Australia’s second largest city, Melbourne is a busy and vibrant place for people to live, work, socialise and explore. What come with such a thriving economy...
Australian scientists are attaching minute sensors to honeybees to track their movements, in an effort to improve understanding of what is causing the potentially devastating loss...
2013 was the warmest year in Australia since records began in 1910, with annual mean temperatures 1.2C above average, the country’s Bureau of Meteorology has revealed....
China’s recent concern over pollution and climate change may result in a shift in coal consumption, particularly affecting Australian coal assets, a new report has said....
Brazil’s environment minister at the climate negotiations in Warsaw has blamed criminal organisations for the deforestation of the Amazon, but said that they were “isolated cases”....
Ernst & Young (EY) has warned that “political point scoring over rising energy bills has intensified energy policy tensions across the various parties”, and as a...
Australia was labelled as “the new climate pariah” and accused of dismantling current climate legislation at UN climate talks in Warsaw on Wednesday. The 19th session...
Talks to create two protected marine reserves in the Antarctic have failed, as Russia, Ukraine and China refused to commit to the plans. Delegates from 24 countries...
Twenty-four countries plus the European Union have gathered in Hobart, Australia, as members of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), to...
Australian environment minister Greg Hunt has said that the country has a long history of bushfires, and brushed off claims that the recent outbreak is linked...
The Australian state of New South Wales declared a state of emergency on Sunday after bushfires destroyed hundreds of houses in the Blue Mountains, west of...
Emergency teams are assessing the damage caused by the cyclone Phailin, which disrupted the Andhra Pradesh and Orissa states with 125mph winds on Saturday. Indian authorities...
The French government has said a carbon tax will be introduced in the country next year that is expected to generate some €4 billion (£3.3 billion)...
The coalition has announced a $40 million (£23m) trust fund to promote the maintenance of the Great Barrier Reef and tackle poaching and illegal fishing, but...
The UK is the fourth most attractive country for clean energy investment according to Ernst & Young, moving up one place in the ranking since May....