Cocaine pollution in rivers and lakes may disrupt behaviour of salmon, study finds
Fish swam further and dispersed more widely after exposure to environmental levels of drug and main metabolite Traces of cocaine that pollute rivers and lakes may accumulate in the brains…
JD Vance to lead US delegation in Pakistan if Iran agrees to talks
US vice-president to travel to Islamabad with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner as deadline for current ceasefire looms Pakistan seeks to raise its global standing in push for Middle East…
‘I hope it doesn’t get him down’: Usain Bolt tells Gout Gout to get ready to lose
‘It’s all about just learning right now,’ says Jamaican sprint great Young Australian will face some of world’s best in busy 2026 Like running fast, growing pains are something sprint…
News live: influencer warns MPs millions of Australians care about gas export tax and they ‘ignore this at their peril’
Greens-led inquiry into gas tax begins after Labor MP Ed Husic says energy companies have been given an ‘obscenely sweet deal’. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email,…
Jewish man among first charged in pro-Palestinian slogan crackdown that reminds some of 1970s Queensland
Stephen Heydt says he spoke in a custom-made T-shirt and was ‘charged with two offences: one for the shirt, one for the chanting’ Follow our Australia news live blog for…
Won’t somebody save these hundreds of turtles condemned to death? | First Dog on the Moon
There is a whole dam full of water right there but the turtles can’t have it Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published Get…
My rookie era: I lived off the land for a week – by day five I was naked, my clothes dangling over the campfire
In the summer of 1971, I left behind my comfortable family home with a tent, rations and a Women’s Weekly cutting of Princess Caroline of Monaco Get our weekend culture…
One Japanese town sorts waste into 40 different categories. How does Australia’s recycling compare?
Kerbside wheelie bins have been used in Australia since the 1980s but the recycling rate is stuck at 44%. Will another recycling bin make a difference? Sign up for climate…
A homeless man died in public in Sydney. How did his death go unnoticed? – podcast
The strange and lonely death of Bikram Lama exposes a glaring gap in homelessness services. Reged Ahmad speaks with Guardian Australia’s chief investigations correspondent, Christopher Knaus, about which hopes and…
The gas tax ripoff. Japan collects more on our gas than we do
The Japanese Government makes more revenue taxing the import of Australian gas than the Australian Government does from those exporting it. What’s the scam? The scam is how our gas…