Weather and Climate change

A report examining the risks of

Residents and local businesses in Portsea on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula are blaming dredging for major beach erosion over the past 12 months.

It's routine to cast the Menzies years as a sleepy, wasted age where nothing much happened.

A study of tree rings has provided the most detailed record yet of at least four epic droughts that hit Asia over the past millennium, including one that helped end China's Ming Dynasty in 1644.

Scientists are seeing the violent and dynamic processes of the Sun in unprecedented detail thanks to a new spacecraft launched by the United States.

Australian scientists say data collected from underwater buoys will provide a benchmark for measuring global

Scientists say a global network of thousands of underwater robotic buoys has provided further evidence of global warming.

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Malcolm Turnbull has always taken the lead in his career, never afraid to pursue his ambitions both in business and politics.

For a topic so seemingly controversial up until now, there was surprisingly a lot of agreement in the hearing room during the six days of evidence on fuel reduction burning in the Victorian Bushfires Commission.

The latest debate on

Nick Minchin's departure from politics after the next election will be a huge body blow to the Liberal Party right, all the more so if Tony Abbott performs poorly and the moderates move to regain the ascendancy.

Britain's advertising standards authority has banned two government advertisements for overstating the risks of

Australian scientists say they have uncovered a "causal link" between the early emergence of a common butterfly and human-induced global warming.

A Liberal Senator has accused the Federal Government of turning the CSIRO into a political puppet on the issue of

A federal parliamentary report on the effects of

A new report says Australia could cut its emissions by 25 per cent by 2020 through measures which would cost households less than $4 a week.

Two of the nation's top research bodies - the Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO - have come out strongly in defence of the science behind global warming.

The head of Australia's peak science body has spoken out in defence of