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Every spring, ponds around the UK start stirring and frogs come out of their winter slumber to mate. Here's a unique perspective on an event that’s been happening since the age of the dinosaurs

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The under-sea cable linking Tasmania's electricity market to that of the Australian mainland has been accidentally damaged during maintenance work, taking it out of action until mid-April.

Turnbull's plan for the National Energy Guarantee depends on fooling three key constituents: his own party, as a leaked email reveals; the mainstream media; and the industry itself. The evidence suggests he is half way there.

BNEF report highlights highlights falling costs of solar, wind and battery storage, which together are mounting an unprecedented challenge to fossil fuel power.

Industry-backed report finds doubling Australia's projected EV uptake to 2030 would deliver a $2.9bn boost to GDP, 13,400 new jobs, and save drivers an average of $800 a year.

Business customers pay about half what households and small businesses pay in Australia, and their costs are about middle of the road compared to other major economies.

Excluding unreliable land-use data, 2017 greenhouse emissions were again highest on record

Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2017 were again the highest on record when unreliable data from sectors including land clearing and forestry are excluded, according to consultants NDEVR Environmental.

Even including land clearing, overall emissions show a continued rising trend, which began in about 2011, putting Australia’s commitment under the Paris agreement further out of reach.

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The All-New Nissan LEAF, the world's best-selling electric vehicle, was named the "2018 World Green Car" at the 2018 New York International Auto Show.

Emissions have increased now for three years in a row, since the repeal of the carbon price. Energy emissions are now at record highs, as revealed by the National Energy Emissions Audit.

uberPOOL app launches in Sydney, giving customers opportunity to cut costs by 50%, and offering "credible alternative to car ownership."

Each year, more than 4000 industrial facilities estimate their emissions and waste transfers of toxic substances and report them to the NPI. This data helps communities, governments and researchers understand and monitor the sources of industrial...

Climate science deniers and conservative media have found a new “free speech” hero — an academic who is suing his own university and thinks the multiple human threats to the Great Barrier Reef are overblown.

New analysis shows that Victoria's electricity supply held up without Hazelwood through a hot summer and avoided over four million tonnes of CO2.

Assessment to include climate science and threatened species impacts, ministers say

Federal Labor is promising to revisit and fix any logging agreements with state governments that are not based on “proper, independent and full scientific assessments”.

In a pledge that could have implications for the rollover of nine agreements due to expire in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia over the next three years, the shadow minister for agriculture, Joel Fitzgibbon, and shadow minister for environment and water, Tony Burke said; “Labor will always support proper, independent and full scientific assessments of RFA [regional forestry agreement] outcomes as part of the agreed framework.

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BMW Group unveils all-electric version of iconic 3-door Mini, with production set for 2019 in UK, and plans underway to manufacture in China.

One in eight solar installations include battery storage as the economics improves. SunWiz predicts that 33,000 household storage installations in 2018, with NSW leading the market but the best returns made in South Australia.

The Bureau of Meteorology's climate outlook for April to June is 'neutral', but that doesn't mean we're flying blind, weather-wise. Andrew B. Watkins, Manager of Long-range Forecast Services, Australian Bureau of Meteorology Felicity Gamble, Senior climatologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Australian Bureau of Meteorology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Chocolate is proof the universe loves us and wants us to be happy. Here's how to hunt up the best, most-sustainable and ethically-tasty chocolate eggs this Easter. Robert Edis, Soil Scientist, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research Kanika Singh, Research Fellow, University of Sydney Richard Markham, Research Program Manager for Horticulture, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Scientists have imaged a "transparent" galaxy that may have no dark matter.

Researchers from Australia’s leading marine science agency respond to criticism by two academics that doubts much of their work

Scientists at Australia’s leading marine science agency say an attack on the integrity of their research into threats to the Great Barrier Reef was flawed and based on “misinterpretation” and “selective use of data”.

The Australian Institute of Marine Science (Aims) researchers were responding to accusations made in November 2017 in a journal Marine Pollution Bulletin that claimed much of their work “should be viewed with some doubt”.

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