2025 • Sep 18
Whale and her calf entangled in shark net off Queensland coast
‘Heartbreaking’ drone footage has captured the moment a mother and calf became trapped. Four humpbacks have been snared in recent days
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2025 • Aug 13
Labor to use black summer-era measure to fast
Murray Watt and Sussan Ley survey devastation in Adelaide as scientists call for urgent funding for affected species
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2025 • Aug 11
WA’s ‘longest and most intense’ marine heatwave killed coral across 1,500km stretch
Scientists shocked by bleaching event that hit reefs from the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo to the remote Ashmore ReefGet our
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2025 • Aug 05
Great Barrier Reef suffers biggest annual drop in live coral since 1980s after devastating coral bleaching
Researchers warn reef may reach tipping point where coral cannot recover fast enough between major catastrophic eventsGet our
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2025 • Aug 05
Scientists identify bacterium behind devastating wasting disease in starfish
After 90% loss of global sunflower sea star population in 10 years, researchers hope decline can now be tackledA decade after the onset of a sea star wasting disease (SSWD) epidemic consider...
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2025 • Jul 31
After nearly 100 years, adult winter-run Chinook salmon seen in California river
State’s fish and wildlife department posted a video showing an adult female guarding a nest of eggsAdult winter-run Chinook salmon have been spotted in northern California’s McCloud River fo...
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2025 • Jul 31
Fears for South Australia’s annual cuttlefish gathering amid deadly algal bloom
Breeding event known as Cuttlefest takes place in waters off Point Lowly but this year scientists warn the effect of toxic algae could be ‘catastrophic’
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2025 • Jul 30
Experts baffled as rarely seen beaked whales involved in series of strandings
Incidents across northern Europe on 26 and 27 July have left scientists trying to understand why so many of the deep-diving whales have appearedA series of strandings of one of the world’s d...
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