A federal judge in Alaska late Friday declared President Trump’s order revoking a sweeping ban on oil and gas drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans illegal, putting 128 million acres of federal waters off limits to energy exploration.
I am Mozambican and an aid agency communicator, and responding to Cyclone Idai is just the latest humanitarian crisis I have been involved in -- Mozambique has a history of being affected by huge storms.
Why do so many people in regional and rural areas not believe in climate change? The answer could have more to do with human nature than scientific reasoning.
Opposition Water spokesman Tony Burke has announced Labor would change the way 450 gigalitres of water is recovered, by restoring the socio-economic definition for delivering water.
Victoria’s three coal-fired power stations belched more than a tonne of mercury into the atmosphere last financial year, new analysis reveals, prompting calls for the Andrews government to step in and curb their emissions.
If it proceeds, the Star of the South project would be the first of its kind in Australia and generate 2,000 megawatts of electricity — enough to power 1.2 million homes.
Fire restrictions will be extended at least to the end of April in many parts of NSW as the ongoing drought continues to elevate bushfire risks, the Rural Fire Service said.
Conservationists say NSW Hunter Valley habitat crucial to the breeding of the critically endangered regent honeyeater must be protected from industrial development, or else the species will be on a path to extinction.
This month corals in Lord Howe Island Marine Park began showing signs of bleaching. The 145,000 hectare marine park contains the most southerly coral reef in the world, in one of the most isolated ecosystems on the planet.
The demand for carbon farming projects is growing in south-west Queensland with one Indigenous group looking to the initiative to regenerate the bush.
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