Environment
Nearly half a million Australian properties are uninsurable
If your plane had a one-in-four chance of falling from the sky, would you still get on the flight?
- by Bianca Hall
Latest
Lightning streaks across the skies of Melbourne
SES reports hundreds of callouts as trees downed, buildings damaged and hail hits Bendigo
Whale rescue from the air
Official drone footage shows the entangled humpback whale swimming around the harbour, dragging buoys attached as part of the NPSW rescue effort. CREDIT: NSW Maritime
As it happened: Whale rescue as young humpback freed from fishing gear in Sydney Harbour
National parks staff have rescued a young humpback whale tangled in fishing tackle in Sydney Harbour this morning.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Disentanglement team leader on how the whale was freed
Luke McSweeney, team leader of the disentanglement team, talks through the operation to free the whale trapped in Sydney Harbour.
Rescue operation for baby whale in Sydney Harbour
Nick O'Malley is on the scene watching the effort to free the baby humpback whale in Sydney Harbour.
Whale leads rescuers on harbour chase, before slice of freedom
The humpback moved erratically and often quickly, lunging across Sydney Harbour’s coves and bays and then hugging the coastline. It was untangled from the fishing line with a few deft cuts.
- by Nick O'Malley and Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Exclusive
Climate crisis
Doomist or realist? Meet the scientist who says the climate collapse has already begun
Jem Bendell was made famous by his paper Deep Adaptation, in which he argued that climate collapse was inevitable. Now he says it has already begun.
- by Nick O'Malley
Humpback whale entangled in fish trap in Sydney Harbour
Rescuers have been working to free the distressed juvenile whale. A GPS tracker has been attached to the animal to help find it at first light and resume the operation.
- by Riley Walter