A bushfire exposed an open-air waste dump containing asbestos at a north-west Tasmanian mineral processing plant, but the issue was quietly buried without informing residents or one of the unions repr...

Education program sponsored by Shell’s Queensland Gas Company is ‘climate obstruction dressed up as education’, advocacy group says

The Queensland Museum is being urged to terminate its partnership with Shell’s QCG gas business following claims its branded teaching materials are misleading students on climate change.

Bunnings and Southern Cross Austereo have both been forced to issue red-faced apologies after artificial intelligence made a complete mess of various tasks that had been delegated to it.On Friday morn...

This is a slightly unusual restaurant that was created to promote understanding of dementia and to spread kindness all over the world.

There was a time – and not very long ago – when Australian summers came with a soundtrack. Not the thrum of air-conditioners or the crackle of half-truths on talkback radio, but the whirr of [...]

Revelations of secret F-35 fighter jet parts shipments to Israel have exposed a yawning hole in Australia’s sovereign national defence.

Former Perth curator Mark Harvey is one of the few people on Earth to have described 1,000 new species, many of them arachnids. Colleagues say his legacy is ‘unquantifiable’

Live video from the network news helicopter shows at least six houses destroyed in the Nimbin Road fire at Koollewong on the Central Coast.

Volcanic eruptions in the mid-1340s triggered a chain of events that brought the Black Death to Europe.

Social media is driving a boom in the use of peptides to improve appearance and physical performance. Many are experimental and come with risk of serious side effects

The findings contribute to a controversial debate that pits green technology against the environment.

I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Up to 150,000 residents of El Fasher are missing since North Darfur capital fell to paramilitary Rapid Support Forces The Sudanese city of El Fasher resembles a “massive crime scene”, with large piles of bodies heaped throughout its streets as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) work to destroy evidence of the scale of their massacre. Six weeks after the RSF seized the city, corpses have been gathered together in scores of piles to await burial in mass graves or cremated in huge pits, analysis indicates. Continue reading...

Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.