Warmer weather and receding floodwaters are bringing more mosquitoes, and not just in regional NSW.

Severe storms hit Sydney’s north-west fringe on Sunday but skirted the rest of the city, offering little relief from high humidity.

Dr Vanessa Pirotta is untangling the web of marine life in Sydney Harbour and makes a living delving into whale gunk and boiling blubber.

The deeper the cuts now the better off we will be.

The pressure to shop ethically ignores the reality that nothing we do actually matters.

More than half the world's turtles and two-thirds of some bird species along Australia's east coast are being found to have ingested plastics as the toll from pollution mounts.

Social media is much decried, but when ordinary people use it to magnify their compassion for drought-stricken farmers, magic can happen.

While it might sound like a cool idea to bring animals like the Tasmanian tiger back from extinction, new research shows this would come at the cost of other already threatened species.

National weather forecast for Thursday March 23

Eve and Adam Dickinson and their two children found the "incredible" lion's mane jellyfish while they were walking on Pakiri Beach, in north Auckland, on Monday.

The images show two scalloped hammerhead sharks dangling lifelessly on drum lines used by the Queensland government under its shark control program.

Sydney experienced damaging wind gusts of up to 90 kilometres an hour on Monday evening. More severe weather is expected on Tuesday, heralding an early start to winter.

Fabulous places, fascinating friends and buying stuff: having an admin job in a global circus is a blast, says Melbourne woman.

Over the past three years, almost all of the world's reefs have experienced summertime heat stress.

Hopes for quenching rains that would aid farmers and ease the bushfire risks appear to be dimming with fresh indications of El Nino thresholds will be surpassed by the end of spring.

Several years ago, 4000 solar panels that had reached the end of their lives were sitting in north Queensland and no one knew what to do with them.

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.

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

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.

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''.

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.

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.

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.

New weather front expected mid-week to bring heavy rain for flood-hit NSW communities.

A rescue mission to help one of the world's rarest parrots is nearing its climax, and a group of Canberra bird enthusiasts is helping out.