The Latest Breaking News from Tanya Plibersek

A non-profit group is imploring the new federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek to consider the climate change impacts of 19 fossil fuel projects currently pending approval, drawing on a rarely used legal provision that will require her to reconsider the findings of her predecessors.

A Queensland environment group is trying to force the re-examination of the biggest fossil fuel projects planned in Australia.

The greater glider lost more than a third of its habitat during the Black Summer bushfires and has remained vulnerable to logging and a warming climate.

It's taken six years for the greater glider to slide from relatively common, to threatened and now endangered under the latest federal listing.

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Environment minister receives enthusiastic welcome in Lisbon and flags five blue carbon projects to safeguard ocean health

Five new blue carbon projects will be funded across Australia in the battle against climate change, the environment minister has told the UN Ocean Conference.

During the federal election campaign, Labor promised to future-proof Australia’s water resources. Now, new Water Minister Tanya Plibersek must deliver on the policy – one vital to securing Australia’s future.

Australian fisheries management says there are regional differences and new data only applies to population in New Zealand