A new federal funding push will support communities living under threat of extreme weather events, including flood, fire and cyclonic disasters.
Ria Pandey
After scrapping net zero, the Coalition has emerged from a joint party meeting with a raft of changes in its new climate policy, pledging to reduce energy prices and emissions.
Alexandra Feiam
Penny Wong has delivered a dire warning on how the Coalition’s reversal on its climate policy could unravel decades of diplomatic work in the Pacific.
Thousands of protesters have marched in Brazil bringing their demands for climate action as negotiators reached the halfway point in the marathon COP30 summit.
Sebastian Rocandio and Miguel Lo Bianco and Simon Jessop
The COP30 climate talks in Brazil are almost halfway over, with protesters successfully demanding a meeting with the group's president.
Adriano Machado, Simon Jessop and William James
Millions of Aussies are staring down the barrel of a rain band which could bring “large” hail to the east coast, amid a renewed warning for parts of NSW.
Cameron Micallef and Rhiannon Lewin
The future of climate-change-decimated giant kelp forests is looking a shade brighter as 'voluntourism' is unleashed to restore the endangered ecosystems.
Poppy Johnston
Millions of Aussies are set for a soaking this weekend and unusually warm sea temperatures could produce the first tropical cyclone of the season.
Three weather patterns are in full effect across Australia’s north making conditions ripe for thunderstorms and cyclones.
Emma Kirk
The carbon budget to limit warning to 1.5C has effectively been exhausted, the latest stocktake warns alongside worrying findings for natural carbon sinks.
"It was an attempt to get the attention of the government," Indigenous leaders say of their protesting the COP30 climate talks.
William James, Leonardo Benassatto and Simon Jessop
Turkey’s President has doubled down on his bid to host the COP climate summit next year — an event Australia is also fighting for — as the deadline fast approaches for host-rights to be determined.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Sussan Ley has made a wild claim about the living standards of younger Australians as the debate about net zero reaches a head in Canberra.
Ria Pandey, Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer, Alex Britton
Cockatoo conservation remains a core concern for environmental groups, claiming the Federal Government's revamped nature laws “fail” to protect wildlife.
Craig Duncan
Two months after a devastating shark attack claimed her husband’s life, Maria Psillakis is campaigning for stronger ocean safety measures.
Andrew Hedgman
A senior Liberal has revealed the outcome of a high-stakes five-hour meeting in Canberra on the opposition party’s position on net zero.
Ria Pandey and Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
The United Nations' COP32 climate summit in 2027 will be hosted by Ethiopia but next year's COP31 remains a contest between Turkey and Australia.
Staff Writers
Labor’s ambitious environmental reforms fail to close a “25-year-old loophole” putting the Great Barrier Reef at risk, an economist has warned.
Nathan Schmidt
A Senate inquiry has found state and federal authorities were caught off guard by South Australia’s massive algal bloom and delivered a damning verdict on their response.
Temperatures have plunged to near 0C in parts of Australia as other areas gear up for a week of fires, storms and wild weather.
Andrew Hedgman, Ria Pandey
A social media influencer has been blasted after being caught in an illegal act on a heritage-listed Australian tourist destination.
Blake Antrobus
The state division will follow in the footsteps of their federal colleagues to abandon the contentious emissions target.
Ria Pandey and Nathan Schmidt
UN climate negotiations have kicked off on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon, with the top official calling on countries to stop bickering.
Valerie Volcovici, Katy Daigle and William James
Deserted conservation promises are a blind spot for global negotiations on climate and biodiversity, researchers say, and are devilishly hard to track.
