Australian scientists are using sniffer dogs to rescue koalas struggling to survive damaging bushfires as they try to avoid a repeat of last year's high death count of the native animals.

The senior bureaucrat tasked with Australia’s management of emergency situations says sending in Defence troops should not be the “first call” during natural disasters.

Big plans are afoot to turn Northern Australia into Asia’s “food bowl”. But the reality of climate change can’t be ignored.

A visionary financial and land use planning model is being trialled in South East Queensland to manage the relocation of ...

Amid more extreme weather events, parametric insurance — described as a bet on the weather —is on the rise. It is now being touted as a possible solution for Australians, who have some of the highest ...

Bad wildfires are becoming more likely, more severe and burning far more land than they otherwise would have due to climate ...

The stratospheric polar vortex high above Antarctica has rapidly heated up. These sudden bursts of heat can bring rapid weather changes in Australia ...

A Melbourne-based developer is planning to build a big battery project on a triangle of land between two roads at Macedon, in Victoria.

The Youth Mental Health and Technology team at the University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Centre says this year's World Mental Health Day theme is a ...

Extreme weather costs Australians more each decade and, as a country, we have some of the highest per capita economic and insurance losses in the world. New data from the Insurance Council of ...