More than half a billion dollars has been spent in the latest auction under the Turnbull government's direct action climate change policy,with the vast majority of the money committed to tree projects.
Donations to major environment groups such as Greenpeace,the Wilderness Society and Friends of the Earth could be stripped of their tax deductible status under sweeping changes put forward by members of the Turnbull government.
New plans to increase renewable energy and cut power use have been foreshadowed by the state budget,but the Andrews government has held back the full details of what the strategies will entail.
A Victorian technology company striving to produce more efficient and cheaper solar power has won financial backing from the national renewable energy agency to expand its plans.
Scientists surveying the mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef say that just 7 per cent of the Australian environmental icon has been left untouched by the event.
Victoria's big brown coal players will each have to stump up tens of millions of dollars as extra security for the eventual clean up of their Latrobe Valley mines,with the Andrews government agreeing to dramatically increase rehabilitation bonds.
Australia must start forcing the closure of dirty power plants or it will risk failing to meet long-term climate goals and seeing clean energy investment stagnate,a new analysis has found.
Rehabilitation bonds paid by the owners of Victoria's three enormous brown coal mines are inadequate and should be increased by tens of millions of dollars,an inquiry into the devastating 2014 Hazelwood mine fire has recommended.
Australia's oil and gas industry lobby group spent $3 million last year"obstructing"ambitious climate change policy through its advocacy work,according to an assessment by not-for-profit research group InfluenceMap.
The Great Barrier Reef is often described as the largest living thing on the planet,but swimming over the coral reefs around Heron Island it is the little things that you notice.
More than 300 doctors and other medical professionals have signed an open letter demanding the state government develop a plan to retire the Latrobe Valley's brown coal power plants because of the health damage they cause.