Lady Elliot Island sat bare, bleak and silent for 100 years after guano miners ravaged it, leaving a moonscape devoid of life. Then in the 1960s, one family started planting trees.

For a home using 3,500kWh of electricity a year the system could pay for itself in around 8 years

As solar PV continues to grow globally, it is set to become the largest contributor to the world’s electricity mix from 2031, according to DNV

WA's energy sector is sounding the alarm over a landmark High Court ruling that overseas emissions from a proposed NSW coal mine were required to be considered when approving the project.

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.

The rapid growth of BYD and Geely is skewing sales reporting to the upside, masking a weakening Australian auto market.

EVs continue to dominate Europe’s new car sales, accounting for around half of all new registrations in at least six countries and setting new records in a half dozen others.

It has unrivalled ambition and is backed by a tech billionaire, but Sun Cable's plans to export solar power to Singapore are floundering.

NASA has released a striking image of dawn on the Martian surface taken by its Curiosity rover, showing sunlight bathing jagged crags formed billions of years ago.

Australia's High Court rules in favour of a Hunter Valley community group in a landmark climate ruling that could redraw how fossil fuel projects are approved in Australia.

Regulators have ordered the company representing the US web giant in Finland to stop building data centers until it can demonstrate compliance with environmental laws. Officials are investigating whether trees and soil were cleared before the company carried out an impact study.

Mystery still surrounds what happened near UK RAF base Fairford but analysts warn US allies may face seeing their bases targeted.

Electric car choice is expanding rapidly thanks to EU clean car targets, but weakening the 2030-35 targets would put affordable models and Europe’s…

EVs capture 24.2 per cent of new car market in September, beating petrol cars for the second month in a row - led by BYD, Tesla and Geely.

BYD's electric Atto 1 looks much like any other modern city car. It has a five-star safety rating, a touchscreen-equipped interior and, by most accounts, is surprisingly refined to drive.

Gas cars made up 49% of global new car sales in the first half of 2026, down from 73% in 2021. But hybrids are taking as much share as EVs.

The WA government is weighing up future plans for a desalination plant in Esperance as work on a $543 million upgrade to the historic Goldfields water pipeline ramps up.

The share of gasoline cars in global vehicle sales fell below 50% for the first time ever as the Hormuz shock and the resulting record-high fuel prices accelerated the previously sluggish shift toward...

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Having just approved a major coal mine expansion, Australia's climate credentials will be under the spotlight at pre-COP talks in Fiji.

Anthony Albanese promised to be "the adult in the room" and govern from the centre. But is that still the political mood as we enter the last part of 2026?

Vehicles will be prohibited from accessing almost a kilometre between Orchard Street and Great Portland Street from October 26

What so many of the current major global conflicts have in common with the debacle in Iraq is their undefined, or sometimes not truthfully defined, missions.

Europe's solar boom is cushioning households from the crippling costs of gas, as the war on Iran continues to highlight the dangers of fossil fuel reliance.

See the images that made amateur and professional wildlife photographers around the world giggle.

Mobile power bank technology – and a lower price for Tesla's most expensive car – have been added to the Model Y and Model 3 for 2027.

Honda’s first electric car for Australia is tiny, full of character and comes with a pretend gearbox. But with just 202km of claimed range, can the Super-One’s personality justify its $36,900 price tag?

Data centres must be "on terms that work for Australians", according to draft national standards on AI. To understand what that means, let's look overseas.

The British Prime Minister has said he will weigh a “range of options” for the future relationship with the European Union, including the prospect of rejoining the bloc. #EuropeNews

It’s the world’s fastest-growing power technology — and Beijing is dominant

Scientists say rapid warming has also led to accelerated sea level rise over the past decade