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A whale shark that popped up beside a boat off the coast of Bermagui.

The water is so warm, even whale sharks are heading south for summer

The ocean giants are commonly seen at Ningaloo Reef in WA. Astonishingly, one turned up on the NSW coast.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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Bull sharks enjoying warm waters at Spit West Reserve over the weekend.

Warmer Sydney waters mean longer shark season

Climate change is raising sea temperatures and making conditions more hospitable to bull sharks and tiger sharks.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
A whale spotted at Bundeena.

‘Incredible’: Antarctic whale spotted at popular Sydney beach

An Antarctic whale rarely seen off Sydney was frolicking in the warm summer waters on Monday.

  • Jessica McSweeney
Shark nets could be removed permanently from Sydney beaches.

Why shark nets might not return to Sydney’s beaches next summer

The science has been clear for some time that the mesh nets do little to protect humans, yet do much harm to non-target animals. The politics is finally catching up.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
A bluefin tuna which fetched at 207 million yen (US$1,315,485) at the first auction of the year, is displayed at Toyosu Market in Tokyo Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025.

Tuna weighing as much as a grizzly bear sells for $2.1 million in Japan

One of the most expensive bluefin tuna to be sold in the history of sushi was snapped up by a Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant chain.

  • Leo Sands
The orca known as J35 (Tahlequah) carries the carcass of her dead calf in the waters of Puget Sound off West Seattle, Washington.

An orca that carried her dead calf for weeks in 2018 is doing so once again

The mother, known as Tahlequah or J35, has been seen carrying the body of the deceased female baby since Wednesday.

  • Claire Rush
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More than 40,000 bluebottle stings are reported each year.

The three Sydney beaches that revealed how to dodge bluebottles

More than 40,000 marine stings are reported every year. But this could be the last summer bluebottles invade without warning.

  • Angus Dalton
For the past decade, Julie Keating has spent most of her waking hours guarding seabirds on the Maianbar foreshore.

The ‘crazy bird lady’ standing between Sydney’s shorebirds and extinction

Rain or shine, Maianbar resident Julie Keating is on the Port Hacking foreshore protecting migratory and resident shorebirds almost every day from July to March.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Ulysses Ecosystem Engineering robot main picture WAtoday. Pictures: Supplied

The restoration robot saving Cockburn Sound

A drone shipped in from the United States is sowing thousands of tiny seeds on the ocean floor between Fremantle and Rockingham.

  • Connor McGoverne
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek.

Plibersek made a vow on environmental reforms. Albanese has put that at risk

It appears the prime minister has put Labor’s political survival ahead of the survival of Australia’s endangered species

  • Nick O'Malley and Bianca Hall

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