwood division for 2023–24, and a productivity report has found the industry is economically unviable.

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.

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.

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

Early risers are used to the occasional late night straggler loitering on Sydney's Coogee Beach at sunrise. But they are never normally this wild.

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. 

Concerns about the health risks of cooking with gas indoors prompted our environment reporter to trial a pollution monitor in her home.

Chris Bowen met with his China counterpart in Egypt for the first ministerial level meeting between Australia and China in five years. Negotiations dragged into the night.

Some describe the eastern koel as “demonic birds” for their constant mating calls. Others say the native cuckoos with beautiful plumage are “absolute magic”.