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Clearer and bigger fonts and icons on packaging labels could prevent Australian households discarding about $2500 a year in edible food.

One third of Australians believe misinformation circulating about electric vehicles, a study has found, with a conspiracy mindset most often to blame.

Australia could unlock billions in electricity savings if more households add a battery to their solar panel plans, a report has found.

More information on whale migrations could help pave clearer and safer pathways through intensifying human activity.

A report has quantified the economic impacts of climate philanthropy for the first time, highlighting the potential future benefits.

Floodwaters filling the nation's biggest lake are creating a rare event that is expected to bring an explosion of life and vegetation to the usually dry area.

Analysis by Treasury estimates that the immediate loss of economic activity from natural disasters so far in 2025 will be $2.2 billion.

Drought, sea level rise and more water evaporation from higher temperatures are ratcheting up lagoon salt contents to potentially harmful levels.

The pressure is on to secure international support to curb destructive industrial fishing including along a vast underwater tract off Australia's Pacific coast.

More renewable energy projects should go ahead in Australia and be approved faster after Labor's federal election win, experts say.

Australia could replace carbon-intensive coal and gas exports with green iron and quadruple earnings, a report says, but only if it makes changes.