Environment news headlines

Jason Breen was dragged below the surface of the water from the impact of being hit by the large animal and his ankle rope snapped.

A report warns "profoundly distressing scenes of suffering" will unfold as records tumble.

A car plunged into a sinkhole that opened up on a bridge in Dundee, Scotland amid torrential rain as Storm Babet ravaged parts of the UK.

Fat Bear Week is an annual tournament-style competition to find the fattest bear at Katmai National Park in Alaska, US.

A shortage of acorns is forcing bears out of the woods in Japan, and it's leading to an increasing number of attacks on humans.

After a lack of winter storms, our beaches are in a state they haven't been in for years, and surfers are not amused.

This could be what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object.

More than 100 dolphins have died in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest in the past week as the region grapples with a severe drought, and many more could die soon if water temperatures remain high, experts say.

Some ancient trees have lived alongside humans for thousands of years. And then they've been been killed in unfathomable acts by humans, or interventions by Mother Nature.

A grizzly bear has been euthanised after it killed a husband and wife hiking in a remote corner of a national park in Canada.

Hours after a 16-year-old was freed on bail, Northumbria Police said a man in his 60s was arrested and is being questioned in custody.

Beijing installed the structure to prevent Filipino fishing boats from entering a lagoon in a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.

A throwaway conversation tipped Andy off to a neighbour's malicious poisoning of a 30-year-old Norfolk pine on the edge of his Sydney.

Rescue teams found the body of the 61-year-old about 45 metres below edge of the high cliff.

A Fuel transfer terminal spilled more than 9,000 litres of diesel in the Kurnell area in April 2022.

After 15 months and more than 14,000 destroyed bee hives, Australia has abandoned its efforts to eradicate the varroa mite and will instead transition towards managing the deadly parasite.

Our fair country has one of the highest rates of pet ownership in the world, but some breeds just can't be brought in.

The crossing at Rafah, in the south of Gaza and the north of Egypt, is fast becoming a lifeline for millions of civilians.

A manatee was spotted recently in a pond in Rhode Island in the United States, according to environmental officials.

Human actions have pushed the world into the danger zone on several key indicators of planetary health, threatening to trigger dramatic changes in conditions on Earth, according to a new analysis from 29 scientists in eight countries.

Spread to major European cities feared after nearly 100 nests are found on the Italian island of Sicily.

But not all observers were wholly impressed by the commitment.

Aussies are urged to have their say on how to wipe out one of our most destructive pests.

La Niña's three-year reign over our weather is over, but now farmers are warning of a new threat.

The fish kill was initially deemed a natural event, but now the EPA is bringing a NSW electricity company to court over the 2022 fish death.

Landmark new research has laid bare the staggering cost of feral pests that Australia pays each year.

A spate of attacks on SUVs internationally suggest the group is not going away anytime soon.

Ember was found in November 2019, walking on the burnt ground in Whiporie in northern New South Wales after devastating fires swept through the area.

Local resident wonders if 'hired guns' came in and knocked down the trees to improve someone's water views.

An upper house inquiry will determine if surging brumby numbers could be controlled by aerial shooting in NSW.

After a late and fairly lucklustre display in 2022, the jacaranda trees of eastern Australia are set for an explosion of purple in 2023

Hikers are being urged not to use sticks as walking aids in a Queensland park, with rangers worried how visitors picking up sticks is impacting the natural environment.

Researchers said it is likely that no chicks survived in four of the five breeding colonies they examined.

It comes after the state government decided to re-install the nets on multiple beaches.

A cloud of volcanic ash spewing from Europe's most active volcano has prompted the closure of one of Sicily's largest airports, leading to flights being delayed, cancelled and diverted.

Crews with cadaver dogs have covered just 3 per cent of the search area, leading to grave fears about how many people have died in the fire.

When NSW Environment Minister Penny Sharpe announced earlier this week that aerial shooting was back on the table as a possible brumby control option, passions rose to the surface, as they always do on this issue.

It is expected to become the state's deadliest natural disaster since a 1961 tsunami killed 61 people on the Big Island.

The wildfires torching the idyllic Hawaiian island are raging out of control, but the true scope of devastation remains unknown.

A food safety expert has likened gathering wild mushrooms to a game of Russian roulette.

DNA confirmed a large 225kg mama bear and her three cubs had busted into 21 houses over the past year, and now they've been caught.

They're long, skinny and boomerang-headed. And they're invading the US.

China's capital recorded its heaviest rainfall in at least 140 years over the past few days as remnants of Typhoon Doksuri deluged the region, turning streets into canals where emergency crews used rubber boats to rescue stranded residents.

A massive fire burning through the desert in California and southern Nevada has scorched tens of thousands of acres in a biodiverse national preserve and torched its iconic Joshua trees.

A Gold Coast community has sealed the deal on its newest resident, naming a young fur seal Looseal.

Western Australian Premier Roger Cook has blasted three "extremist" climate activists over a thwarted plan to allegedly protest outside the home of the chief of Woodside Energy.

It's the first time a price tag has been put on the invasive pest.

Fierce battle lines have been drawn as farmers try to stop a massive multibillion-dollar renewable electricity line carving through their properties.

Phenomenon described by some scientists as off-the-charts exceptional – something so rare, the odds are it happens once in millions of years.

Charges against the operators of the failed REDcycle recycling scheme have been dropped in Victoria.