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'It was lovely': How a storm battered Garry's idyllic lifestyle
This year was Sydney's hottest year even without massive heatwaves but a monster mid-year storm provided the wildest weather.
This year was Sydney's hottest year even without massive heatwaves but a monster mid-year storm provided the wildest weather.
Battlelines are being drawn as seaside communities brace for the biggest planning overhaul in decades.
The elusive night parrot has had a shroud of mystery surrounding it since its rediscovery in 2013 after being unsighted for 75 years.
Sydney is headed for a scorching end to 2016 as tropics-like heat and humidity push their way into Australia's south-east.
Baird government approves expansion of one of the biggest coal mines in Sydney's water catchment without knowing its impact.
The first band of what forecasters predict will be the region's most powerful storm in a decade moved into Northern California on Saturday evening, prompting official warnings of widespread flooding and epic snowfall in mountain areas.
A stubborn heatwave is settling in across the state with little relief in sight for days.
SeaWorld San Diego is ending its long-running killer whale show after years of outcry and falling attendance prompted it to renounce theatrical orca displays.
Melbourne Renegades defend the decision to hang two giant JumboTron screens above the arena for Saturday night's Big Bash League derby.
An enormous rift in one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves grew dramatically over the past month, and a massive chunk could break away as soon as later this summer, British scientists reported this week.
Tilikum, the killer whale featured in the documentary "Blackfish" that made the case against keeping orcas in captivity died on Friday, SeaWorld officials said.
A spill of heavy fuel oil in Sydney Harbour raises fresh concerns from local residents about the safety of Australia's oldest storage depot.
Most of NSW will endure heatwave conditions from now until at least the middle of next week as a hot air mass moves in from central Australia.
If you want to save an elusive porpoise from being wiped out forever, why not try a team of dolphins, specially trained by the US Navy to detect undersea mines?
He was quite the catch: young, good looking and fit. Spotted lounging in a tree not far from the edge of a road, this koala was a welcome addition to a study which hopes to shed light on why the Somers koala population is in decline.
Sydney will get its first burst of summer heat in 2017 starting from the weekend, as dreary conditions make way for the sun.
Australia posted its fourth-hottest year in 2016, driven by record sea-surface temperatures around the nation, in a period marked by frequent extreme events, the Bureau of Meteorology said.
Chickens are just as intelligent as many of their feathered friends and demonstrate thinking skills on par with mammals and primates, a US scientist has discovered.
Evidence the earth saw a slowdown in global warming over the past couple of decades has been further eroded
To the uninitiated they don't look like much to get excited about. Perhaps the only intriguing thing is that their bulbous bodies are a milky-white, rather than dark brown or black. But these tadpoles are special.
"It feels like you are at the centre of the Earth."
A time-lapse video of smog rolling into Beijing offers a jarring new perspective of the pollution that has been afflicting the Chinese capital in recent months.
If solar panels topped Suncorp Stadium, the Queensland Performing Arts Centre and Roma Street Station, they could generate electricity for 1200 homes and save 5414 tonnes of carbon emission a year.
First came the clouds of mosquitoes, then the swarms of flies and now insect experts are warning that teams of termites could be hard at work in homes across Melbourne.
Melbourne is trapped under a mass of thick cloud one month into summer, because of a weather event known as "anticyclonic gloom."
China has announced that it was banning all commerce in ivory by the end of 2017, a move that would shut down the world's largest ivory market and could deal a critical blow to the practice of elephant poaching in Africa.
The carp herpesvirus could take out more than just the noxious fish.
After a scorching and humid week Sydney's heatwave is set to recede tomorrow, just in time for new year celebrations.
Opportunistic whales have forced researchers to reconsider whether long-line fishing in Australia's southern waters is as eco-friendly as first thought.
A champion horse was stolen from the grounds La Perouse Pony Club in Chifley in the early hours of Christmas Eve.
Thursday marked the first day of the summer that a Sydney weather station recorded the mercury touching 40 degrees.
Swimmers at the south coast might want to take extra care in the ocean after more than a dozen sharks have been spotted on the NSW south coast in the past 48 hours.
A scorching end to 2016 will ensure Sydney registers its hottest year in more than a century-and-a-half of records.
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