Could whales be neighbours with oil platforms? Federal Resources Minister Martin Ferguson has just released new offshore oil leases, and some lie in areas that are flagged as potential marine sanctuaries.

Following the Australian government’s decision to delay an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) till 2012, the U.S. government has released their own ETS draft along with other plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions under a new climate bill.

Solar Power has been around for years. But thanks to nanotechnology, scientists have developed ways to make it a more affordable energy source for everyone. Indi Wood reports.

BHP Biliton’s proposed desalination plant for its Olympic Dam expansion is causing a stir as they prepare to erect the plant at Point Lowly near Whyalla.

The campaign by environmental activists to close Hazelwood, Australia’s dirtiest power station, is set to intensify with a demonstration planned for Thursday. Jenny Jagerhorn reports. Image: simpsons fan 66

Australia’s top researchers are leading the charge to find an alternative to the oil crisis with a solution that would make Mother Earth herself proud as Lauren Said-Moorhouse reports.

What began as an initiative to clean up dirty palm oil production practices, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil has become little more than a greenwashing tool. Rebecca Zhou reports.

While the world’s attention is focused on the 2009 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, the Pacific Island country of New Caledonia is quietly struggling with its own climate change burden. Nicole Gooch reports from New Caledonia.

In Canberra on Saturday, protestors from Climate Change Canberra and numerous other environmental groups along with local residents held an emergency rally in front of Parliament House, writes Geoff Lazarus.

With only two months until the Copenhagen Conference, the closure of Australia’s only large-scale solar energy station is not only detrimental to the renewables industry but serves to highlights the government’s course on carbon reduction. Rebecca Zhou investigates.