Huge mudslides from November's earthquakes have wiped out all organisms living in the seabed of the Kaikoura Canyon, which used to be a hotbed of life.

Loan request is for a 900 megawatt coal plant with carbon capture and storage.

Brisbane-based Qantas engineers have spent the best part of the past month installing sensitive atmospheric monitoring sensors on a Hawaiian Airlines Airbus A330 in a bid to fill a major gap in global climate research.

After years of cuts, Victorians with solar panels will see an increase in what they are paid for the energy they feed into the power grid.

There is about 10 per cent less sea ice in Antarctica this year than the previous record minimum.