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The 91 year old monarch has banned the use of plastic straws, cups and bottles from all her estates.

Will Cape Town become the first major city to run out of water?

A water dragon with dappled markings like shadows through leaves tilts her head and waves her arm. It’s not a friendly wave. It’s the water dragon equivalent of the middle finger.

A water dragon with dappled markings like shadows through leaves tilts her head and waves her arm. It’s not a friendly wave. It’s the water dragon equivalent of the middle finger.

Peter Jones was awarded a Rainfall Excellence Award by the Bureau of Meteorology for his work collecting precipitation in Tasmania for over 50 years.

South African City of Cape Town could run out of drinking water in a matter of months, and that's sparked the question if Australia is prepared for similar crisis.

There's yet more disagreement over the Murray Darling basin plan.

The incidence of 'wind turbine syndrome' in countries that don't speak English is low, Simon Chapman says.

How do we strip back our lives, smell the roses, embrace frugality and simplicity?

We take a look at what's making news in regional Australia on the Country Drive.

We take a look at three sectors in which China is beginning to dominate: trade, artificial intelligence and energy.

With more canals than Venice, Queensland’s Gold Coast is a highly altered environment, where remnants of untouched vegetation are few and far between. Yet, tourists still flock there seeking to experience nature first hand among the theme parks, high rises and nightclubs. This is a classic Off Track handpicked from the archives for your listening pleasure.

The Northern Territory Labor Government had commissioned the inquiry as part of its moratorium on fracking.

The debate over electric cars in Australia has accelerated from a quiet idle to a full throttle political controversy.

Miranda Gibson was an unlikely candidate to break the record for Australia’s longest tree-sit. The shy Queenslander had never seen a forest until her early twenties. In 2011 she vowed to live in a tree in the Tyenna Valley until it was protected from logging.

Rising temperatures are killing coral at an alarming rate and scientists worry it could die off completely unless something is done quickly.

From April 21st, residents in Cape Town will be limited to 25 litres of water per person per day

We're off on a fossil dig in north-west Queensland; we go in search of yellow footed rock wallabies in South Australia's northern pastoral region; and check out the latest in chicken couture.

What is the true cost of the meat we buy?

Rebecca Jones went back in time to see how farmers dealt with drought in Australia.