A young boy has relived the moment he was attacked by a shark while surfing, leaving him screaming for help in the water when his board was smashed to pieces.
Blake Antrobus
It's hoped a $28 million funding package will help resolve an unprecedented environmentally disastrous algal bloom that's killing thousands of sea creatures.
Savannah Meacham
Sydneysiders hoping for a break from the rain which smashed the city this weekend will have to keep waiting, forecasts suggest.
Blair Jackson
In news no Aussie will want to hear, experts have now made a gloomy prediction for Spring following a winter marred by wet, wild weather.
Andrew Hedgman
Participants in the City2Surf race were left freezing and frustrated after copping a brutal downpour of rain, as Sydney recorded its wettest August in almost a decade.
Blair Jackson, Alexandra Feiam
From disrupted trucking routes to teaching in hot classrooms, the changing climate is already being keenly felt by Australian workers.
Poppy Johnston
Marine life in Vanuatu, one of the world's most disaster-prone regions, is slowly recovering after a series of cyclones and a major earthquake in recent years.
Staff Writers
A local council has taken drastic action to stop a beloved pastime – which has been around for generations – amid complaints of ratepayers footing the bill for damages.
Emma Kirk
Millions of dollars are spent every year on one simple, but gross mistake many Australians are making.
New research reveals a World Heritage-listed glacier is undergoing its most significant retreat in a century.
Melina Walling
Australia will defy a US demand in yet another sign that Canberra and Washington are seeing the world through different lenses.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
A Bill to expand hunting rights would create a “taxpayer-funded propaganda unit” and turn state forests into “game parks”, opponents warn.
Nathan Schmidt
A poll has revealed almost 8 in 10 Aussies want stronger climate action to prevent risks from bushfires and extreme weather events.
Dashcam footage has captured the moment a rare celestial fireball streaked across Perth's night sky at 34km per second, leaving stargazers in awe.
Denmark’s Wilson Inlet opened on Wednesday morning, with an excited community crowd turning out to Ocean Beach to watch the meeting of the inlet and the Southern Ocean.
Jacki Elezovich
Details of how a woman was rescued from a river after being swept away in a raging torrent have been revealed.
An entire city’s drinking water could be at risk of nutrient pollution from effluent discharged from sewage treatment plants.
A powerful cold front is sweeping in, set to drench the region with heavy rain and raise the risk of flash flooding throughout the weekend.
Emma Kirk, Jack Nivison and Andrew Hedgman
In a bid to find solutions to the cockatoo crisis, local governments, conservation champions and wildlife experts have gathered for a think tank.
Craig Duncan
Hopes for a "last-chance" ambitious global treaty that tackles the full life cycle of plastic pollution have dimmed.
Melbourne’s Lord Mayor believes a First Nations seasonal calendar is far more accurate when it comes to understanding Australian conditions.
Jack Nivison
Two of the Great Barrier Reef's three regions have recorded their sharpest declines in coral coverage in four decades as heat stress batters the living wonder.
Streamlining environmental approvals is dominating the agenda ahead of Jim Chalmers’ economic reform roundtable, with a push for a national deregulation plan proving to be even bigger than tax reform.
Katina Curtis
Plans to convert a park into the 2032 Olympic centrepiece are facing legal action from an Indigenous group who say it will damage a significant cultural site.
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