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Environment
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A 60-year-old man has died after being bitten by a shark while surfing at Casuarina Beach near Kingscliff in the NSW northern rivers region
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Communities and advocates decry ‘backflip’ after years of planning for statewide framework to reduce toxic air
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The judgment against the agency could lead to forestry operations being assessed under national environmental laws for the first time in 20 years
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Report also warns Australia will experience more extreme fire seasons due to climate crisis
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The flowering bedstraw was thought to have died out on the sub-Antarctic island in the 1980s
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Developer Ozy Homes agrees to stop works and allow ecological experts to assess unburnt site
The frontline: inside Australia's climate emergency
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The sea along the Tasmanian east coast is a global heating hotspot.
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Australia is heating faster than the global average, and extreme heat days are on the rise. Doctors say there’s clear evidence that it’s killing people prematurely
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For months, Australians breathed air pollution up to 26 times above levels considered hazardous to human health. The long-term impact could be devastating
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In our second episode of The Frontline, we show what daily life looks like in one of dozens of Australian towns that have run out of drinking water
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In this first episode of The Frontline, a new series that shows how everyday Australians are already living with the climate crisis, we go inside the new fire zone: areas of Australia that used to be too wet to burn
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Australia is known for its fresh food and great wine – but that could change as the weather becomes hotter, drier and more unpredictable. One winemaker is racing to adapt
Opinion
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World news
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Failure to consider dirty air as a factor in higher death toll among ethnic minorities wholly irresponsible, say critics
Global view
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The US stimulus programme looks to have been a success: one that has political as well as economic consequences
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A ban on constructing with timber is one of the more misguided responses to Grenfell
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In pictures
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The pick of the world’s best flora and fauna photos, including hugging sloths and a lost whale
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To mark World Environment Day, WWF has selected some snapshots of UK nature and wildlife - from land and ocean species to breathtaking plant life - in an attempt to raise awareness of the ongoing fight for our world and its vital biodiversity, the threat to which is both an urgent and existential concern.
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A bicycle scheme is shaving hours off long journeys to get milk fresh to market, boosting women’s incomes and benefiting their whole community
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The images provide examples where animals are traded for food, entertainment, traditional medicine and as exotic pets.
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Remembering Wildlife, the groundbreaking charity picture book series, has announced the ten winners of its photography competition to appear in its forthcoming book, Remembering Cheetahs
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The photographs that make up William Arnold’s Suburban Herbarium are very different from the highly coloured botanical photographs we are used to seeing
Video
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Eight houses have been swept into the sea in Norway after a powerful landslide near the town of Alta. The landslide was filmed by a local resident, Jan Egil Bakkedal – one of the houses that was lost belonged to him – who said he ran for his life when he realised what was happening.
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Those who can, should go back to work, Boris Johnson has said. But how will people get to work safely?
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Eight chimneys at Victoria’s defunct, coal-fired Hazelwood power station have been demolished. Built in the 1960s, they operated for more than half a century before the brown coal-fuelled power station was shut down in March 2017
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Australia's national environment laws 'actually allow extinction to happen'