‘We’ll cop the full brunt’:West Gate Tunnel to pump out toxic fumes near homes
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Roads

‘We’ll cop the full brunt’:West Gate Tunnel to pump out toxic fumes near homes

Campaigners push for filters to be installed on the project’s enormous vents in Melbourne’s inner west as pollution fears grow.

  • bySophie Aubrey andPatrick Hatch

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Banned pesticide among toxic cocktail discovered in state’s west

Banned pesticide among toxic cocktail discovered in state’s west

A government monitoring program has detected traces of many potentially toxic agricultural chemicals on public land.

  • byBen Cubby
Why companies must come clean over products containing ‘forever chemicals’

Why companies must come clean over products containing ‘forever chemicals’

Everybody in Australia is exposed to PFAS. Experts say it’s time we know which products are contaminating our blood and homes.

  • byCarrie Fellner
Cooking oil,poo and drugs:Mystery of grime balls on Sydney beaches solved
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Science

Cooking oil,poo and drugs:Mystery of grime balls on Sydney beaches solved

Testing has revealed thousands of balls washed up on Sydney’s beaches are a “disgusting” mix of cooking oil,soap scum,faeces and drugs,including cannabis and ice.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
I took a Perth kid to the Queensland rainforest. Was I doing something wrong?
Opinion
Animals

I took a Perth kid to the Queensland rainforest. Was I doing something wrong?

We’d looked forward to this spectacular trip so much,and yet at the start I could not quieten the sense of wrongness that had been troubling me for so long.

  • byEmma Young
We protect our kids from smoking,so why do cars get a free ride?
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Opinion

We protect our kids from smoking,so why do cars get a free ride?

More than 3000 Australian schools and childcare centres operate close to major roads. The risks for children are clear.

  • byKate Charlesworth
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The frightening new links between air pollution and our health

The frightening new links between air pollution and our health

Air pollution has been linked to peanut allergies,ADHD and memory problems,with male brains particularly susceptible.

  • byAngus Dalton
Minister’s plan to scrap emissions plans on WA’s biggest polluting projects

Minister’s plan to scrap emissions plans on WA’s biggest polluting projects

The projects with greenhouse gas management plans cover about 310 million tonnes of estimated CO2 emissions from WA industry over the next 25 years.

  • byHamish Hastie
New ‘forever chemical’ tests zero in on contamination source

New ‘forever chemical’ tests zero in on contamination source

Independent tests have linked PFAS contamination in the Blue Mountains to the site of a 1992 petrol tanker crash.

  • byBen Cubby andCarrie Fellner
‘Enormous implications’:Australia’s tap water clean-up could cost billions
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Water

‘Enormous implications’:Australia’s tap water clean-up could cost billions

Authorities have proposed much lower safe limits for cancer-linked “forever chemicals” in drinking water. What does it mean for you?

  • byCarrie Fellner,Ben Cubby andDaniel Lo Surdo
New limits on forever chemicals levels is overdue good news for water supplies

New limits on forever chemicals levels is overdue good news for water supplies

Australia is finally to adopt world’s best-practice permitted levels for cancer-causing forever chemicals in drinking water.

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