A High Court ruling has reversed a NSW approval for an extension of one of the country's biggest coal mines because of the climate change impacts, a verdict that environmentalists say may overturn other mine approvals.

An unprecedented winter open-ocean polynya developed in the Breid Bay on 4 August 2024, attaining a maximum extent of 89,121 km2 Six intense atmospheric rivers with anomalous poleward heat and mo...

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I was born and raised in the Pilbara. Before becoming a psychologist, I spent close to a decade as a child protection worker in some of our highest-risk remote Indigenous communities. In 25 years of p...

Australia's most powerful battery injects a massive and unprecedented amount of power into the grid as it tests its capacity to act as giant shock absorber.

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Defence Minister Richard Marles says the United States, not Australia, will decide how long its nuclear-powered submarines will remain at an Australian naval base based on American ‘operational requir...

To understand where climate change is heading, we have to look at the planet’s distant past and appreciate the disturbing uniqueness of our situation, says Bill McGuire

For 64 years – an insignificant speck of time under a sky this large – from a stolen, sacred site...

One of five booksellers kidnapped by Chinese officials in 2015, Mr. Lam spoke out after his release and became an international cause célèbre.

Genomic characterization and toxicity assays identify Karenia cristata as a brevetoxin-producing species that is the dominant component of the prolonged microalgal bloom causing mass marine mortality ...

The marine microalgae responsible for the most devastating effects of the South Australian harmful algal bloom (HAB) has now been shown to be the most toxic species of its kind ever studied.

A massive coal mine expansion backed by a global mining giant has been given environmental approval by state LNP government, despite its huge climate and biodiversity impacts.