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From Australia’s iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge to Britain’s Buckingham Palace and India’s Taj Mahal, some of the world's greatest landmarks will briefly darken tomorrow night for Earth Hour.

Australia’s federal Labor government is strengthening its protection of the World Heritage listed Great Barrier Reef to prevent the United Nations from stripping it of its status. However, the

A massive $23 billion gas project in the northern Australian state of Queensland is to be expanded, creating an extra 2000 jobs in rural areas. The owners of the

A United Nations (UN) mission has said an assessment by the minority federal Labor government that coal seam gas developments would have minimal impact on the World Heritage

Orica, the chemical company already involved in numerous chemical spill problems in New South Wales is now accused of releasing waste water containing high levels of cyanide into

The global conservation group WWF has questioned whether the minority federal Labor government ignored its own science to mislead a UN agency about the health of the Great

The controversial dredging of Gladstone Harbour in northern Queensland has now prompted a $20 million compensation claim by local fishermen and business owners. The company behind the dredging project,

High levels of dissolved copper and aluminium have been found in central Queensland’s Gladstone Harbour, which has been at the centre of a fish disease outbreak. Despite the find

The Queensland government has insisted that dredging is not to blame for tests that show elevated minerals levels and infected fish at Gladstone Harbour. Department of Environment and Resource