Climate funding for poorer countries remains a sticking point as the UN's COP29 summit winds down, with an expert conceding "we are far from the finish line".
William James, Simon Jessop and Gloria Dickie
A young paramedic has recalled his suspected run-in with the world’s most venomous fish while holidaying in Australia.
Alexandra Feiam
Residents are bracing for a hot, wet summer as a severe heatwave warning is issued to most of Australia while the northern areas are smashed by severe thunderstorms.
Experts are calling for a “fashion waste shake-up” after a study found Aussie charity shops exported high-quality second-hand clothes to Europe, while resellers imported them back.
Emma Kirk
A $2 million fund for research into the insidious shot-hole borer has been labelled ‘too little too late’, with local governments calling for urgent action to save Perth’s trees.
Jake Dietsch
Rio Tinto plans to compulsorily acquire shares in Energy Resources of Australia and get on with rehabilitating the Ranger uranium mine surrounded by Kakadu.
Aaron Bunch
Nannup WA Geopark launched the first phase of a UNESCO project, with the area now the only active geopark in Australia.
Anjelica Smilovitis
WA’s environmental watchdog will get renewed focus as housing, the $7b Westport project and a third desalination plant rise in priority.
Jessica Page
Australian efforts to cut emissions and generate more renewable electricity will be tracked and traced by a climate group.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
Climate change-driven heat and cyclones have caused a large chunk of the Great Barrier Reef to drop in health, with some areas reporting the largest coral decline in 39 years.
Coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef continues to struggle following extensive bleaching events which are increasing in frequency amid climate change.
Fraser Barton
Australia's carbon projects are doing little to conserve the nation's most threatened species whose habitat is mostly on privately owned agricultural land.
As the world's decision makers gather for the G20 in Brazil, there are hopes half a world away that troubled talks on climate finance may finally reach a deal.
Sibi Arasu, Melina Walling and Seth Morenstein
Labor’s Nature Positive laws will inflict ‘great damage’ on WA’s economy even without a climate trigger, industry says.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
A chaotic bushfire which destroyed at least one home and burned through 1000ha of land may have been deliberately lit, authorities have revealed.
Blair Jackson
Green energy-intensive exports could net Australia eight times more than fossil fuels and bridge the gap in other nations' clean energy shortfalls, data shows.
Samantha Lock
The Greens will no longer insist on a climate trigger under a new offer designed to tempt the Federal Government into a deal to pass its Nature Positive laws in the final parliamentary sittings of the year.
At least one home has been destroyed as fires tore through more than 2000 hectares of bushland, with authorities warning of “challenging” conditions yet to come.
Blair Jackson and Liam Beatty
Tens of thousands of people face a second summer of substandard beach water quality — forcing them to head elsewhere — as environmental issues plague some of Perth’s most popular summer spots.
Caitlyn Rintoul
The UN is urging G20 leaders send a "crystal-clear" signal in support of climate finance efforts following a lack of progress at the COP29 summit.
Kate Abnett and Valerie Volcovici
Climate protesters say locals found swimming inside a sweeping marine exclusion zone could be arrested during a blockade of the world's biggest coal port.
Extreme and catastrophic fire dangers have been forecast for parts of Australia on Saturday with extreme heat to wash over the southern parts of the country.
Steve Zemek
The UN says only about one per cent of the 1200 methane leak alerts issued to governments and companies have garnered a "substantive response".
Staff Writers
The process of UN climate negotiations is no longer fit for purpose and requires a comprehensive overhaul, leading experts warn.
William James
