Restaurants have banded together to rid their suburb of one of the most annoying single-use plastic items. From July 1, the ...

In 2018, the Northern Beaches Council adopted her suggestion to create an Urban Night Sky Place along one of Sydney's most ...

A new study says that the haze produced by fires in southeast Asia causes increased rainfall in Australia by lowering regional ocean temperatures. Particulate matter in the upper atmosphere has been ...

Every year the winter cold brings an ambient haze of wood heater smoke to the suburbs, streets and houses of southern Australia. This smoke can aggravate asthma, divide neighbours and drive people ...

SYDNEY, April 19 (Reuters) - Australia said on Wednesday it would introduce new standards targeting vehicle emissions to boost the uptake of electric cars, as it looks to catch up with other developed ...

Outdoor air pollutants monitored at five Queensland schools in a year-long QUT study found that most of the tiny particles (PM 2.5) that lodge in the lungs came from the environment, such as smoke ...

Climate Council CEO Amanda McKenzie said: “This double whammy of climate pollution and El Niño will hit many of us hard. Many ...

Heavy metal pollution from Australia is blowing across the Tasman and landing in New Zealand, researchers say. "It's reasonably common to see really red material in the snow in New Zealand, which is ...

"What we're really doing is sort of kick-starting that recovery process," Simon Branigan, Marine Restoration Lead at The ...