Climate, environment, and energy
Australia's renewable energy goals are collapsing under the weight of grid delays and bureaucratic bottlenecks, not green ideology. AEMO projects transmission projects will slip by two years as costs surge 100%.
Oliver Pemberton 
Forecasters predict ex-Tropical Cyclone Narelle will redevelop into a severe category 3 or 4 system as it moves back over Indian Ocean waters, potentially threatening Western Australian communities from the Pilbara to Perth.
Priya Narayanan 
Melbourne Zoo is preparing its primates for increasingly intense Australian summers with a combination of ice enrichment, water features and climate-controlled spaces.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
Cyclone Narelle made a rare double landfall across northern Australia, first devastating far-north Queensland before striking the Northern Territory. The system now threatens Western Australia.
Yuki Tamura 
Communities across the Northern Territory are girding for Tropical Cyclone Narelle after weeks of record rainfall. The reintensified system threatens damaging winds and further flooding in already waterlogged areas.
Yuki Tamura 
Rangers at Melbourne's Darebin Parklands have raised alarm after discovering that boxes installed for sugar gliders and microbats were dismantled twice in December, suggesting a potential poaching operation targeting protected native species.
Aisha Khoury 
Golf ball-sized hail fell on Sydney and surrounding regions Saturday as a severe thunderstorm brought flash flooding, damaging winds, and significant disruption across Western Sydney.
Yuki Tamura 
When Cyclone Narelle struck far north Queensland on Friday, residents of the small town of Coen found themselves without a dedicated shelter, forced to gather in the local pub as destructive winds tore at buildings around them.
Kate Morrison 
Tropical Cyclone Narelle made landfall as a high-end Category 4 system on Queensland's Cape York Peninsula, bringing destructive winds and heavy rainfall to remote communities including Weipa and Aurukun.
Victoria Crawford 
A Queensland meat processor has been told to stop producing 'strongly offensive' odours that neighbours describe as boiling meat mixed with burning hair or septic smells.
Sophia Vargas 
Tropical Cyclone Narelle made landfall in Far North Queensland as a category four system, becoming only the fourth such storm to cross the state in 50 years and threatening already flood-ravaged communities.
Riley Fitzgerald 
Tropical Cyclone Narelle is forecast to make landfall on Cape York Peninsula on Friday as a dangerous Category 5 system, bringing wind gusts of up to 285 km/h and heavy rainfall to a region already reeling from recent flooding.
Mitchell Tan 
Sydney's latest deluge exposes vulnerability to extreme weather events as forecasters warn of a potentially volatile 2026 marked by swinging conditions and a probable El Niño event.
Aisha Khoury 
A burst of heavy rain flooded Sydney's Guildford train station and several arterial routes as thunderstorms moved through the city. Multiple rail lines have been affected by flash flooding.
James Callahan Australia's renewable energy transition is on track, but political uncertainty and financing delays risk missing a critical window. The fuel crisis should force Australia to act faster.
Fatima Al-Rashid Australia's renewable energy assets hit a 5TWh generation milestone in February 2026, but experts warn the current trajectory risks missing the 82% clean energy target by 2030.
Liam Gallagher-Walsh 
Tropical Cyclone Narelle is forecast to make landfall near Coen, north of Cairns, as a Category 4 system with wind gusts exceeding 200 km/h. The cyclone is the third major weather event to strike Far North Queensland in two months.
Yuki Tamura 
Research into 370 Sydney homes shows demolition and rebuilds result in massive garden losses and dramatic driveway expansion, threatening the city's tree canopy targets.
Aisha Khoury The Murray-Darling Basin's water storage collapsed by 44 gigalitres in just one week, hitting 48% capacity. With 40% of Australia's farms in the Basin and $30 billion in annual agricultural production at stake, the water crisis is forcing a reckoning on policy and technology.
Fatima Al-Rashid Melbourne's water storages have fallen to 69.7%, the lowest level since July 2020. With autumn forecast to be drier than normal, households need to understand what's coming and what they can do.
Ella Sullivan