Environment

Wiradjuri men Michael and Braden Lyons hope their voices are heard before governments make any decisions on environmental flows and the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

A new factory that upcycles waste from growing cotton could see more "cottonfed" Australian beef, and a byproduct from the process could find its way into your fish and chips.

Authorities in flood-hit Pakistan have strategically breached the country's largest freshwater lake, displacing up to 100,000 people from their homes in an effort to save more densely populated areas.

An indigenous burial site in the Torres Strait has been uncovered by rising tides — fuelling a murder mystery archaeologists believe pre-dates colonial settlement in Australia.

The government hopes to introduce industrial relations reform before the end of the year as debate looks set to dominate parliament in its latest sitting. 

New research suggests Australia's thunderbirds didn't die out from human nest raiders or crippling bone disease as previously thought. 

It's been a problem for years and residents and businesses along the Tamar River in Northern Tasmania are struggling to understand why a solution still hasn't been found.

On a tropical island in North Queensland, an iconic marsupial lives its best life away from predators. So why does the population still fluctuate significantly? Scientists are trying to find out.

The technology is being hailed as one way Australia can open new oil and gas projects while simultaneously combating climate change. But there are doubts CCS is up to the task. 

With no previous experience and only a desire to return their 10 hectares of land to its original habitat, Wal and Heather Mayr set about undoing the damage to this pristine environment, one weed at a time.

Deep storage is considered the Holy Grail of efforts to turn the electricity grid green — and a roll call of interesting characters is on the trail.

A 30-year water licence in the Northern Territory is believed to be one of the largest ever awarded in Australia, and traditional owners are hoping to overturn it.

Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant again loses connection to its last main external powerline, but continues to supply electricity to the grid through a reserve line, IAEA say.

Dedicated carers have endured swampy, mosquito-filled conditions to locate an orphaned wombat joey. And it would give all of them enormous pleasure to let him go.

Fed up with what they saw as inaction by policymakers, three climate change scientists called on their colleagues to withdraw from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reporting process. 

The decision to rescue the three dolphins followed a decade-long campaign that included billboards, artwork, school programs and a drive asking people not to buy tickets to their shows.

When the late John Fenton inherited land in1956, he raised eyebrows by building wetlands and planting forests, creating shelter for stock and transforming a near treeless farm into an environmental jewel.

Another fire has spread in California as the state battles a prolonged heat wave, with a blaze that started on a lumber mill near the Oregon border destroying homes and injuring several people.

Scientists find whales are increasingly returning to historic birthing grounds around Australia where they were once intensely hunted

After 11 years of perseverance, a Queensland man has crossed the Simpson Desert driving a wind-powered buggy.

In Kowanyama people live side-by-side with crocodiles. From Dreamtime stories to the modern day, the predators are an intrinsic part of the region's culture.

Fifty-five years ago wild weather battered the Gold Coast, eroding beaches and destroying millions of dollars worth of property. Since then, sea walls, artificial reefs and pipelines have been built. But with climate change biting, is it enough?

Zuriah moves her electric socket higher up the wall to reduce the risk of electric shock at high tide. She is one of the last in her village in Central Java, Indonesia, to stay on as the sea level rises. 

When a Chinese mining company was approved to rip a 35-square-kilometre open pit in this tiny community, the residents were having none of it.

A new DNA study maps the origin and evolution of one of Australia's largest groups of mammals: rodents.