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‘Thundersnow’ strikes Australia

THE weekend didn’t just bring blizzards, it also brought one of the rarest of winter phenomenon to the continent: “thundersnow”.

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Pics to put your Instagram snaps to shame

THESE incredible images made the grade in National Geographic’s best travel photography of 2017 contest.

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NASA issues safety warning for solar eclipse

NASA has issued guidelines for next months next month’s total solar eclipse, with fears many people could be putting themselves at risk.

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On May 29, 2006, hot mud began to pour from the ground near a gas exploration well, covering fields and villages in the Sidoarjo region of East Java, Indonesia. Despite efforts to staunch the flow, the mud kept coming, forming the world’s largest and fastest growing mud volcano. By the time the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this false-color image on October 20, 2009, the erupting mud truly resembled a volcano.

Mystery mud volcano swallows town

THICK, hot sludge burst through the earth’s crust in the middle of a city more than a decade ago. It hasn’t stopped flowing since.

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Ice thinning rate of the Fleming Glacier region during (a) 2002-2008 and (b) 2008-2015.

Unseen danger in iceberg breakaway

DON’T worry about the huge Antarctic iceberg that has just broken away — worry about the glaciers behind it, researchers have warned.

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Aerial image over the outer Geat Barrier Reef in the Whitsundays. Photo Lachie Millard

Finally, some good news for the reef

THERE’S good news for the Great Barrier Reef, but in true political style, a war of words has erupted between who did what, and when.

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2012 Derecho maps. Picture: NWS Storm Prediction Center

The almost silent ‘horizontal tornado’

THE so called “horizontal tornadoes” are hardly noticeable — invisible until they’re on top of you. They are deadly, and then they are gone in a flash.

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Aerial image of the outer Great Barrier Reef off the Whitsundays. Photo Lachie Millard

Australia taking $56 billion risk

SOME say the Great Barrier Reef is priceless but one report has assessed its economic value in dollar terms, and revealed how important it is to Australia.

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Seismograph with paper in action and earthquake - 3D Rendering

‘Fake quake’ freaks out California

RESIDENTS of Los Angeles were warned of a powerful 6.8 scale earthquake that hit the state. There was just one small detail that was wrong.

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colorful grand prismatic hot spring in yellowstone national park aerial Picture: istock

Bizarre goings-on at Yellowstone

A FEARED supervolcano at the Yellowstone National Park in the US has been unusually active, with 464 earthquakes in one week.

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Long-lost wonder of the world located

SCIENTISTS claim the long-lost eighth wonder of the world wasn’t destroyed by a volcanic eruption 131 years ago, instead it was just buried and preserved.

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The IT Artigliere was located in March under more than 12,000 feet of water in the Mediterranean Sea

Sunken ship seen for first time in 77 yrs

A WATERY WWII gravesite has been discovered in the Mediterranean and explored for the first time by the Microsoft co-founder.

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Theunis Wessels mows his lawn at his home in Three Hills, Alta., as a tornado is seen in the background on Friday, June 2, 2017.Picture: Cecila Wessels/THE CANADIAN PRESS

‘I was keeping an eye on it’

NOTHING was going to get between this man and his lawn. Not even an enormous tornado swirling just over the fence.

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Hidden toxins found in Reef water

SCIENTISTS have uncovered a shocking cocktail of chemicals in the blood of Great Barrier Reef sea turtles, from human medications to metals and pesticides.

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Andrew Snelling is not happy with the Grand Canyon National Park

Aussie man sues Grand Canyon

A CHRISTIAN geologist-turned-creationist from the University of Sydney is suing the Grand Canyon National Park for alleged religious discrimination.

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A piece of coral turned white due to stress from the storm.

The picture that should scare Australia

ALARMING images from an underwater expedition in the Whitsundays show just how devastating Cyclone Debbie was, and the damage that could take decades to fully fix.

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Turtle on the Great Barrier Reef. Image for Passport to Tropical North Queensland magazine. Photo courtesy of TTNQ.

The Reef will never look the same

ONE of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, the Great Barrier Reef, will never look the same again despite urgent calls for action.

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Earthquake of Forster in NSW on April 19 2017

Earthquake detected off NSW coast

A 3.3 magnitude earthquake has been detected off the coast of Forster on the New South Wales mid-north coast.

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Bogoslof Volcano - Analysis of shoreline changes at Bogoslof volcano due to eruptive activity between January 11 and 24, 2017. The base image is a Worldview-2 satellite image collected on January 24, 2017. The approximate location of the shoreline on January 11, 2017 is shown by the dashed orange line. Picture: David Schneider, U.S. Geological Survey.

Volcano that won’t stop erupting

AN ISLAND volcano under one of the world’s busiest flight paths has erupted almost 40 times this year and it doesn’t look set to stop.

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Before and after photos of coral bleached and later dying between March and May 2016 off Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef.

Photos expose dying Barrier Reef

IT’S known as one of the seven natural wonders of the world but scientists believe the Great Barrier Reef is dying at an alarming rate.

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These waiting passengers got seriously drenched.

Commuters get smashed by snow dump

THESE commuters couldn’t resist filming a train ploughing into a massive amount of fresh powder snow. But they paid the price.

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Incredible scene at Aussie beach

LOCAL photographers have captured an incredible scene at a remote beach in Tasmania where the water has turned electric blue.

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Kylee & Chris Lee pictured here at their home after a storm ripped through the town of Goombungee in South East Queensland. Pictures: Jack Tran

Storm’s 300km trail of destruction

A STRING of ‘cyclonic’ storm cells have cut a swathe of destruction through southern Queensland — and authorities are warning of more to come.

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Ice House - Lake Ontario in Webster, New York shot by photographer John Kucko. Picture: John Kucko Digital

Homes freeze in US weather chaos

HOMES have completely frozen as the worst winter storm of the season threatens to bring major US cities to a complete standstill.

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King High Tide at 8.50am with water over the road at Budds Beach. The king high tide did not come up enough to stop the traffic from getting past.

Brisbane suburbs set to flood

RESIDENTS warned not to park on the streets as looming king tide and forecasted storms look set to leave parts of Brisbane underwater.

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Shot taken on board the 'Freshwater' Sydney Ferry by self taught photographer who works on the Manly Ferry. Post

Monster wave mauls Manly Ferry

STUNNING photos captured the moment a series of huge waves crashed over the side of Sydney’s iconic ferry service.

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Cyclone Blanche passed pass Darwin on Sunday, continuing onto the Kimberley region. PICTURE: Supplied

Cyclone Blanche heading towards WA

TROPICAL Cyclone Blanche has left a soggy mark on the Northern Territory and is moving on to her next victim.

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ONE TIME WEB USE ONLY PIC BY HERNANDO RIVERA/MERCURY PRESS (PICTURED: THE INCREDIBLE LIGHTNING STRIKING THE ERUPTING LAVA AS IT SPEWS OUT OF THE VOLCAN DE COLIMA IN CENTRAL MEXICO. PIC DATE: 26.01.17) A graphic designer camped out in freezing cold conditions to capture a spectacular shot of an erupting volcano - only for a LIGHTNING BOLT to strike the lava spurt. Hernando Rivera struck gold with the dazzling star-spangled snaps as he sat opposite the famous Volcn de Colima in central Mexico.The photographer took up the perfect vantage point 12km from the centuries-old volcano, which is currently active and surrounded by an 8km exclusion zone.His stunning series of pictures, taken last Thursday, show white-hot lava spouting from the crater 12,500ft above sea level, with the lightning bolt emerging from clouds of black smoke. SEE MERCURY COPY

Moment lightning hits volcanic lava

A PHOTOGRAPHER could hardly believe his eyes when he captured this scene at Mexico’s most dangerous volcano.

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'UFO' like cloud over California. Picture: SWNS/Mega

Super rare ‘UFO’ cloud spotted in sky

INCREDIBLE pictures show the moment the clouds parted as though a spaceship was about to makes its descent into Huntingdon Beach, California.

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Daniel Bull climbing Mt Everest

Everest may not be as tall as we think

IT’S the highest peak in the world, but it might not be as tall as we think. So scientists are taking a tape measure to it.

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