Science & Environment

World trade, African development and global warming are all on the agenda at this year’s G8 summit, being held on...

The Council for Australian Governments yesterday voted against a plan to raise water trade limits in the Murray-Darling Basin. Victorian...

In line with the COAG meeting this week, the Government will also hear from climate change advisor Professor Ross Garnaut...

Today’s COAG conference signed off on the Murray water deal. The lower lakes of the Murray is the most affected...

Professor Ross Garnaut delivered his draft climate-change review report today, marking the start of a month long energy policy bonanza...

NSW fishermen are exporting so many shark fins, they may be upsetting the ecological balance off our coast. That’s according...

The Senate has decided that Australia should put pressure on the Japanese government over the arrest of two Japanese Greenpeace...

Nuclear power is not needed in Australia, according to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, despite coal sources depleting and CO2 emissions...

By the end of this month the federal government will chose a site to dump nuclear waste somewhere in the...

Amidst concern about record-high oil prices, the Federal Government is developing an emissions trading scheme which will see rises across...