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At the airport the mercury hit 42.5, pipping Penrith's high of 42.1. And the metropolitan heat was almost as fierce as the 43 recorded in the state's north-west at Walgett. A total fire ban was in place in Sydney, the...

Leader Malcolm Turnbull has been warned to stop championing an emissions trading scheme to avoid a damaging rift in the Liberal Party. Senior MPs say the party must unite and can do so only if support for the scheme is...

S transition to greener energy supplies has been bolstered by the opening of a ''zero emission'' hydro power plant in the state's north-eastern high country. The AGL station at Bogong will have 140 megawatts capacity, enough to power about 120,000...

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...

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...

Australia meets its proposed 2020 carbon emissions target, a study has found. Participants in the Victorian Economic Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Grow Me The Money sustainability program found businesses on the program cut their carbon dioxide emissions by an...

The total fire ban covers centres including metropolitan Melbourne, Bendigo, Shepparton, Wodonga, Mildura, Ballarat and Horsham. Fire chiefs said it was up to individuals to heed bushfire warnings and take action. Temperatures will rise above 40C in the north of...

IN A landmark case for punters, the controversial betting exchange Betfair claims it is suffering a ''discriminatory burden of a protectionist kind'' in the form of a 1.5 per cent turnover tax imposed on it by Racing NSW.

Article from: Reuters November 17, 2009 02:35pm THE Great Barrier Reef has only a 50 per cent chance of survival if global CO2 emissions are not reduced at least 25 per cent by 2020, a coalition of Australia's top reef...

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...