Environment

Tropical Cyclone Grant is expected to remain a category one system as it passes just to the north of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands off the West Australian coast.

The rising popularity of second-hand and vintage fashion has been viewed as an opportunity to reduce fast fashion consumption; however, Australia remains one of the world's highest waste producers.

Swimmers and boaties are being warned to avoid part of the Gold Coast Broadwater at Biggera Waters after a sewage leak just days out from Christmas.

Preparations are underway far off Western Australia's north-west coast for the impact of a category one cyclone as Perth and much of the state continues to swelter in heatwave conditions.

Lying on the ground with her ankle snapped in half in the remote bushland of western Arnhem Land, her mind racing, and with no help or phone reception, Margie Moroney began to crawl.

A woman has been rushed to hospital after a brown snake curled around her leg, becoming trapped in her shoe.

A court rules a maintenance failure caused hundreds of fish to die near Delta Electricity's Vales Point coal-fired power station in September 2022, a month after another kill triggered by natural causes.

The Queensland government is inviting the public to have their say on a new strategy to protect the south-east's koala population.

An 88-year-young giant sequoia tree is "declining rapidly" in St David's Park in central Hobart due to a range of disturbances, including vandalism and fire, the council says.

One of the country's largest gold mines in the NSW Central West will buy five new dust monitors after incidents at its tailings dam. 

The WA government abandons plans to burn a parcel of forest that is home to a species of rare tree after a 70-year-old man spent six nights living in the canopy.

The owner of a farm neighbouring South32's major bauxite mine in WA claims the miner is responsible for rising salinity and reduced water availability at his property. His claims are now being probed by WA's regulator.

Residents of the tiny Indonesian island of Pari, which risks being swallowed by rising seas, win the right to have their climate change case against cement giant Holcim heard in a Swiss court.

The Isle of May is the epicentre of a deadly outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu strain which has spread throughout the globe. Scientists are warning Australia could be next.

The varroa mite may be tiny — only a millimetre or two long — but it poses a huge threat to honey bees, beekeepers and honey producers, who are on high alert after the destructive mite's recent arrival in South Australia. 

Japan has taken the final step to allow the world's largest nuclear power plant to resume operations with a regional vote in Niigata prefecture.

Ever been about to pour rancid milk down the sink and thought, "Hmm, maybe I shouldn't…"? What about the tomato passata that's gone off? Or the water you washed the paint in? Or that pungent oil from a tuna can?

Artists like Stella Donnelly are searching for ways to cut waste and make production of their albums environmentally friendly.

For photographer Scott Jon McCook, seeing the unique salt lakes of WA's Wheatbelt from the air was so captivating it started a five-year passion project.

Residents in small Pilbara towns with power grids run by mining companies are excluded from home battery rebate schemes.

For more than two decades, Rob Pennicott has taken tourists to see the D'Entrecasteaux Channel. But what he describes as "dead zones" have him so worried that he is funding a study to find what is going wrong.

Some recreational fishing restrictions initially put in place to protect fish stocks impacted by South Australia's algal bloom have now been eased.

Most Australians live by the beach, but the coastline we have built our lives around is disappearing before our eyes.

White western grey kangaroos are a popular sight in a small wildlife park nestled near the South Australia – Victoria border and some are now being sold.

In a remote river in Victoria's east, a fisherman says he has encountered an ultra-rare pink platypus, one of only a handful ever sighted in the past 200 years.