Environment

With warnings the current model is not sustainable, councils are considering their options as pressure grows to find available land and the funds to maintain perpetual gravesites.

WA Labor has been talking up the clean energy transition ahead of the state election. But industry experts say a lack of transmission and generation is slowing progress.

A cyclone advice alert has been issued in parts of WA's north in preparation for strong winds and heavy rain as a tropical low approaches the coast, expected to intensify into a cyclone as early as Wednesday.

With two days of high fire danger expected this week, firefighters battling 16 blazes in Tasmania's west are ramping up efforts, which include multiple helicopters, a C130 Hercules and help from the mainland.

Three climate activists have been fined for attempting to spray political messages on Woodside boss Meg O'Neill's home, after a Perth magistrate told the trio they had crossed a line by targeting her personally. 

Hundreds of Australians could be forced to leave their island homes under government plans to safeguard residents against rising sea levels.

A number of volunteer rescuers are accusing the state's largest wildlife rescue organisation of being too slow when responding to cases, and for silencing members who raise issues.

Bernie Capelli has spent decades as a carpenter and joiner in Western Australia, but with the state's timber supplies dwindling, he doesn't know where the next generation of workers will come from.

Indigenous rangers are "the eyes and ears for north Australia", keeping wildlife safe from ghost nets and coastlines free from rubbish. Technology is giving them new ways to watch the coasts.

A steady increase in snake bites has been attributed to wet weather and flooding as habitat change puts snakes on the move.

Glaciers across the Himalayas are melting at an unprecedented rate, threatening the water supply of rural villages living along the ancient mountain range.

A 23-year-old ecologist known as "The Bee Man" is on a mission to conserve solitary pollinators by building them structures where they can nest — and he's urging others to do the same.

Hundreds of snakes are moved from backyards, inside homes and other urban areas into reserves and bushland around Canberra each year — but until now, little has been known about what happens to snakes after they’re released.

Four years after the South Australian government's bold and ambitious — but very much hypothetical — hydrogen power plant was first announced, there have been inauspicious developments concerning its future.

Admitting you can't swim in a nation girt by sea can be embarrassing. Learning to swim as an adult is difficult, but it's far from impossible. Here's where to start.

The carcass of a dwarf sperm whale is found washed up on an Adelaide beach, with a local tour boat operator who says he saw the "very rare" animal when it was alive and several kilometres offshore describing the cause of death as a "complete mystery".

The Tasmanian government says its proposed changes to planning laws will "prevent baseless objections" to developments from "well-funded activist groups and anti-everything organisations" — a move labelled by critics as "undemocratic".

Tasmania is the "healthiest" place to live, according to a new study. But while the island's state government is keen to draw attention to the result, experts are cautioning against reading too much into it.

A revegetation group that plants native species to the sounds of live music is launching its first fundraiser concert with hopes it becomes an annual event. 

The CFS said the fire posed no threat to life or property but remains uncontained.

Hunter landowners in the path of transmission lines are angry about their treatment after their homes and land were deemed crucial to Australia's energy needs.

More than 100 venomous snakes have been captured in a backyard in Sydney's west in what snake catchers said was their biggest find ever.

Wildlife researchers say they have never come across a male Tasmanian devil with such markings. 

Researchers detect algae linked to potentially fatal food poisoning in Hervey Bay prompting calls for more rigorous water testing.

As Tasmania battles more than a dozen fires sparked by a band of dry lightning strikes, some in high-value wilderness areas, researchers are raising the possibility that this is the 'new normal'.