The Bureau of Meteorology said winds up to 75 kilometres per hour were already lashing island communities with the system expected to reach the mainland shortly after 2am on Saturday.
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Topic:Cyclones
The egg shortage is considered a possible motive after chickens were plucked from a flock of birds at a Hobart school.
Blue Mountains residents are pressing ahead with legal action against the NSW government for refusing to test people who were drinking water contaminated with "forever chemicals."
The NSW government is set to remove shark nets at beaches from Newcastle to Wollongong a month early this year amid growing concerns from marine advocates and experts.
Selling crocodile eggs is an important business for remote Indigenous rangers who brave Top End swamps to collect them for farms. But this harvest has yielded fewer viable embryos than usual.
The collections include 99 per cent of Australia's native birds as well as exotic bird species, skeletons, mammals, reptiles stored in ethanol, eggs and frozen tissue.
The Russian president says he worries NATO countries could use the Arctic as a "springboard for future conflicts".
A central Queensland facility stockpiling solar panels says its materials recovery site will not be operational until 2026. It comes as experts call for greater regulation to support the emerging sector.
If you've travelled along Tasmania's coastline, you may have spotted collections of black circular pens floating just offshore and thought 'what are those?' They're salmon farms — and there is a lot of them.
Topic:Explainer
Soil moisture has declined more than 2,600 gigatonnes since 2000, making a greater contribution to sea level rise than Greenland's melting ice sheets.
New environment laws rushed through parliament have ended almost 18 months of uncertainty for west coast Tasmanian salmon workers. Environmental groups say "all possible avenues" are being explored to challenge the laws.
The Northern Territory's renewables minister says the government is scrapping a target of 50 per cent renewable energy by 2030, labelling it an "unrealistic and failed policy".
The sight of thousands of salmon off WA's Cheynes Beach has sparked excitement for another bumper fishing season.
Topic:Feel Good
Queensland's Land Court has recommended a mine lease extension be rejected unless the mine's operator can prove it will mitigate climate emissions.
The insect said to threaten the food security of 600 million people globally may have met its match in the form of several native Australian fungi and bacteria.
Forty-two dogs were injured and one euthanased at the venue between July and September 2024. Club officials, trainers, and owners are calling for the "unsuitable" two-turn grass track to be converted to sand.
A prominent environmental lawyer warns that Peter Dutton's pledge to approve a major WA gas project within 30 days of taking office will expose the project to likely legal challenges.
Tasmania's aquaculture industry has well and truly rocketed to prominence, with even Hollywood actors weighing in. But how did we get here, where the prime minister is ramming through legislation to protect jobs on Tasmania's west coast on the eve of an election?
About 10,000 tyres have been found at an illegal dump at Lockwood South, near Bendigo, sparking a statewide operation by the EPA.
A dead fish used as a prop in the Senate, a Hollywood superstar's intervention and Labor being shouted at as a "pack of mongrels" all have featured on the day a new law to protect salmon farm jobs in Tasmania is passed.
Traditional owners and a scientist fear there have been more fracking fluid spills by gas companies exploring the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin.
Multiple wildfires are raging across South Korea's south-eastern region, with thousands of firefighters aided by the military deployed in a bid to contain one of the country's worst forest fires in decades.
Woodside says a decision to further delay approval for its major gas project in WA's north west until after the federal election is "extremely disappointing".
Sharks were thought to be silent, but scientists have recorded a New Zealand species making a clicking noise.
Scientists call for the federal government to invest more in preventing the disease from spreading to Australia's 5ドル billion sheep meat industry.