COOBER PEDY, Australia — From her front door, Sonya Crombie can see the sandstone hills where White men carved up the land in search of opal and then stayed, turning their mines into elaborate ...

Australia has an opportunity to redeem itself on international climate policy and lead a fossil fuel phase out, says a ...

Two images claimed to show Australia's Barrenjoey Peninsula almost a century apart are being held up online as evidence that sea levels are not increasing, despite what the available science has ...

Kelly Kirkland receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Samantha Stanley receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Abby Robinson, Amy S G Lee, and Zoe Leviston ...

July 15 (UPI) --An Australian federal court ruled Tuesday that Indigenous residents of the Torres Strait Islands are not owed environmental protections from the nation's government. Justice Michael ...

Environmentalists are up in arms over the Australian government’s apparent backsliding on its “net zero by 2050” commitments and the interim targets it set. Although the government hasn’t formally ...

There’s a reason political commentators refer to Australia’s “climate wars”. Every time a climate policy is put on the table, supporters and opponents come out in force and duke it out. Last year, ...

Sept. 15 (UPI) --More than 1.5 million Australians will be at risk from sea level rise by 2050, amid an uncertain future in which climate change will make extreme weather events both more frequent and ...

A One Nation politician has claimed strong scientific consensus on global warming was being used as a “political tool” when grilled by a decorated science commentator.

The world has an enormous task to avoid the worst effects of climate change, and the risks remain serious. The energy ...

There are a number of civil wars taking place within Australia’s conservative bloc, with climate change being the central issue of division. Hosting a COP would allow Australia to demonstrate ...

Correction appended: Oct. 24, 2013, 2:05 a.m. E.T. Wildfires are nothing new in Australia, a sunburned country with plenty of vegetation to burn to a crisp when temperatures skyrocket during the ...