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An unexpected freak storm swept through a Pilbara town destroying several houses. Picture: Marble Bar Community resource centre.

’Mini tornado’ destroys homes in freak storm

Several homes have been destroyed after a freak storm unexpectedly tore through a remote town on Thursday night.

ON HOLD : Embargoed for The Daily telegraph. 15.8.2024 Dr Andrew Forrest stands in front of a new green energy haul truck. The Christmas Creek mine is an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, 61 km south-south-west of Nullagine. Picture: Rohan Kelly

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Why Twiggy still invests in Australia’s hard yakka

There is a growing pride in Australia’s ability to do anything it turns its mind to, and rightly so, writes Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest.

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Warm days and nights will continue until the end of the week for much of Australia. Picture: BOM

Grim weather map will ruin your weekend

Authorities are warning residents to stay alert of changing dangerous weather conditions across the long weekend.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JANUARY 23, 2025: People line up to catch a glimpse of the Corpse flower, Bunga Bangkai, as it begins to bloom in Sydney for the first time in fifteen years. Picture: NewsWire / Nikki Short

Bizarre reason for massive Sydney queue

The ultra-stinky Putricia the Corpse flower has finally bloomed at Sydney’s Botanic Gardens, treating visitors to its repugnant smell for the first time in 15 years.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MARCH 15, 2022: Generic images of flat white coffee in take away cup. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Andrew Henshaw

State’s huge change for coffee drinkers

The way you drink coffee in this one Aussie state has dramatically changed this week.

Sea ice levels in Antarctica have registered historic lows for three consecutive years, portending grave consequences for life on Earth as we know it.

Antarctica’s alarming threat to humanity

A historic low recorded has prompted fears from scientists who say there are grave consequences for life on Earth as we know it.

Heat stress is causing bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef at the Keppel Islands. Picture: TropWATER/JCU

‘Mass bleaching’ fears over 1100km of reef

There are fears the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing its seventh mass bleaching event after widespread bleaching was observed.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JANUARY 12, 2024: Signage on fences around a closed Sydney's Rozelle Parklands. Sydney's Rozelle Parklands is closed not long after it opened in December last year due to asbestos being found in the park.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Damian Shaw

‘Toothless’: Fury over asbestos delay

The mayor of a local council which became ground zero for Sydney’s asbestos-contaminated mulch scandal has lashed the state’s peak environmental body for their delay in cleaning up a major park.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JANUARY 12, 2024: Signage on fences around a closed Sydney's Rozelle Parklands. Sydney's Rozelle Parklands is closed not long after it opened in December last year due to asbestos being found in the park.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Damian Shaw

‘Toothless’: Fury over asbestos delay

The mayor of a local council which became ground zero for Sydney’s asbestos-contaminated mulch scandal has lashed the state’s peak environmental body for their delay in cleaning up a major park.

Isabele Roberts on her family's Ridgehaven Poll Dorsets property at Cudal NSW. Isabele is a finalist in The Weekly Times Coles 2023 Farmer of the Year Awards. Picture: Rachael Lenehan

Meet Australia’s best farmer

Farming is moving with the times – as demonstrated by a family officially declared Australia’s pick of the crop.

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GROHNDE, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 08: Steam rises from cooling towers of the Grohnde Nuclear Power Plant on November 08, 2021 near Grohnde, Germany. The 1360 megawatt plant, which is operated by PreussenElektra, is scheduled to shut down at the end of this year. In all four nuclear power plants across Germany are scheduled to cease operation by the end of 2021 as part of Germany's ongoing exit from nuclear power. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Big fat facts missing from nuclear power debate

Finding the debate over nuclear power super-annoying? You’re not the only one, writes David Mills.

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The earthquake was 23km deep and was felt from Whanganui to Wellington. Picture: GeoNet

New Zealand rocked by magnitude 4.7 quake

New Zealand’s North Island has been rocked by a magnitude 4.7 earthquake detected near the capital.

SafeWork NSW has been referred to the ICAC

ICAC referral over killer stone failure

A workplace regulator has been referred to the watchdog over a faulty air-monitoring device which was supposed to protect vulnerable workers.

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Lung virus infection and coronavirus outbreak or viral pneumonia and coronaviruses influenza as a dangerous flu strain cases as a pandemic medical health risk concept with disease cells with 3D render elements.

‘Nightmare’: Grim sign of next pandemic

The possibility of a new pandemic has been raised after a disturbing discovery on the remote Antarctica continent.

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