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Sydney's wettest March in 33 years at least a plus for mushroom hunters
March has not just been great weather for ducks - but also for mushroom pickers.
Peter Hannam is Environment Editor at The Sydney Morning Herald. He covers broad environmental issues ranging from climate change to renewable energy for Fairfax Media.
March has not just been great weather for ducks - but also for mushroom pickers.
Two resignations from the board of the Climate Change Authority come with criticism of the Turnbull government.
The Great Barrier Reef is dying on our watch, and that's almost all we're doing.
Hundreds of Sydney home owners will be out inspecting damage to their properties on Thursday with rain and even a possible storm hindering the clean-up.
Strong wind gusts and "sideways rain" have lashed Sydney and the Central Coast, leaving more than 33,000 homes without power.
Another soggy journey home awaits Sydneysiders on Tuesday evening with storm cells moving in from the north-west.
The wet weather seems to be encouraging nature of the slithering kind to hunt out the great - and dry - indoors.
Pressure on China's leaders to cut pollution from coal is likely to intensify - potentially hurting Australia's exports - with new research showing Beijing's air quality will get worse with climate change.
The critical reef tourism industry in Queensland is about to take a dive.
The world is 33 months into its biggest recorded coral bleaching event with little sign of it ending, raising the prospect that coral mortality on the Great Barrier Reef will increase "significantly" from the quarter already lost in the past year, scientists say.
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