Environment
Sydney set for coldest March morning in 15 years this weekend
It may have only just ticked into autumn, but Sydneysiders will be reaching for their winter coats this Sunday as temperatures plummet, marking possibly the coldest March day in 15 years.
- by Matt Bungard
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Biodiversity
Frogs face mass destruction from imported disease: ANU scientists
The pandemic ripping through populations of frogs, toads and other amphibians.
- by Steve Evans
Extreme weather
'Great concern': world meteorology agency reports bad climate tidings
The world's ocean heat content reached a record high last year and extreme weather events affected the lives of about 62 million people, displacing more than 2 million of them, the World Meteorological Organisation said.
- by Peter Hannam
Biodiversity
Canberra waterways - and platypus - suffer under record temperatures
Poorer water quality may have driven Canberra's celebrated platypus to Lake Burley Griffin.
- by Steve Evans
Recycling
Australia faces deepening recycling crisis as India bans plastic waste imports
India will stop taking Australia's plastic rubbish a year after China’s drastic restrictions sparked a national recycling crisis. So where will we send our plastic bottles?
- by Jewel Topsfield
Coal
'Peak coal in sight' as new power stations drop and retirements jump
The global pace of new construction of power stations is slowing while retirement of ageing plants is accelerating, placing the world on track for "peak coal" capacity within a couple of years.
- by Peter Hannam
Cyclone Veronica makes landfall in WA
Cyclone Veronica is battering Western Australia's Pilbara Coast, leaving towns in lockdown as they are lashed with rain and wild winds.
NT residents begin clean-up following Cyclone Trevor
As Cyclone Trevor is downgraded, residents in the Northern Territory are assessing the damage to their homes.
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Wildlife
Deadbeat dad replaced by feather duster as zoo rescues orphaned chicks
It's Australia's most important bird with fewer than 1000 left in the wild. So zookeepers were 'over the moon' when their plains-wanderer population doubled this week.
- by Joe Hinchliffe