Stink over funding threatens pollution tests at Sydney beaches

Stink over funding threatens pollution tests at Sydney beaches

Swimmers may no longer be able to find out whether a swim site has faecal contamination because of a funding row between local councils and the NSW government.

  • byAndrew Taylor

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Cocaine,porn,plastic bottles:What’s left behind on Sydney’s beaches

Cocaine,porn,plastic bottles:What’s left behind on Sydney’s beaches

Roland Davies spent his life savings trying to clean up Sydney’s beaches with free coffees and a fire truck called Trish.

  • byAndrew Taylor
Australian drinking water now allows a carcinogen at 140 times the US rate
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Australian drinking water now allows a carcinogen at 140 times the US rate

Twenty-year-old Amara Strande’s deathbed crusade pushed the US to slash the levels of cancer-linked forever chemicals considered safe in drinking water.

  • byCarrie Fellner
‘Sheen’ in water:Ageing oil pipeline off Gippsland coast shut off as leak probed
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‘Sheen’ in water:Ageing oil pipeline off Gippsland coast shut off as leak probed

A pipeline linking two oil platforms is being investigated as the source of a suspected hydrocarbon spill in Bass Strait.

  • byBianca Hall
Why Carrie Fellner spent nearly a decade chasing the story of ‘forever chemicals’

Why Carrie Fellner spent nearly a decade chasing the story of ‘forever chemicals’

From Williamtown,to Minnesota in the US and Wreck Bay on the NSW South Coast,Fellner has tracked the toxic trail of destruction left by a corporate giant.

On-screen chemistry helps explain how the chemistry went wrong

On-screen chemistry helps explain how the chemistry went wrong

An Australian documentary tracking the battle to hold Wall Street giant 3M Company to account for decades of toxic contamination around the planet has some extra star power to help get the message across.

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Mark Ruffalo on the ‘evil’ company that poisoned every person on the planet – then kept it secret

Mark Ruffalo on the ‘evil’ company that poisoned every person on the planet – then kept it secret

The Hollywood actor will feature in a new Stan documentary exposing how 3M’s “forever chemicals” have sparked a worldwide contamination catastrophe.

  • byMichael Idato
Asbestos found in mulch at Melbourne park

Asbestos found in mulch at Melbourne park

A council in Melbourne’s west closed a playground after a resident found pieces of asbestos-containing material in mulch,along with other industrial waste.

  • byRachael Dexter andAlex Crowe
This factory contaminated the whole world. And you helped pay for it

This factory contaminated the whole world. And you helped pay for it

Most Australians can expect to find forever chemicals – also known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFAS) – in their blood.

  • byCarrie Fellner
Against the grain:Peninsula replaces rakes with people to clean beaches

Against the grain:Peninsula replaces rakes with people to clean beaches

Mornington Peninsula beaches will be cleaned by hand from July after testing found mechanical rakes left more than half the rubbish behind.

  • byAdam Carey
Family forced to sell two homes to pay for massive tyre pile clean-up

Family forced to sell two homes to pay for massive tyre pile clean-up

A disability pensioner secretly stockpiled more than 100,000 old tyres on a farm near Mildura,leaving a deceased woman’s family with a clean-up bill of $900,000.

  • byAdam Carey