Companies face being named and shamed, and consumers could enjoy more options for recycling electronic goods under proposed changes to product stewardship legislation.

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology is giving Australians greater access to the world's most extensive weather and climate observation network through a new app that has already attracted 10 million user sessions in two weeks.

The Morrison Government will commit $190 million to a new Recycling Modernisation Fund that will generate $600 million of recycling investment and drive a billion-dollar transformation of Australia’s waste and recycling capacity.

A unique, rocky tract of scrubland in Western Australia, hosting the oldest known minerals on Earth, has been added to Australia’s National Heritage List.

Australia’s largest ever renewable energy project, Snowy 2.0, has been given the green light to create thousands of new jobs and put downward pressure on electricity prices.