Environment

An Iranian man has told ABC News "black rain is falling from the sky" in Tehran in the wake of Israeli attacks on oil depots.

King penguins on islands in the Southern Ocean are breeding earlier and with a higher level of success than they did 24 years ago, a new study shows.

Residents in the Adelaide Hills town of Kanmantoo and surrounds have been dealing with a growing regularity of pungent odour but the fertiliser company, who pleaded guilty to environmental breaches, says its chicken litter presents no risk.

Birds are starving and dying along metropolitan Adelaide beaches, caused by a lack of fish as a result of the algal bloom, the South Australian government says. 

Ian Wright captured the Franklin River blockade on film. Forty years later, the officer who arrested him reached out.

Scientists are calling on the Australian government to push back on a plan to scrap hundreds of jobs at the nation's science agency, as they await the release of further details this week.

Owners of older homes are being urged to have their energy efficiency assessed, with experts saying improvements will not only make them more comfortable, but help them save money as well.

Nineties kids didn't dawdle on the way home from school in the afternoon. This was the age of appointment television, and that appointment was with Ranger Stacey on Totally Wild.

A possum and a glider long thought extinct have been rediscovered in New Guinea by a group including Australian mammalogist Tim Flannery.

Residents of a quiet street in Bondi are split after men wearing high-vis and wielding chainsaws allegedly illegally destroyed a tree.

Labor has vowed to abolish public school fees for primary and high school students from 2027, if it's returned to government, while the Liberal Party said it will commit $4.3 million to stop stormwater litter reaching South Australia's coastline.

In the centre of Australia, there are whispers that Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre is experiencing conditions strangely similar to those that set a record depth of 6 metres in 1974.

Conservationists hope a smelly plan to reintroduce Australian bush rats into a nature reserve in Sydney this weekend could help repair urban ecosystems. 

As they advanced in age without a child to carry on the line, many expected the Akuntsu to vanish when the three remaining women died.

The sound of a horse's whinny is created by the low frequency vibration of vocal cords combined with a high frequency whistle, a new study reveals. 

The ice runway at Wilkins Aerodrome is a critical asset in the Australian Antarctic Program, but getting it ready for flights is nothing short of extreme.

Fishing licence buybacks and long-term restocking plans are some of the recommendations in the latest report into South Australia's harmful algal bloom, which has been labelled as "vanilla" by one scientist turned political candidate.

US mining giant Alcoa is forced to pay $55 million after unlawfully clearing parts of a Western Australian native forest to mine bauxite.

Sources say the actions will likely affect Aboriginal communities and that the investigation was not shared with the public.

The federal government funds $26 billion of incentives each year that may be harmful to the environment and is yet to report on its international commitments, researchers say.