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Finalists in the prestigious Ocean Photographer of the Year award have gone on display, from tiny crustaceans to giant surf and minke whales.

Global climate talks are taking place in the Amazon - the "lungs of the world" - as political headwinds threaten to blow multinational collaboration off course.

Fishing businesses are under pressure from a warming planet as a group of academics explores a novel, self-sustaining pathway to fund climate adaptation.

With a third of families worrying about their next meal, the nation's top hunger relief charity has a plan to get food marked for landfill onto people's plates.

Some of Australia's key cropping regions have experienced the exact weather conditions known to trigger a mouse plague, prompting a warning to farmers.

Climate change puts workers at huge risk, politicians have been told by nurses that treated mass thunderstorm asthma and firies who tackled Black Summer blazes.

Consumers in some states will be able to use electricity without charge for three hours a day under a market offer designed to spread solar benefits.

Australia's voluntary battery recycling scheme will be allowed to continue but with limited uptake, the public could benefit if more devices were collected.

Environmental reform analysts have weighed in on the federal government's bid to modernise Australia's dated nature protection laws, calling for a key change.

Thousands of dead seabirds washed up on Australia's coastline two years ago following a marine heatwave and scientists warn history could repeat.

Environment Minister Murray Watt is keen to get the almost 1500-page environmental protection reforms cleared through the senate by the end of the year.

Many communities are being asked to host large-scale renewables projects and co-ownership has been billed as a way for regions to extract meaningful benefits.

Heat exposure, drought and natural disasters are causing deaths and economic havoc in Australia and around the world, according to a major global report.