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The WA Government has declared the entire Exmouth Gulf as a marine park. Picture: WA Gov

Tourist site set for marine park protection

A major Australian habitat for humpback whales, dugongs, dolphins and sea turtles will soon get marine park protection.

NSW Mid North Coast Floods May 2025 -Ghinni Ghinni. Picture: NewsWire Handout/ Transport NSW

Reason 640 flood grants rejected

Almost half of claims for small business grants in flood-smashed NSW regions were knocked back, a budget estimates hearing has been told.

The fish are washing up on the shore of the Swan River. Picture: Parks and Wildlife Service, WA

Shocking sight across exclusive suburbs

The most expensive suburbs in one capital city are awash with an unwanted sight, although others on the food chain are having a field day.

Residents in an Adelaide Hills town face evacuation as engineers race to prevent a damaged dam from bursting.

Homes threatened by dam failure

Emergency services are doorknocking homes as a 40-million-litre dam shows signs of failure, sparking flood warnings.

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Sydney commuters are being warned to take extreme caution on the roads on Friday morning as a thick blanket of fog covers the city.

‘Dangerous’: Warning as fog blankets city

Sydney commuters are being warned to take extreme care as fog covers the city, creating dangerous conditions.

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Sinkhole at Tunks Park, Cammeray in Sydney's north. Picture: 9News

Sydney cops month of rain in one day

The record rainfall comes with roads across NSW cut off due to major flooding, while two men are dead after crashing into a river during heavy rain.

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Sinkhole at Tunks Park, Cammeray in Sydney's north. Picture: 9News

Sydney cops month of rain in one day

The record rainfall comes with roads across NSW cut off due to major flooding, while two men are dead after crashing into a river during heavy rain.

hance of rain for Saturday in Perth and surrounds. Picture: BOM

‘Drenched’: City shatters 29-year record

Sydney’s not the only city being blasted by rain, with another Aussie capital hitting a rare weather milestone for the first time in nearly three decades.

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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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Web art: Algal bloom crisis Square

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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