Climate, environment, and energy
South Australia is experiencing its driest 32-year period on record. Adelaide's water future now depends on desalination plants and innovations that bypass rainfall entirely.
Meg Hadley 
Cyclone Narelle is tracking towards the Queensland coast and is expected to cross as a category 4 system, bringing heavy rain, flooding, and dangerous winds to Far North Queensland.
Oliver Pemberton Australia's renewable electricity supply has surpassed 50% for the first time, hitting a milestone in its journey toward 82% by 2030. But rapid generation growth is colliding with a critical bottleneck: the grid infrastructure needed to transmit and balance this variable power.
Oliver Pemberton 
A tropical low system moving towards far north Queensland could intensify into a cyclone by week's end, threatening already waterlogged communities with renewed rainfall and flooding.
Sophia Vargas 
A diesel spill on a Brisbane motorway has created traffic delays stretching up to 16 kilometres during morning peak hour, with road closures remaining in place as emergency crews manage the incident.
Aisha Khoury 
Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest to prevent development, accumulating 50,000 acres across 15 counties and making permanent conservation donations worth tens of millions.
Sophia Vargas 
As Australian e-waste spirals, refurbished electronics offer both fiscal and environmental sense. Here's what savvy shoppers need to know before buying secondhand.
Yuki Tamura 
Australia's red centre has experienced its heaviest rainfall in a decade as a slow-moving low-pressure trough brings unprecedented moisture to central regions.
Yuki Tamura 
A 941-home estate being built on a former golf course in Dingley Village has banned artificial grass, joining a growing number of Australian councils restricting the synthetic material over environmental and health concerns.
Darren Ong 
Home Island's 450 residents, descendants of workers brought to the Cocos Islands nearly two centuries ago, confront a government proposal to relocate them within decades as sea levels rise.
Priya Narayanan In late January 2026, south-eastern Australia experienced its most severe heatwave since 2019–20, with temperatures exceeding 50°C. Climate science reveals an uncomfortable truth: human-caused warming has made such events five times more likely.
Victoria Crawford 
Motorists rescued from floodwaters in Far North Queensland as residents hundreds of kilometres inland prepare for unprecedented river rises, with some areas waiting a week or more for major flooding to peak.
Yuki Tamura 
A man has been found alive two days after disappearing into a flooded river from a houseboat, as Queensland battles relentless flooding across multiple regions following months of heavy rain.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
An audit of Australia's environmental offsets scheme has found that roughly one in seven projects approved under national environment laws failed to meet their compliance obligations, prompting questions about the system's integrity.
Samantha Blake Australian homeowners are facing an immediate $1,200 hit to annual insurance bills from 10 March 2026 as climate disasters and rising reinsurance costs force the industry to pass the burden to customers. Over 1.24 million households are now in affordability stress.
Darren Ong 
Australians building efficient homes are rediscovering how to ventilate properly. It turns out, opening windows briefly and strategically can save energy and improve health.
Jake Nguyen 
The British government is pursuing sweeping nuclear regulatory reforms to cut costs and speed construction, but experts warn the strategy mirrors previous overambitious infrastructure pledges with little to show.
Samantha Blake 
A significant sewage overflow down a residential street in Western Australia has left local residents fuming, with some forced into emergency accommodation as authorities address the infrastructure failure.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
Australia faces another month of above-average rainfall in March as a tropical weather phenomenon continues to pummel flood-ravaged communities. Some regions have already recorded record-breaking downpours.
Sophia Vargas 
HP faces renewed pressure over its practice of blocking third-party printer ink through firmware updates. A new global environmental standard aims to close the loophole.
Oliver Pemberton