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A CSIRO report has warned climate change will threaten the region's economy and security unless governments and aid agencies start preparing for its impacts.
The two-part CSIRO report was commissioned by a new coalition of aid, church and development groups.
It warns that a two degrees Celsius increase in temperature by 2030 will have a devastating impact in northern Pakistan, India and western China.
Victorian Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu has defended his water policy after criticism from the Government and Environment Victoria.
Victoria's Water Minister has hit out at the Opposition's plan to build a new dam at Arundel, near Melbourne airport.
The thick haze from forest fires in Indonesia that enveloped Singapore's skies and sent its pollution index to a nine-year high has cleared up markedly.
The New South Wales Greens say they will be pushing the major parties to drastically change their policies on fossil fuels in the lead-up to next year's state election.
The Victorian Opposition is proposing a dam at Arundel in Melbourne's west to try to ease the state's water shortage.
Conservationists warn the sighting of an indian myna bird in Launceston should sound alarm bells for the Tasmanian Government.
The New South Wales Government is defending its multi-million water patrols in Sydney.
Technicians in Indonesia struggling to divert a vast mud flow into the sea failed again in their attempts to move the noxious sludge by pump, an official said.
Singapore's environment agency has issued a health advisory as thick haze from fires in Indonesia choke the city-state.
The EPA says a 30,000-litre petrol spill at Pearcedale, south of Melbourne, may have broader impacts.
A mysterious disease is threatening the endangered orange-bellied parrot.
The well-known conservationist Peter Storey, who took a leading role in the campaign to save Tasmania's Franklin River, has died at his home in Koonya, on the Tasman Peninsula.
City gardeners facing strict water restrictions this summer could learn a lesson from their rural counterparts.
The Victorian Government has ruled out cloud seeding as an option for drought hit regions of country Victoria.
Recreational fishers say they are not to blame for dwindling numbers of grey nurse sharks on the east coast of Australia.
A meeting of angry Sunshine Coast residents last night formed an action committee to fight a Maroochy Shire plan to establish a human waste 'bioreactor' in bushland near their homes, at Kulangoor, north of Nambour.
The Queensland Environment Minister is supporting changes to the way the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) protects the reef, after a review of its operations.
The Queensland Opposition says nearly three-quarters of the Government's vegetation management compensation package still has not been spent five months out from the close of applications.
The New South Wales Government has awarded the contract for an engineering company to develop a 20 year strategic plan to secure the Barwon-Darling River system.
Coliban Water has rejected claims Bendigo will run out of water.
An environmental consultant has warned there will be a massive drop in rainfall in Tasmania's north-east if a proposed pulp mill goes ahead.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that air pollution in cities across the globe is causing more than 2 million premature deaths every year.
A Nationals' MP wants the Victorian Government to embrace cloud seeding as a drought-saving measure.
The Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Service (NTPWS) says it has now removed three crocodiles from popular waterways in the greater Darwin Region during the past 24 hours.
The Bendigo council, in central victoria, fears the city will run out of water before a $70 million pipeline from the Goulburn system is built by the end of next year.
The author of a new book on ways to better manage water says all users should have to account for the way they use the resource.
A leading climate change expert has told a summit on alternative fuels that the Federal Government has no far reaching strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The New South Wales Government has defended its protection of grey nurse sharks and described a potential legal challenge against it as a "waste of money".
The federal Environment Minister says Prime Minister John Howard has not pre-empted a Commonwealth assessment of a proposed expansion to open-cut mining at the McArthur River mine, near Borroloola in the Northern Territory.
Improvements to a program which prevents thousands of tonnes of salt entering the Murray River near Mildura will officially open today.
The New South Wales high country's river watchdog says it is disappointed the State Government will not be allocating extra water after it has cleaned up pollution in the Snowy River.
The Federal Government-appointed panel investigating nuclear power has visited the sites of major overseas nuclear disasters, including Chernobyl and Three Mile Island.
Animal conservation groups are considering legal action to force the New South Wales Government to better protect the grey nurse shark.
The ACT Conservation Council has supported moves to introduce tougher water restrictions in Canberra from next month.
Queensland's Acting Premier says she will return to the proposed Mary River dam site within a few months to reveal its exact location.
The Northern Territory Chief Minister has defended the Prime Minister's decision to write to her, lobbying for the expansion of the McArthur River mine near Borroloola.
Australia's engineers say water has been too cheap for too long and changes are needed.
A conservation program monitoring turtle activity, which operates from Exmouth, in north-west Western Australia, has been short-listed for a National Landcare Award.
Illegal trail bike riders are being warned they risk heavy fines if they are caught in the New South Wales north coast region's national parks.
Canberrans could soon be facing tougher water restrictions, including a ban on sprinklers, hosing down paved areas and filling up pools.
A sewage treatment area in Byron Bay, on the NSW north coast, is set to become a must-see destination for tourists.
The Prime Minister says the expansion of the McArthur River Mine, on the Northern Territory's east coast, should go ahead because it will add to the national wealth of the country.
The Queensland Fishing Party says the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) got off lightly in the Federal Government's review of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act.
Claim and counter-claim are continuing over the economic benefits of the proposed $1.4 billion pulp mill, which Gunns plans to build in Tasmania's Bell Bay.
The United Nations needs to stop the destruction of deep sea ecosystems by banning fishermen from trawling nets on the ocean floor, Australia, New Zealand and Palau say.
Acting Queensland Premier Anna Bligh says the State Government is very close to finalising its plans for the Traveston Crossing dam.
The Total Environment Centre says the production of Australia's first diesel enhanced with biofuels in Newcastle is a good start for the industry.
The Northern Territory Minister for Mines, Chris Natt, says he was unaware Prime Minister John Howard had written to the Chief Minister about the McArthur River Mine, until it was mentioned on the ABC.
The hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica has beaten the record size logged six years ago, the United Nations' weather agency says.
The Barwon and Namoi rivers in western New South Wales have stopped flowing, threatening Walgett's water supply.
Tasmanian businesses and the State Government are at odds over whether a new Hobart hospital hinges on the proposed Bell Bay pulp mill going ahead.
The Tasmanian Government has welcomed a compromise between the mining and tourism industries in relation to land use in the state's north-east.
The National Climate Centre (NCC) has confirmed the chances of Australia avoiding the grip of an El Nino weather pattern this spring are virtually nil.
Prime Minister John Howard's intervention in a mining approval process could spark a Federal Court challenge by a Northern Territory environment group.
The chairwoman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) has welcomed recommendations the authority be reviewed every five years.
A Northern Territory Government aerial survey of the Tiwi Islands north of Darwin will begin this week to assess their potential for mining.
The visible gas cloud coming from the Zinifex zinc works in Hobart could be gone by the end of next year.
Northern Territory health officials have embarked on a public education campaign in provincial East Timor, teaching locals how to monitor and control disease-spreading mosquitoes.
The Federal Government is using Tasmania's biggest and newest water recycling scheme as a national example of how to save water.
Federal Environment Minister, Senator Ian Campbell, has defended increasing fishing closures on Queensland's Great Barrier Reef but says the matter was poorly handled.
The State Government has announced the preferred builders of a recycled water pipeline in south-east Queensland.
The Alice Springs Town Council has had to scale back a major recycling project because it is no longer economically viable.
The Australian Greens have called for a full investigation after revelations that there was a secret operation to influence the Victorian Labor Party's forestry policy.
Federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell says it could be six months before he makes a decision about heritage listing for the Burrup Peninsula in the north-west Pilbara region of Western Australia.
The Yass Council hopes to finalise proposals for solving the current water crisis by Christmas.
The Western Australian Government has unveiled a campaign to eradicate 40 species of weeds.
Councils in south-east New South Wales are moving to increase recycling.
Victorian Premier Steve Bracks says he knew nothing of a covert campaign in the 1990s by former workers of a packaging company to infiltrate the state ALP and influence its forestry policy.
The Murray Darling Basin Ministerial Council has released dire predictions about future water allocations in the river system.
The Gorgon Group has presented new information to the appeals convenor which some believe calls into question the environmental assessment of its multi-billion dollar gas project.
Federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell says the Government will heed a recommendation from the controversial review of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act that the current zoning plan be frozen.
South Australian River Murray Minister Karlene Maywald is urging state governments to follow SA's lead in appointing independent commissioners for water issues. | 