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A whale spotted at Bundeena.

‘Incredible’: Antarctic whale spotted at popular Sydney beach

An Antarctic whale rarely seen off Sydney was frolicking in the warm summer waters on Monday.

  • Jessica McSweeney

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Shark nets could be removed permanently from Sydney beaches.

Why shark nets might not return to Sydney’s beaches next summer

The science has been clear for some time that the mesh nets do little to protect humans, yet do much harm to non-target animals. The politics is finally catching up.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
A bluefin tuna which fetched at 207 million yen (US$1,315,485) at the first auction of the year, is displayed at Toyosu Market in Tokyo Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025.

Tuna weighing as much as a grizzly bear sells for $2.1 million in Japan

One of the most expensive bluefin tuna to be sold in the history of sushi was snapped up by a Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant chain.

  • Leo Sands
The orca known as J35 (Tahlequah) carries the carcass of her dead calf in the waters of Puget Sound off West Seattle, Washington.

An orca that carried her dead calf for weeks in 2018 is doing so once again

The mother, known as Tahlequah or J35, has been seen carrying the body of the deceased female baby since Wednesday.

  • Claire Rush
More than 40,000 bluebottle stings are reported each year.

The three Sydney beaches that revealed how to dodge bluebottles

More than 40,000 marine stings are reported every year. But this could be the last summer bluebottles invade without warning.

  • Angus Dalton
For the past decade, Julie Keating has spent most of her waking hours guarding seabirds on the Maianbar foreshore.

The ‘crazy bird lady’ standing between Sydney’s shorebirds and extinction

Rain or shine, Maianbar resident Julie Keating is on the Port Hacking foreshore protecting migratory and resident shorebirds almost every day from July to March.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Ulysses Ecosystem Engineering robot main picture WAtoday. Pictures: Supplied

The restoration robot saving Cockburn Sound

A drone shipped in from the United States is sowing thousands of tiny seeds on the ocean floor between Fremantle and Rockingham.

  • Connor McGoverne
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek.

Plibersek made a vow on environmental reforms. Albanese has put that at risk

It appears the prime minister has put Labor’s political survival ahead of the survival of Australia’s endangered species

  • Nick O'Malley and Bianca Hall
The Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation has launched an investigation into the cause of death of hundreds of fish along the Brisbane River.

Hundreds of dead fish wash up along the Brisbane River

State wildlife authorities are investigating the mysterious deaths, stretching from St Lucia all the way up to Seventeen Mile Rocks.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Lost emperor penguin Gus is returned to the wild in WA home page pic with carer Carol Biddulph.

Emperor penguin returns to wild after swimming 3500km to WA coast

The penguin, affectionately named ‘Gus’ by wildlife carer Carol Biddulph and her husband Graham, is now free to swim home to Antarctica.

  • Holly Thompson

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