Sewage sludge used to fertilise Australia’s farmlands is loaded with microplastic and is getting into the food chain, researchers warn. Scientists have...

Veteran environmentalist Bob Brown says he’s been banned from all state forests after being charged over a protest in defence of Tasmania’s...

Australia has a new exotic pest and it could be very bad news for the health of river systems and water infrastructure....

In the ornithological world, few creatures rival the mysterious, almost mythical status of Australia’s frumpy-looking night parrot. The elusive ground dweller, with...

The already endangered greater glider is on a fast track to extinction after the NSW environmental watchdog watered down logging protections, environmental...

NSW’s environmental watchdog has put the endangered greater glider on a fast track to extinction by watering down logging protections, experts say....

Australia has been urged to follow Spain’s lead and start naming heatwaves so people grasp how lethal and disruptive they can be....

Advocates for Australia’s dingo population have travelled to the nation’s capital, pleading for an end to their indiscriminate slaughter. Dingoes are Australia’s...

The NSW Forestry Corporation failed to properly search a forest for endangered greater gliders before logging their den trees, a watchdog has...

An urgent trial to help save an ancient fish from extinction is yet to secure all the cash needed, a month before...