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Nine Beaches from Manly to North Narrabeen have been closed due to potentially hazardous ball-shaped debris found washed up along shores.

Nine Sydney beaches closed after discovery of mystery debris balls

A number of northern beaches have been closed after ball-shaped debris was found in the sand, following similar balls being discovered on eastern suburbs beaches last year.

  • Jessica McSweeney and Josefine Ganko

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A concept image rendering of the proposed whitewater facility in Redland City, earmarked for the Olympic canoe slalom events, from March 2021.

‘Ugly stepsister’: SEQ community backs Sydney whitewater venue over local Games build

A Redlands community alliance has opposed the venue’s sustainability and financial viability, echoing Senate findings that Australia cannot support two whitewater rafting facilities.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
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
Santos supplies about one-fifth of WA’s gas needs through Varanus Island.

‘Deep regret’: Santos hit with $10k fine over Pilbara oil spill

Energy giant Santos has been hit with a $10,000 fine over an oil spill at its processing facility off WA’s north-west after being dragged to court by the state’s workplace regulator.

  • Jesinta Burton
Unknown vandals have drilled multiple holes into a hundred year old fig tree, poisoning it.

Fight to save Hunters Hill trees after ‘calculated act of vandalism’

Injected with poison, razed and drilled with multiple holes. Now the latest in an alleged string of “calculated” attacks against Sydney’s trees has left residents fuming.

  • Cindy Yin
Tasmanian Salmon

Is farmed salmon a guilty pleasure this Christmas?

Tasmanian salmon will be on the tables at thousands of Christmas lunches. Questions remain about the environmental cost.

  • Mike Foley
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The discovery of asbestos at Rozelle Parklands prompted the Minns government to set up the name-and-shame register.

The environmental offenders being named and shamed by the government

The new name and shame register was promised after the discovery of asbestos at the Rozelle Parklands in January.

  • Michael McGowan
The original location of the spinifex had been significantly degraded by trampling as it was being used by surfers as an unofficial lookout.

Council’s slap on the wrist over Trigg dune clearing triggers state environmental questions

A minor infringement over the clearing of dune vegetation has some residents of the City of Stirling up in arms.

  • Claire Ottaviano
Peter Dutton once claimed a small modular nuclear reactor would produce only a Coke can’s worth of waste.

Dutton said a reactor’s waste would fill a Coke can. Try 27,000 of them

Australia would face a big nuclear waste task under the opposition’s energy policy, which would generate hundreds of barrels of spent nuclear fuel a year.

  • Mike Foley
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visits salmon farms in Macquarie Harbour, on Tasmania’s west coast.

Albanese weighs in again on Plibersek’s portfolio with salmon farming pledge

Labor’s two most high-profile rivals are at it again, as the PM backs a fishy business.

  • Mike Foley

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