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Increasing global use of electricity is set to be a major focus at the COP31 summit in Turkey, but a report finds progress is falling short.

The government has defied critics and bad weather to highlight climate threats to Pacific nations but pre-COP31 also turned the spotlight on its commitments.

There are 'bright spots' of species recoveries, from otters to tigers and tuna, but the global decline of nature continues, WWF says.

Australia's bushfire crisis may be linked to British colonisation, with researchers finding increased risk goes beyond the influence of climate change alone.

Road and internet projects in small Pacific nations will get greater climate protection but a report warns much larger investments could be needed.

The tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu will host presidents and prime ministers to demonstrate the starkest impacts of rising sea levels before major climate talks.

Disease-carrying mosquitoes thrive in warmer temperatures, raising concerns over the impacts of climate change and what it means for Australia's tropics.

New mapping techniques have revealed the footprints to cave networks so vast, they appear metres beneath Australia's longest narrow road.

Australia could lead an international research mission to go where no ship has gone before: an enormous ice basin capable of raising global sea levels.

Global delegates have descended on an Australian city to mark a major whale conservation anniversary and discuss new threats to the marine mammals.

From additional heat to the loss of coral and glaciers, an online tool promises to calculate the effect of coal, oil and gas developments.

The consequences of the searing heat caused by the current El Nino period will cause a staggering number of additional deaths worldwide, researchers calculate.

Anthony Albanese has urged leaders to take more action on climate change - saying community resilience to natural disasters can only go so far.