Environment

Researchers are turning to drones to help them discover the health and habits of large marine mammals and other wildlife.

Two Torres Strait Islander uncles are appealing a federal court ruling that the Commonwealth does not owe a duty of care to protect their people from the impacts of climate change.

Rangers have spent years working to protect the tropical island’s unique wildlife and expect feral cats will be eliminated next year.

Labor party members call for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to be banned across the whole of WA.

People could be allowed to keep dingoes as pets in Queensland under proposed changes to biosecurity regulations, but experts say the native animal is fundamentally different to domestic dogs.

Animals and plants aren't automatically taken off most national and state extinct species list in Australia if they are rediscovered, leaving them without protection as threatened species.

Former South Australian opposition leader David Speirs says he will make a decision about his political future in the coming weeks as he launches his own plans for the algal bloom.

The Coalition says it cannot support major reforms to Australia's environment laws in their current reform, setting a bar as they enter deep negotiations with the federal government.

The Australian government says it's "disappointed" after an international conservation meeting in Hobart failed to reach agreement on improved protection measures in Antarctica.

Heavy rains cause major flooding in central Vietnam, while a category five hurricane rages on the other side of the world in the Caribbean.

A study using mice has found high exposure to PFAS lowered the male's sperm count, decreased testosterone and disrupted embryo development.

Murray Watt warns the Coalition and Greens not to "obstruct" environment laws being introduced to parliament on Thursday, while assuring a special power in the bill would not allow him to intervene on behalf of coal or gas projects.

A company responsible for a tip that has been on fire for nearly six years may be allowed to keep its landfill licence, the ABC can reveal.

A nationwide program has traced how foxes spread from south-eastern Australia to as far away as the Pilbara in just 70 years, as part of efforts to revive native species populations decimated by the pest.

With migratory birds returning to Tasmania during a period of increased bird flu, the chance of the virus affecting the state's coastal areas is on the rise.

If the Coalition is indeed the living corpse it so often resembles, Watt and his boss Anthony Albanese will have little choice but to sit down with the Greens, a party they often seem to loathe even more than the Liberals, and do a deal.

After three years of construction, one of the biggest wind farms in the country has been switched on. The large-scale project has not been without controversy.

Dozens of species of snakes have been captured on high-speed cameras, with researchers finding vipers were the fastest, but an Australian snake was not far behind.

Environment minister Murray Watt says the rewrite of government's environmenal law, the EPBC Act, won't include a "climate trigger", which could be used to block coal and gas projects. Executive director at Pollination Laura Waterford joins The Business to explain why.

Optimism that a deal can be found to amend Australia's environment laws fades, as the Coalition raises concerns over details just days after parts of the legislation were shared with stakeholders.