A new study says that the haze produced by fires in southeast Asia causes increased rainfall in Australia by lowering regional ocean temperatures. Particulate matter in the upper atmosphere has been ...

With Australia facing a knife-edge federal poll on May 18, plastic pollution has become an election issue. The Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) is preparing a scorecard of major political ...

Australia is holding its collective breath ahead of a bushfire season that may bring a return of the smoke linked to 400 deaths and 4,500 hospitalizations and emergency department visits during the ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s bid to secure World Heritage status for a site with Indigenous rock art estimated to be 50,000 years old has been dealt a blow after a U.N. advisory body warned it was at ...

(Reuters) - Carbon emissions and electricity demand in Australia have risen in the two months since the government repealed a tax on emissions, bucking a nearly six-year long trend of decline, an ...

Smoke particles from bushfires in Australia have reached South America, in a striking illustration of the intensity of the unprecedented blazes. Satellites show atmospheric pollution created by the ...

Have you recently come across photos of cities around the world with clear skies and more visibility? In an unexpected silver lining to this tragic crisis, urban centers, such as around Wuhan in China ...

Doctors in Australia and New Zealand have issued new guidance, warning of the possible effects of air pollution on pregnant women. A new pamphlet by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of ...