4+ hour, 20+ min ago  (384+ words) A humpback whale stranded for days off Germany's Baltic coast has freed itself after getting stuck on another sandbank. Claus Tantzen, a spokesman for the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Ministry of the Environment, said the whale was being followed by the water…...

12+ hour, 50+ min ago  (553+ words) After lashing coastal communities with 250km/h winds and dumping a year's worth of rain in a day, ex-Tropical Cyclone Narelle has again headed offshore. Weakening to a subtropical low as it cut inland across Western Australia's Gascoyne region, Narelle moved…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (78+ words) Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle is intensifying rapidly offshore, bringing destructive winds and heavy rainfall to Western Australia. As it tracks southwest, threatening the Pilbara and Gascoyne regions with destructive gusts up to 200 km/h and significant coastal impacts. This Category…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (19+ words) Floodwaters swamp Katherine as river nears major level again'Illawarra Mercury Floodwaters swamp Katherine as river nears major level again...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (13+ words) Tropical Cyclone Narelle severe weather update'Illawarra Mercury Tropical Cyclone Narelle severe weather update...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago  (21+ words) Far North QLD assesses damage from Ex-Tropical Cyclone Narelle'Illawarra Mercury Far North QLD assesses damage from Ex-Tropical Cyclone Narelle...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago  (585+ words) Some of Wollongong's most expensive suburbs are the most at risk from erosion, slope instability and rising sea levels, a new study shows. A major new report, Wollongong City Council's coastal hazard risk assessment, shows significant areas of the city's…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago  (1006+ words) Carrying some 14 trillion litres of water a year, the Murray River eventually empties into the Southern Ocean south of Adelaide via a vast network of estuaries and lagoons. Two-and-a-half thousand kilometres away, trickling rivulets of melted snow are modest enough…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (694+ words) The "cannonball concretion" stone formations which dot the rock shelf at Sandon Point in Bulli took only 1000 years to set. Seems slow, perhaps, but given they formed about 254 million years ago, a single millennium makes these concretions look relatively quick-set....

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (195+ words) One of the biggest cyclones in recent times is barrelling toward Australia's coast as a maximum category five system. The monster storm was upgraded for the second time on Thursday morning, producing wind gusts up to 285km/h as locals brace…...