Pollution
After hinting at shamans, Bali turns to science to tackle landfill fire
Water-bombing helicopters and police water cannons have been deployed in a futile bid to put out a huge tip fire that has burned for the past week.
- by Chris Barrett and Amilia Rosa
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Sydney park cleans up with prestigious award
Meet the Australian landscape architects moving away from “making beautiful things and scenery to being about change”.
- by Julie Power
Australia moves to ban three ‘forever chemicals’ – but family of US teen say more needs to be done
Before she died, Amara Strande defeated a Wall Street goliath to ban forever chemicals. In Australia, three of these chemicals will soon be banned – but Strande’s family want the entire class of compounds to be outlawed.
- by Carrie Fellner
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Need to widen ban on forever chemicals is urgent
Like 20 other students at her high school in middle America, Amara Strande battled liver cancer. She died last April aged 20, but her last crusade saw her home state of Minnesota ban forever chemicals in consumer products. Australia take note.
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The factory that contaminated the world with a forever chemical
Most Australians have paid the price after a US manufacturer deliberately covered up the hazardous effects of one of its widely used compounds, legal documents show.
- by Carrie Fellner
‘We cop it’: Residents filthy over planned soil-washing plant
A dust-up is brewing over a proposal to build a plant to clean contaminated soil in Melbourne’s west.
- by Cara Waters
Sydney’s air quality plummets as hazard reduction haze lingers
Sydney ranked as the third most polluted city in the world due to the remnant smoke on Thursday morning.
- by Angus Dalton
Does bushfire smoke cause sinus issues?
Even brief exposure to bushfire smoke can irritate your nose, but how concerned should you really be?
- by Dani Blum
Sydney Marathon organisers confident haze will clear as NRLW clash shifted
The smoky haze from hazard burns around Sydney is expected to clear in time for the Sydney Marathon on Sunday, but unseasonably hot weather may still prove challenging.
- by Iain Payten
Climate activists let down this Toorak driver’s tyre. He sees their point
The Tyre Extinguisher activist group say they will let down more tyres across Melbourne soon, having first chosen Toorak because of its reputation for big cars.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola
Jakarta to spray water mist from high-rises as city chokes on air pollution
President Joko Widodo – said to be battling his own cough exacerbated by the conditions – wants urgent intervention.
- by Lucy Cormack and Karuni Rompies