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Ruby with friends Sabrina Santos and Alana Ramshaw enjoy Dawn Fraser Baths.

Sabrina and Alana love their harbour pool. They just want cleaner water

Beachwatch said pollution was unlikely on the public holiday afternoon when the friends had their swim. Yet, Herald testing earlier this month revealed dangerous levels of bacteria on an equally busy hot day.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Kayla Olaya

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Sydney water quality testing

Revealed: Sydney’s cleanest and dirtiest places to swim

How dog poo on the streets is thwarting efforts to clean up Sydney’s harbour and rivers for swimming.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons, Nick O'Malley and Alyssa Talakovski
University of Sydney Professor Stuart Khan says consumer goods should be tested for PFAS residues.

Your home is full of these chemicals. Your tap water provider wants them banned

The nation’s drinking water providers have called on Australia to ban chemicals found in around 900 household products.

  • Carrie Fellner
Authorities have been accused of failing to do enough to make visitors to Jervis Bay aware of cancer-causing contaminants.

Cancer-causing chemicals a ‘dirty little secret’ in tourist hotspot

Authorities have been accused of encouraging visitors to a NSW tourist hotspot without doing enough to warn them about toxic contamination in the region.

  • Carrie Fellner
An aerial view of the Wheeny Creek site in northern Sydney, now partially grassed over.

Buyers snap up toxic waste dump

The site of a contaminated waste dump in Sydney’s north-west fringe has quietly changed hands for a fraction of its former value.

  • Ben Cubby
Black balls washed ashore at Gordons Bay in Sydney in October 2024.

Sydney’s ‘unusual’ sewage system and the beach grime ball invasion

Sydney’s pumping of primary-treated effluent into the ocean makes us out of step with the rest of the world, a water engineering expert said.

  • Angus Dalton
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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.

Two Sydney beaches remain closed after discovery of mystery debris balls

A number of northern beaches were 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
Gif showing how cameras monitor the self-service checkout at supermarkets

Happy new year? Not for me, unless we ban these annoyances

The world is full of problems, but we can make it a little better by outlawing a few nuisances.

  • Dan Kaufman
Melbourne’s western suburbs.

Growing pains in Melbourne’s booming west

In a series, The Age explores what makes the western suburbs the place to be and what’s holding them back.

Marie and Brian Long have suffered the effects of pollution in Brooklyn for decades.

‘It’s beautiful, but we’d like fresh air’: Life inside Melbourne’s most polluted suburb

The Age explores why the western suburbs are Australia’s fastest-growing region, and what’s holding them back from realising their full potential.

  • Sophie Aubrey

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