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New Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says the Government's election mandate to act on climate change has run out and has signalled that new Coalition policy on climate change may not have an emissions trading scheme at its core. The Government's...

Gorgon kickstarts pursuit of global energy market Posted December 1, 2009 19:31:00 Updated December 1, 2009 19:39:00 Australia is positioned to take an even bigger slice of the global energy market with work officially starting on the Gorgon gas project,...

Agriculture produces about 16 per cent of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions and two-thirds of that is methane produced by farm animals. It is commonly thought methane produced by sheep is flatulence, but John Goopy from the New South Wales Department...

The Bureau of Meteorology insisted this morning it was not a dust storm such as the one seen in Sydney on September 23 , just "raised dust". "It's shrinking... conditions are improving,'' Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Peter Zmijewski said....

NSW Rural Fire Service spokeswoman Rebel Talbert said a new fire had broken out near Killingworth, north of Lake Macquarie, on Saturday. "That's expected to impact a couple of remote rural properties in the next few hours," Ms Talbert told...

Firefighters battled dozens of bushfires in South Australia Friday as record-breaking temperatures and lightning storms continued, officials say. Emergency crews fought scores of fires in the populous state of New South Wales, some on the outskirts of Sydney, Australian Broadcasting...

Federal Government has made to the Opposition to gain its support. Government sources said it was prepared to exclude agriculture from the emissions trading scheme indefinitely and allow farmers to generate carbon credits as a sign of good faith to...

A study published in the journal Science shows that woolly mammoths started to die out nearly 2,000 years before complex spears were invented. Fifteen-thousand years ago, large mammals dominated the North American landscape...The director of the University of Adelaide's Research...