Warm seawater,crumbling pipes and sudden downpours combine to create a potentially deadly cocktail.
The Boxing Day tragedy comes after two men died in suspected medical episodes at Central Coast beaches on Christmas Day.
Richard Branson’s latest publicity stunt is proof that the technology to solve the airline industry’s carbon emissions dilemma is finally here.
A US law firm claims that BP has used CSIRO research it was allowed to vet in its defence against lawsuits launched over injuries allegedly caused by the world’s largest oil spill.
Water-bombing helicopters and police water cannons have been deployed in a futile bid to put out a huge tip fire that has burned for the past week.
Meet the Australian landscape architects moving away from “making beautiful things and scenery to being about change”.
Before she died,Amara Strande defeated a Wall Street goliath to ban forever chemicals. In Australia,three of these chemicals will soon be banned – but Strande’s family want the entire class of compounds to be outlawed.
Like 20 other students at her high school in middle America,Amara Strande battled liver cancer. She died last April aged 20,but her last crusade saw her home state of Minnesota ban forever chemicals in consumer products. Australia take note.
Most Australians have paid the price after a US manufacturer deliberately covered up the hazardous effects of one of its widely used compounds,legal documents show.
A dust-up is brewing over a proposal to build a plant to clean contaminated soil in Melbourne’s west.
Sydney ranked as the third most polluted city in the world due to the remnant smoke on Thursday morning.