Environment

Irrespective of the Warburton review’s findings, the uncertainty Tony Abbott has created is killing the green energy sector.

A Sydney woman is being detained without charge in Malaysia after protesting that an Australian mining company there is failing to safely dispose of radioactive waste.

An inconvenient alliance has added fuel to Clive Palmer’s mysterious machinations regarding climate change legislation.

The US experience provides a glimpse of our potentially prosperous but unsettling future, if we let loose a gas and oil fracking boom.

At the Bentley blockade in northern NSW, the seeds are being sown for a new crop of public defiance.

Support for the Greens fell drastically at the last election, and their party room is divided, but the power they will wield in the new senate is significant.

Regulatory failures are exposing communities in mining towns to toxic emissions, a new report says. But pragmatism about jobs may be stifling dissent.

In NSW’s North West Slopes, communities are fighting the expansion of open-cut coalmines into farms and forests.

The oil and gas industry is waging a PR campaign to counter public concerns about hydraulic fracturing. It extends to recruitment in school classrooms.

Dredging of the Barrier Reef is set to see the environment minister fronting court to defend the world’s largest coal port.