Victoria’s new data centre rules won’t apply to this city edge proposal, exposing a planning vacuum driving community backlash across outer Melbourne.

Experience the best moments of the 12th European TramDriver Championship in Warsaw in full - featuring all 52 competition runs by 25 teams from 24 nations. It doesn’t get more exciting than this for tram enthusiasts. Alongside defending champion Budapest and host city Warsaw, the reigning world cham

The echidna in the pantry, the koala in the boudoir, the skink in the sink. All true!

Gabrielle Boyle resigned three days before the AFL switched on Microsoft’s AI assistant, having been told she couldn’t opt out.

Australia is leading the world in the adoption of batteries big and small. But in one state, storage is fuelling some perverse and pricey outcomes.

Gannets, elegant dive bombers of the sea, have evolved for survival since the other dinosaurs perished 66 million years ago. But now, they are in mortal danger.

We’ve gone in search of the invertebrate of the year. Now it’s your chance to choose

Tenacious and confounding, the horseshoe crab pre-dates dinosaurs and has copper-based blood vital to vaccine safety

The palm-sized greengrocer comes in many colours and has long been a collectible item for Australian children

Turritopsis dohrnii has the ability to turn back into a baby jellyfish and grow up all over again

As lethal bird flu spreads in Australian wildlife, it can be easy to think nothing can stop it. That’s an error – much can be done.

This detritivore – known by a range of colourful names – tidies up our world and can withstand toxic pollution

Exclusive: Scientists say about 5,000 fewer southern bent-wing bats have been recorded at a key maternity site for the species

A South Australian ecologist has been tracking giant earthworm sightings for 30 years, despite the species not officially existing in the state.

Flagship pilot program to set up 100 sites around the country to collect used solar PV panels has been suspended, with no word on when it might resume.

Thousands of native animals get caught in back yard fruit nets, fences and fishing line every year. Here’s what you can do to help * Change by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon footprint * Got a question or tip for reducing household emissions? Email us at changebydegrees@theguardian.com Thousands of native animals get snared in fruit tree netting, fencing and fishing gear every year in Australia – events that frequently result in injury or death. Wildlife entanglements are rising, with at least 3,500 cases annually in New South Wales, and more than 2,000 last year in Victoria. Continue reading...

Toni Romeo, owner of Yumbo’s ice-cream shop, has a 65-year family link to Rathdowne Street shops.

We’re asking people from around the world to nominate their favourite spineless species for our third Invertebrate of the Year competition

Its electricity, water use and greenhouse gas emissions all climbed to record levels last year.

The sighting was reported by a veteran whale watcher, who has seen Migaloo several times.

Lab rats make great pets according to Dr Jodi Salinsky, Animal Welfare Officer and Head Veterinarian at the University of Auckland. She lists off their perks: “hilarious”, “easy to train”, “social”, “...

A first-of-its kind adoption centre is aiming to find permanent homes for small animals used in scientific research.

Two fires in 12 years wiped out all but a handful of the mature native pines in Victoria’s Wyperfeld national park, a key breeding ground for endangered pink cockatoos

Artificial habitats are giving the Kangaroo Island dunnart a chance at recovery, after bushfires left them largely homeless.

New proposal by data centre developers to super-size their twice rejected gas generation plans spark outrage and a call for protests.

The behavioural cue of ‘flexible self-protection’ is a way to establish whether an animal feels pain, scientists say

The behavioural cue of ‘flexible self-protection’ is a way to establish whether an animal feels pain, scientists say * Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Do insects feel pain? Crickets certainly seem to, according to new research which finds they stroke and groom a sore antenna in much the same way as a dog nurses its hurt paw. Associate Prof Thomas White, an entomologist from the University of Sydney, said the experience of pain was a “longer, drawn-out, ouchy feeling”, that differed from a hardwired nerve response. Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...

A new analysis of enrolment data by this masthead reveals not only a gap in the number of courses on offer, but the subjects themselves.

Residents say massive, noisy AI factories with unknown environmental impacts are being rushed into development right next to their homes

Despite the rising flood of fast fashion coming into Australia, there's little regulation on hazardous substances in clothes.

It took fire and rescue teams several hours to retrieve two-year-old Jack Russell Elbie – missing for several days – from its precarious position.

Frogs and sheep in the Gwydir wetlands near Moree have also been bogged after WaterNSW stopped environmental flows, researchers say

A real possum nestled among soft toys and animals in a gift shop has thrilled passengers — but caused "pandemonium" after going on a sightseeing tour of the departure lounge.

More than 100,000 people have tuned in to watch a kākāpō – a rare flightless bird – sleeping, tidying her nest and fighting off intruders

A Melbourne-based e-waste recycling company has been fined for shipping undeclared e-waste to Singapore, including solar inverters and lithium-ion batteries.

Contemporary children’s books reflect the diversity and values of a changing world – but getting new titles into small hands is harder than ever

The impact of fires on wildlife can be ‘catastrophic’, with some plant species feared extinct

Miles Franklin-winner Alexis Wright pays tribute to the first book that visualised this powerful ancestral being from an Indigenous imagination

Doctors warn there are biological limits to temperatures we can survive, and exposure to extreme heat can provoke a heart attack

A beach on a remote island, and home to nesting turtles, is annually overwhelmed by tonnes of plastic garbage. Christmas Island is doing what it can to help stem the never-ending tide of pollution.