Sea levels rose 10 metres above present levels during Earth’s last warm period 125,000 years ago, according to new research that offers a glimpse of…

Labor and the union representing Australia's national science agency have ramped up their opposition to staffing caps, while the agency has appeared before the Fair…

The Murray-Darling Basin Authority has filed a formal complaint against the current affairs program 60 Minutes. …

The NSW Government committed $38 million to four large air tankers in preparation for one of the state’s most dangerous fire seasons. Available for service…

The head of the agency in charge of regulating Australia’s energy market has stepped down. Chief executive of the Australian Energy Market Commission, Anne Pearson,…

Following revelations of a failing water management system in 2017, regulators have been fighting back against water theft with new tools. This includes a combination…

It is becoming increasingly possible that sea-level rise of a metre or more will occur this century. You might expect this threat to preoccupy coastal…

The rate of liquified natural gas exports from Australia has skyrocketed over the past two decades. Why then, would we need to ship it in?…

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges we face. While governments debate the future of coal-burning power stations, carbon dioxide continues to be released…

The Department of the Environment and Energy has added the first new entries to its freedom-of-information disclosure log since December, 2018, shortly after The Mandarin reported…

CSIRO staff have voiced their concerns over the federal government’s public service staffing cap, arguing that it could harm the organisation in the long term.

Australian governments have sought to drought-proof parts of inland Australia through publicly funded irrigation schemes for much of the past century. But support something (or…

Secretary of the Department of the Environment and Energy Finn Pratt will retire next month.

Just before 7am on September 29, 2009, a magnitude 8 earthquake struck the seafloor in the central South Pacific, about 190kms south of Samoa. It…