The Latest Breaking News from Kirsty Howey

The Northern Territory's growing cotton industry could harm Top End river systems, damaging the fishing and tourism businesses, a report has warned.

The outcome of a Senate inquiry into a Northern Territory gas field is uncertain following months-long delays and the commencement of a new federal parliament.

Destruction of Northern Australia's tropical savannas – considered one of the last untouched regions in the world – is increasing at a rapid rate and new draft guidelines aimed at minimising greenhouse gas emissions from land clearing are "taking us in the opposite direction", environmentalists say.

Conservationists fear one of the world's most pristine river networks is under threat, as well as sacred sites and tourism gems, as the Northern Territory government moves to allow "aquifer mining" amid "dangerous decision-making".

Pastoralists facing the prospect of a new Northern Territory mining push to get the metals needed for renewable energy batteries fear their environmental concerns will be ignored.

Electric cars, solar panels and wind turbines — green technology relies on what can be a dirty industry. Why acting on climate change may require a massive increase in mining.

Confidential documents show representatives from the McArthur River Mine in the Northern Territory had a hand in the appointment of its own key oversight body, as environmentalists question the integrity of the latest glowing report card on the mine's environmental performance.

Expansion is designed to grow vast fruit, nut and cotton crops, but environmentalists say it could be disastrous for the region on the WA border

A legal fight is brewing between cattle producers opposed to fracking and a mining company that is looking to explore for gas in the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin.