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How the inferno that reduced parts of LA to ashes was years in the making

A deadly combination made LA dangerously combustible, triggering a disaster – and authorities warn the worst is yet to come. Here’s how the crisis unfolded.

  • Nick O'Malley

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A firefighter asks for more water as his hose goes dry along in Los Angeles.

Fire hydrants run out of water as Los Angeles fires rage

The scale of the fires overwhelmed water supply in the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood, requiring “four times the normal demand” for 15 hours straight, one outlet reported.

  • Chris Zappone
Fisherman Jack Martin at Tower Beach.

Fresh tests ordered for cancer-causing chemicals at popular Sydney beach

The Botany Bay waters where young families swim and fishermen cast their lines have not been tested since 2018. That’s about to change.

  • Alexandra Smith and Cindy Yin
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Straining to fathom water filters

Overall, it’s a bit of a dampener.

Hair-raising footage filmed in the past month at Port Melbourne where jet skis illegally speed within 200 metres of the shore line in a swimming zone.
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Jetskis behaving badly at Port Melbourne

Hair-raising footage filmed in the past month at Port Melbourne where jet skis illegally speed within 200 metres of the shore line in a swimming zone.

A new mobile water filtration plant will be installed at Katoomba to remove cancer-linked PFAS contaminants from tap water supplies.

‘This is a great win’: Forever chemicals to be filtered from tap water

A mobile filtration plant will clean up tap-water supplies tainted by a plume of cancer-linked “forever chemicals” in the Blue Mountains.

  • Carrie Fellner
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Speaking ahead of a lecture this week about the environmental, political and social impacts of generative AI at Victoria’s State Library, Australian AI expert Professor Kate Crawford said that the technology’s rampant popularity was worsening what’s an already dire climate crisis.
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Every time you use ChatGPT, half a litre of water goes to waste

Tech giants including OpenAI, Meta and Google are being urged to tackle AI’s dirty secret – its massive power problem.

  • David Swan
Alexandrium minutum is normally found in clean water off the coast, but was detected this month in the Shoalhaven River.

Deadly algae detected in popular NSW river

A rare toxic algae that can prove fatal to humans has been detected just weeks after a catastrophic industrial accident.

  • Catherine Naylor
How bureaucrats worked to keep ‘forever chemical’ finds secret.

The test results Seqwater tried to keep secret, and how they came out

Brisbane residents were asking the government-owned water authority for information on “forever chemicals” in order to protect themselves. Seqwater kept quiet.

  • William Davis
PFAS in Brisbane drinking water.

‘It’s hot data’: Alarm over ‘forever chemical’ found in Brisbane drinking water

Previously unreleased water test results reveal a cancer-causing chemical has been detected at seven times the level deemed dangerous by US authorities.

  • William Davis

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