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Unusual weather conditions have wreaked havoc for potatoes in South Australia, with farmers warning the current conditions have caused a shortage for one of the country’s most popular vegetables.

Farmers warn shortage of popular vegetable

Australians can expect to see less of this food staple on their supermarket shelves after farmers suffered through one of the worst droughts in years.

Unusual weather conditions have wreaked havoc for potatoes in South Australia, with farmers warning the current conditions have caused a shortage for one of the country’s most popular vegetables.

Farmers warn shortage of popular vegetable

Australians can expect to see less of this food staple on their supermarket shelves after farmers suffered through one of the worst droughts in years.

Severe weather warnings have been issued for multiple Aussie states as “damaging” wind gusts reaching up to 163kmh pelt the country’s south.

Homes still without power as floods loom

Emergency crews have responded to more than 100 calls for help as destructive winds, flood warnings and snow loom over Australia’s south, leaving thousands without power.

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake has rattled a nation of 115 million, prompting a tsunami warning and mass evacuations across the country.

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7.4 magnitude quake rocks Asian nation

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake has rattled a nation of 115 million, prompting a tsunami warning and mass evacuations across the country.

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A handout photo made available on July 17, 2020 by Polar Bears International shows a polar bear with its cubs in the Sea Ice, northeast of Prudhoe Bay in Alaska in 1985. - Climate change is starving polar bears into extinction, according to research published on July 20, 2020 that predicts the apex carnivores could all but disappear within the span of a human lifetime. In some regions they are already caught in a vicious downward spiral, with shrinking sea ice cutting short the time bears have for hunting seals, while dwindling body weight undermines their chances of surviving Arctic winters without food, scientists reported in Nature Climate Change. The study calculates

Almost no Arctic sea ice loss seen in 20 years

Scientists say a dramatic slowdown in Arctic sea ice loss over the past 20 years is “surprising” but consistent with global warming trends.

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Flood warnings extended as prolonged drenching set to strike three states in the next 36 hours

Rain onslaught to bring another drenching

Flood-weary residents are bracing for rivers to rise dangerously as a weather system threatens days of more relentless rain across several states.

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Anthony Albanese on Kangaroo Island. Picture: X

Albo acts on algae crisis – but won’t apologise for response timing

The Prime Minister has pledged $8.5m in new funding for South Australia’s algal bloom crisis but stopped short of declaring it a natural disaster.

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New detail as ‘catastrophic’ outbreak spreads

An invasive species responsible for hundreds of deaths in the US has spread into Queensland, with new details on what sparked the “catastrophic” outbreak.

More than 30 dead turtles washed up on beaches across NSW's Hunter Region, prompting the National Parks and Wildlife Service to launch an urgent investigation. Picture: Supplied

Disturbing find on popular beaches

Scores of dead sea turtles have washed up on popular beaches, some with disturbing symptoms that have stumped conservationists.

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See it from space: Algae horror hits new heights in shock photos

New space imagery reveals South Australia’s algal bloom has spread across 4500sq km of ocean as international experts race to contain the crisis.

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Image: Radar image for southwest WA on the morning of Tuesday, August 19, 2025. Source: Weatherzone

State on alert for return of floods

Aussies are bracing for impact as a huge rain system looms over the east coast, bringing a renewed threat of flooding to one state.

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Image: Radar image for southwest WA on the morning of Tuesday, August 19, 2025. Source: Weatherzone

State on alert for return of floods

Aussies are bracing for impact as a huge rain system looms over the east coast, bringing a renewed threat of flooding to one state.

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Marine expansion of Tasmania’s salmon industry will be paused for an independent review. Picture: NewsWire / Supplied

‘Shameful’ move in Aussie salmon industry

Expansion of the salmon industry in one Aussie state has been halted in a major decision slammed as being “shameful” and “strangling growth”.

A surfer has had a close call with a shark at Cabarita Beach, weeks after a teenage boy was bitten at the same break. Picture: Facebook

Pic shows surfer’s lucky escape from shark

A surfer has come within inches of being the second shark bite victim at a NSW beach in the space of two months.

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