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A Coles truck is stuck in a sink hole that has formed outside St Mary’s Cathedral in the Sydney CBD.

Sinkhole in Sydney CBD forces school to close

At least two trucks came to the rescue of a Coles delivery vehicle which crashed into the hole.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo

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Lake Eyre/Kati Thanda flooding as seen from the air in October.

Fires and floods, fires and floods: Australia’s summer of extremes

Australia’s summer has been marked by repeated cycles of bushfires followed by floods, as Lake Eyre is set to be flooded for the second time in two years.

  • Bianca Hall
Decomposing sea sponges at the Ardrossan Big Jetty are among the casualties of the algal bloom off South Australia’s coast.

‘The water was completely dead’: Inside the grim race with a microscopic enemy

‘Seen the worst I can see’: On this remote stretch of beach, a new ground zero has emerged.

  • Bianca Hall
The water at Burleigh Heads can appear to be crystal blue. But looks can be deceiving.

The cleanest and dirtiest beaches in south-east Queensland revealed

Where have you been swimming this summer? We crunch the numbers on water quality at beaches and swimming spots from Rainbow Bay to Noosa Heads.

  • Marissa Calligeros and Craig Butt
Domenic Svejkar from KBR Consultancy says Sydney should unearth its lost waterways to cool the environment.

The pitch to bring Sydney’s hidden waterways to the surface

Colonial maps show a city with vast waterways now lost beneath roads and buildings, but “daylighting” hidden waterways in the suburbs could help cool Sydney down as the climate changes.

  • Aidan Elwig Pollock
The Ile d’Yeu ship laying undersea cable off the coast near Maroubra. CREDIT: WOLTER PEETERS
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Undersea cable ship off Sydney

The Ile d’Yeu ship laying undersea cable off the coast near Maroubra. CREDIT: WOLTER PEETERS

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Weather. Mikey and Patch May check out the wild surf conditions from the Cronulla rock pool.

Sydney’s beaches closed, hundreds call for assistance as storm lashes coast

Slow-moving, dangerous thunderstorms are causing flash flooding in Sydney and the Central Coast.

  • Julie Power and Nigel Gladstone
Flooding at Wye River on Thursday.

Climate whiplash: We can no longer pretend this isn’t a crisis

Australia has been riven by fires and floods this summer. What will it take to make policymakers treat this as the crisis it is?

  • Bianca Hall
Victoria’s desalination plant

$840m desal expansion tipped as Melbourne faces AI water drain

Rainfall shortages and thirsty data centres have the government looking for long-term answers.

  • Daniella White and Kieran Rooney
Melbourne Water has cut the volume of groundwater pumped through the lakes annually from 730 megalitres to 20 megalitres.

These lakes were once so clean you could swim in them. Now they are fetid – and residents are being told to pay to fix them

Once swimmable, the Quiet Lakes are a “seething mass of blue-green algae” due to 30 years of Melbourne Water failures say residents who live by the toxic water.

  • Adam Carey