This has to be the most incredible creature I've seen this year. I've seen golden brushtail possums before, but not one like this ❤️ Luckily she didn't suffer the same fate as her mum, and a family stopped to help. au.news.yahoo.com/couples-shock-…

If you've taken a dip in the ocean and felt the waters are strangely warmer, then you’re not wrong. A new map produced by UNSW using 40 years of satellite data highlights how waters around most of Australia are steadily heating. au.yahoo.com/news/worrying-…

An unwanted inheritance of National Australia Bank shares has been put to unlikely use by an impassioned 70-year-old. He's added his name to a shareholder resolution facilitated by Australian Conservation Foundation, calling on the lender to stop financing deforestation. au.finance.yahoo.com/news/retiree-t…

Had a yarn with Peter Garrett about how Australia can be a global "force for good" on tackling climate change. He said the government had made a "poor decision" in approving the extension of Woodside's North-West Shelf, and he hoped it would reconsider. au.news.yahoo.com/midnight-oil-r…

It's been confirmed that the call of another Australian mammal has been heard for the last time. The Christmas Island shrew was declared extinct on the IUCN Red List. au.yahoo.com/news/australia…

Excitement is brewing that Migaloo, the world-famous white whale, may have been spotted again for the first time in five years. Here are the first pics. au.yahoo.com/news/frenzy-of…

An image of a black dingo was used for a controversial council campaign, sparking an uproar from the photographer and advocates for the Australian native animal. au.news.yahoo.com/council-delete…

Dugong numbers are declining across the world, but Australia and the Persian Gulf are defying the trend. Here's why au.news.yahoo.com/australia-bran…

When wildfires burn across Australia's outback, few people know or care. They should. au.news.yahoo.com/mega-blaze-in-…

Australia and the Persian Gulf have defied a trend as dugongs disappear from the world's oceans, as a new report from Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) reveals. au.news.yahoo.com/australia-bran…

Monitoring cameras set up in a remote corner of an Australian national park have captured something that hasn’t been seen since the 1990s, a long-footed potoroo in NSW. Exciting! au.news.yahoo.com/camera-capture…

Plastic Halloween spider webs are known to entangle birds. For years, people celebrating the tradition have been urged to stop hanging them. It hasn't worked. Now the focus has shifted to the supermarkets and other retailers that stock them. au.news.yahoo.com/coles-woolwort…

Anyone seen a tiger snake hunting for fish in saltwater before? This could be the first time it's ever been photographed. I had a chat with the farmer who witnessed it, and the Australian Herpetological Society to find out more. au.news.yahoo.com/farmer-capture…

👎Fake single-use plastic spider webs outside 👍 Reusable cotton webs

After securing a US$8.5b deal with the US, Australia is promising to fast-track rare earth production. Amid the race to extract and refine, experts say China's environmental mistakes should act as a "cautionary tale" for Australia. au.yahoo.com/news/australia…

One of Australia’s largest irrigation companies has “unintentionally” transformed kilometres of channel into a “death trap” for wildlife. The problem occurred after Murrumbidgee Irrigation upgraded the concrete-lined walls with slippery black plastic. au.yahoo.com/news/aussies-d…

Annually, there were upwards of 100 collisions between kangaroos and vehicles on a 6km stretch of road in NSW. So locals raised $12k to buy a virtual fence. Then someone stole it. au.news.yahoo.com/community-shat…

After dedicating 18 months and 1 million computer processing hours (CPU) to create a single image, astronomers in Australia have released a new expansive view of our galaxy from the Southern Hemisphere. au.news.yahoo.com/incredible-new…

Queensland is considering a controversial change to the laws governing dingoes, which would see them reclassified as domestic dogs. The proposal has sparked controversy because it could result in them being legally kept as pets for the first time. au.news.yahoo.com/controversial-…

A petition containing thousands of signatures has been tabled in Victoria’s parliament, calling for an inquiry into the government’s decision to shoot koalas from helicopters. For close to 30 minutes, politicians from all sides gave fiery speeches au.news.yahoo.com/calls-for-inde…