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Scientists respond furiously to claims about climate change made in a BBC radio interview.

The odds of 2014, 2015, and 2016 naturally being as hot as they were are about the same as the odds you’ll be struck by lightning this year

2014, 2015, and 2016 each broke the global temperature record. A new study led by climate scientist Michael Mann just published in Geophysical Research Letters used climate model simulations to examine the odds that these records would have been set in a world with and without human-caused global warming. In model simulations without a human climate influence, the authors concluded:

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Hundreds of riders race from Belgium to Greece, with no set route, facing extreme heat and often on only a few hours sleep a night

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Cameras are part of a series of measures to improve animal welfare and enforce laws against cruelty

All slaughterhouses in England will be fitted with compulsory CCTV under plans to be unveiled on Friday by environment secretary Michael Gove, as part of a series of measures to bolster welfare standards and enforce laws against animal cruelty.

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Nearly half of £6.1bn energy spending in developing countries from 2010-14 went on oil, coal and gas-fired schemes, data shows

The UK has spent more than twice as much overseas support on fossil fuels projects as on renewable ones so far this decade, according to research commissioned by the Catholic aid agency Cafod.

The Overseas Development Institute, which analysed the figures, found that 46% of Britain’s £6.1bn energy spending in developing countries between 2010 and 2014 went on oil, coal and gas-fired schemes, compared with 22% for renewable energy projects.

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As long as Australia's energy networks hold on to their inflated asset base, and generators and retailers to their inflated profit margins, consumers will have no choice but to take matters into their own hands with solar and battery storage. But what a hopeless failure in public policy that would be.

A key part of the $386 million Powering North Queensland Plan will commence today.

What's wrong with Australia's biggest wind farm? Victoria's 420MW Macarthur facility was supposed to produce 50% more power than it did last year.

New 50MW Hayman solar farm to go merchant, as US investor BlackRock makes first big move into renewables with two solar farm investments.

Australian company Energy Renaissance says it has "sealed deal" with NT government, locking in Darwin as preferred site for 1GWh lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant.

Here are other climate change-related records that have flown more under the radar, reported in the annual State of the Climate report.

A call to retailers; Information about discounts will be simpler, but you’ll still have to do the legwork to shop around.

You can make a battery out of a lemon, a tomato, an orange or a stack of pennies. And now you can make a battery using spit.

Public governance specialist raises concerns over the way the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility is conducting itself

If the federal government funds a rail link to Adani’s proposed Carmichael mine, it will become known as the “government-funded billion-dollar ghost train”, an expert in public governance has told the Senate.

Thomas Clark, a professor at the University of Technology Sydney, who has decades of experience in public and corporate governance, appeared before a Senate inquiry into the operation and governance of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (Naif), which is considering a $900m loan to Adani’s rail link.

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Four mines operated by Glencore and Anglo could be prosecuted or even shut down, minister tells state parliament

Four underground Queensland coalmines operated by Glencore and Anglo American could be prosecuted or even shut down for failing to properly monitor dust levels.

Anthony Lynham, the state’s mines minister, has named and shamed the companies in parliament, warning that they risked severe penalties for failing to meet monitoring obligations designed to protect workers from dust-related diseases such as black lung.

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RCR Tomlinson Ltd is pleased to announce that it has been awarded two contracts for the 150MWac Daydream Solar Farm and the 50MWac Hayman Solar Farm, developed and maintained by Edify Energy Pty Ltd.

Pigs have been freed of viruses that stop them being viable organ donors.

The Product Emissions Standards Bill 2017 was tabled in Parliament on 10 August 2017. Once passed, this new national air quality legislation will allow the government to set emissions standards and establish administrative arrangements for non...

ART OF SCIENCE: A beautiful image that unearths the mysteries of embryonic lung development is one of the winning entries in this year's Art of Science competition.

In different parts of Europe, rivers are flooding earlier or later because of rising temperatures, say scientists.