Major changes to popular maps app
Aussies will be encouraged to take the most fuel-efficient route next time they plug in an address in this maps app.
Aussies will be encouraged to take the most fuel-efficient route next time they plug in an address in this maps app.
Environmentally conscious households will soon be able to save more soft plastics from going to landfill through this new recycling program.
Amid warnings over the government’s recently announced Future Made in Australia plan, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said taxpayer funds would not be wasted.
The ex-treasurer has slammed Australia’s chief productivity adviser who was hand-picked by his own former chief of staff, Jim Chalmers.
Hundreds of workers will strike for 24 hours in a long-running pay dispute with an electricity giant after the company allegedly rejected a new offer from the union.
A controversial tax is taking off across the world, from Bali to Amsterdam, and it seems Aussies want a cut of the action too.
The federal government has proposed developing an offshore wind farm in the middle of a massively popular tourist destination.
With the government and opposition at odds over the proposal, the EU’s energy chief has made a surprise intervention.
A war of words has erupted between two Labor ministers with each other pointing the finger over a major shortfall facing Victoria.
The chief executive of a growing renewable energy company says the proposed location for a new 300MW wind farm “ticks all the boxes”.
A horrific picture of Australia’s Black Summer bushfires has been released in a massive coronial investigation detailing the tragic last moments of 25 Aussies who perished.
The Prime Minister will pledge $1bn to significantly bolster a key industry needed to transform the country to net-zero.
The coroner who led a wide-ranging two-year inquiry into the horror Black Summer bushfires has warned of escalating ‘ risks’ to Australians.
An 80-year-old Aboriginal elder has accused the government of “genocide against forests” after he was arrested during a protest.
Australia’s biggest company has just made a big call on its ambitions and it could influence corporates everywhere.
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan promises she did not get all her views on nuclear power from The Simpsons and Mr Burns’ radioactive power plant.
A new comparison site has revealed the most expensive fuel guzzling cars to own, with some popular models achieving a rating of only 0.5 stars out of six.
The Coalition’s policy to develop nuclear power generation in Australia would require taxpayer funding to get off the ground, its energy spokesperson has admitted.
Peter Dutton won’t back down on the Coalition’s desire to take its nuclear energy policy to the next election.
Battlelines have been drawn in one Australian state where a heated war is brewing over a 40,000-hectare bombshell.
A push by the Coalition to develop nuclear energy generation in Australia has been slammed by mining magnate Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest.
A single photo shared to a local Facebook group sparked uproar this week, with the council forced to clarify an outrageous rumour.
A massive $1.6 billion windfarm project is under threat over a seemingly small detail that has some up in arms.
It’s the popular trend you’ll see almost everywhere, from The Block to high-end magazines, but experts want it urgently forbidden.
The federal government could raise almost $1.5bn per year with an EU-style business tax on plastic packaging, according to new research.
Striking workers have put a $2.3bn green energy build at risk over demands of a 17 per cent uplift in pay.
A prominent Mayor has slammed the Bureau of Meteorology over issuing storm warnings while his city was being hit with wild weather.
Bins in one local council area are overflowing post-Christmas as garbage workers continue industrial action.
One state is battling three emergency-level bushfires, with the latest threatening lives and homes within the capital’s metro area.
Demonstrators with Disrupt Burrup Hub caused traffic chaos on Monday after blocking a major CBD thoroughfare.
On their fourth straight day of climate protest action, Extinction Rebellion members have again targeted busy CBD streets.
A shark-proof enclosure is almost ready to go, just in time for summer, near the site of a fatal shark attack.
Australians have been warned to be conscious of their power bill as summertime temperatures break records.
Radical environmentalists are in the middle of rolling disruptive protests to draw attention to what they see as an extinction threat.
An ambitious local start-up is taking on a major global industry responsible for shocking amounts of pollution with its eco-friendly solution.
Government minister Chris Bowen has fired a warning shot over a growing threat to the country’s national security.
A Victorian man has revealed how he has made daily exercising a profitable side hustle.
A landmark green energy scheme to keep the lights on as ageing coal fired power generation exits the grid has been unveiled, but the government won’t reveal how much the scheme will cost.
Labor has been slammed for being “out of date” on nuclear energy and having an “obsession” with renewables, just days away from a major climate conference in the Middle East.
A huge boost to a taxpayer-underwritten clean energy scheme will help to speed up Australia’s transition towards renewables, the Energy Minister says.
Schoolkids across Australia have ditched the classroom in favour of climate change protests, including a group who held a sit-in outside the environment minister’s Sydney office.
Activists have been slammed for their “ridiculous” reaction to YouTube sensation MrBeast’s latest philanthropic project.
A senior member of the Disrupt Burrup Hub protest group won’t spend time behind bars over withholding device passwords.
A number of Disrupt Burrup Hub members have fronted court, charged after their protests outside a mining boss’ home allegedly broke the law.
Discovery of an extremely rare white platypus in Northern NSW has raised urgent calls for more substantial conservation efforts in Australia.
The Environment Minister has defiantly said she will not wait until the report of an inquiry before aerial shooting is used to cull rapidly exploding brumby numbers.
Private industry must pitch in with the government for Australia to hit net zero by 2050, according to the Treasurer.
The NSW Treasurer has said the state is considering subsidies that could make it cheaper for households to transition to electric appliances.
A big change could be coming to one state as the alarm is sounded on how much plastic Australians are eating, drinking and breathing.
The judgment means the federal Environment Minister doesn’t have to consider climate change a factor in approving mining projects.
Aussies are being warned to prepare for a summer from hell, with a higher risk of heatwaves, bushfires and low rainfall being forecast.
Australians have been making the most of the unseasonably high temperatures, with sunseekers flocking to beaches across the country. But as the mercury soars, concerns rise.
The world needs a lot more copper to transition to an electric vehicle age and one mining giant is using AI to help solve the supply crisis.
The latest drought report shows September rainfall averages for the country as a whole were down, causing low soil moisture.
The discount supermarket has announced that it will make some major changes to popular products in order to cut down on plastic.
The world’s largest mining company is warning global climate change aspirations are at risk because investment in a key ingredient to fuel a green future is too low.
A massive swimming spot at the foot of the Blue Mountains, rivalling the size of Sydney Harbour, remains off-limits to the public.
Energy prices are a big part of the cost-of-living crisis crushing Australians, but some Sydney university students and tech visionaries are working on a new fuel that would eliminate power bills.
The orang-utan was filmed dealing with an errant marsupial invading its zoo enclosure, leaving some zoo visitors shocked.
Tension is building over plans for a new “Elon Musk-style” rocket launch site in Australia, with the Greens moving to block the $20m complex.
The cull follows months of dingo mayhem that has put children and women in hospital, but one group says killing is not an “acceptable option”.
David Littleproud says his party supports net zero emissions by 2050, despite an internal push to dump the target.
A local farmer has become “collateral damage in the rush to net-zero” as he waits for the country’s biggest solar farm to be built next door.
A bizarre exchange has capped-off a heated senate hearing into the culling of feral horses in the Alps.
A highly anticipated report into energy reliability and affordability has made a recommendation about Australia’s largest coal power plant.
The ban will see commonplace items such as coffee cups and takeaway containers banned in several states as crackdowns on single-use plastic progress.
A koala with a very big appetite ate his way through thousands of dollars worth of seedlings — until a nursery owner caught him green-handed.
Residents of a quiet coastal suburb are furious about a Chinese developer’s plans to clear native bushland to build a massive “seven-star” resort.
A Canadian politician appeared on Australian radio on Thursday morning with a message that won’t sit well with many Aussies.
The animal became caught in one of the drum lines, a controversial method of deterring shark attacks, and struggled to free itself.
An alarming discovery by environmental investigators has brought logging in a “crucial” forest habitat to a halt.
A vegan activist is accused of storming a restaurant and showing diners images of slaughtered animals coupled with audio recordings of distressed pigs.
Activists have warned that one of the last remaining strongholds of an endangered species is under threat from this activity.
The Prime Minister has announced a huge funding boost for something that “our predecessors ran down and neglected”.
A decision on whether the life of Australia’s largest coal-fired power plant will be extended is imminent amid concerns over energy security.
An Australian renewable energy company has trialled rural internet via satellite, transforming cattle farming for Chris and Kim Whale, and introducing them to the joys of binge watching TV.
Two women were attacked by dingoes on the popular Queensland tourist island in the latest in a spate of similar incidents.
A silvery gibbon managed to swing out of its enclosure at one of Australia’s major zoos on Tuesday afternoon.
An Aboriginal group would be given “unprecedented” control over 10 Victorian councils under sweeping proposals in a secret deal signed by the Andrews government.
It’s not every day that Tame Impala backs your plan to eradicate global plastic pollution and pull carbon out of the atmosphere.
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