We can’t coast along in the face of fierce storms

Ron Cox   A lot of coastal development has taken place in locations we now know to be inappropriate. How do we fix it?

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CSG wastewater tanks adrift in flood

Peter Hannam   What's in those bubbles, anti-CSG activists want to know.

Key koala habitat for sale

Peter Hannam   'Surplus government land' up for auction is in the path of these koalas' spring ritual.

'There's a real spike in the graph'

Peter Hannam   A March heatwave and warm sea-surface temperatures made autumn unusually warm.

Sydney set to cop a soaking

Peter Hannam   Better plan for a weekend spent largely indoors if you live in coastal NSW - and keep the mops and buckets handy.

'By far the biggest ever month'

Peter Hannam   A windy May across south-eastern Australia helped smash wind energy generation records.

Trees cocooned in webs as spiders take refuge in flood-hit Tasmania

Megan Levy   It's an arachnophobic's worst nightmare. As the flood emergency continues to grip parts of Tasmania, millions of tiny spiders have evacuated their waterlogged nests and burrows and taken refuge in the trees in the town of Westbury, near Launceston.

Meet the fish that's taken control of a jellyfish

Esther Han   Underwater photographer Tim Samuel was in search of sea turtles when he encountered the most bizarre pairing he'd ever seen in his life.

Collaroy seawall delayed by funding row

Daisy Dumas, Nick Ralston and Ava Benny-Morrison   Volunteers are racing against the clock to shore up vulnerable beachfront homes in Sydney's north ahead of the arrival of another king tide on Tuesday night.

Damaging winds in ACT alpine areas on Thursday

Higher parts of ACT could receive wind gusts up to 90 kilometres per hour on Thursday, meteorologists have warned.

Canberra zoo's Bakkar the Bengal Tiger dies, aged 21

Katie Burgess   Canberra's National Zoo and Aquarium's elderly Bengal tiger, Bakkar has died.

Island corals 'slimy' after bleaching

Corals surrounding Great Barrier Reef island turn shade of brown.

Collaroy Beach before and after photos

Collaroy Beach has lost 50m of sand following the massive storms and king tides that hit Sydney over the weekend.

Sydney storm: erosion swallows 50 metres of Collaroy, Narrabeen beaches

Megan Levy, Ava Benny-Morrison, Daisy Dumas   Huge waves and king tides pummelling the NSW coast have eroded away about 50 metres of Narrabeen and Collaroy beaches, where a number of badly damaged waterfront properties remain at risk of toppling into the sea, an expert says.

Sydney starts to count storm chaos costs

Nick Ralston, Rachel Olding, Ava Benny-Morrison, Megan Levy   At least three people are dead, buildings on Sydney's east coast are on the brink of collapse and parts of the city's south-west still submerged in water as the destruction from a weekend of wild storms and huge seas became evident on Monday.

No criminal charges for mother in gorilla death case

Mark Berman, Sarah Larimer and Lindsey Bever   The mother of a three-year-old boy who tumbled into a gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo late last month won't face criminal charges in the wake of the incident, a prosecutor in Ohio said Monday.

Battered Sydney recovers after extreme weather

Esther Han, Rachel Olding, Georgina Mitchell   Sydney is recovering after a weekend being battered by a major storm fuelled by an east coast low pressure system.

Wild weather claims several lives in NSW and ACT

Rachel Olding   Wild weather across the country has claimed three lives following three incidents of cars being swept away in flood waters.

Sydney storm: Motorists die in floodwaters, coastline eroded

Three motorists have died in the floodwaters following the NSW storms.

Lake George holds water for the first time in several years

Katie Burgess   As quick as Lake George started to hold water due to rain lashing the region, the water subsided.

Homes teeter on the edge in Collaroy as coastline washed away

Ava Benny-Morrison, Nick Ralston   Homes on Sydney's northern beaches have been partially washed away in the violent storms that battered the NSW coastline over the weekend.

Sydney storms: Narrabeen-Collaroy beach lashed by large seas

Louise Hall   The intense storm lashing the NSW coast appears to have caused significant erosion at Narrabeen-Collaroy beach on Sydney's northern beaches.

There's plenty more rain to come in Canberra

Natasha Boddy   Canberra received a month's worth of rain in a day over the weekend, but escaped the worst of the region's wild weather.

Sydney wipeout: Residents evacuated, coastlines eroded as wild storms hit NSW

Louise Hall, Michael Evans   Residents were being evacuated from low-lying areas around Sydney on Sunday night and huge seas were threatening to engulf coastal homes as wild storms battered the state for a second day.

SES stays on high alert as king tide adds to coastal flood

Greg Ellis   The highest tide of the year at the end of a weekend of torrential rain had the SES on high alert on Sunday night.

Sydney weather: State lashed by wild storms

Josh Dye, Rachel Browne   The state has been lashed by wild weather.

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Bob Brown's new campaign: development through the Tarkine

Adam Morton   Former Greens leader Bob Brown is trying to get backing for a development in pristine Tasmanian wilderness – in order to save it.

NSW Weather: Storms hit NSW South Coast

Adam Wright and Louise Hall   The far south coast was battered by wild weather over the weekend, with reports of damage across the region. 

Flood evacuation order as wild weather pummels Sydney

Louise Hall   Sydney's Vivid lights were dimmed, and some events cancelled, as winds and rain pummeled NSW and threatened to flood at least 23 river valleys.

There's plenty more rain to come in Canberra

Clare Colley   Canberra received a month's worth of rain in a day over the weekend, but escaped the worst of the region's wild weather.