A controversial Harry Potter themed lightscape experience will be relocated, following a decision by a council to re-evaluate its sensitive location. Organisers faced global backlash and threats of a boycott for planning the Forbidden Forest Experience inside a wildlife sanctuary at the Briars on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria. FollowingContinue Reading
A spike in house fires this winter has sparked calls for NSW residents to check their smoke alarms. There were 1063 fires at NSW homes this winter, an increase of 12 per cent on the year before, according to Fire and Rescue NSW data. “It’s the largest number of winterContinue Reading
If you thought you had been seeing and hearing a lot more about Antarctica this year than ever before, you are not alone. Tourism to the southernmost continent is rapidly rising – and so are fears of “overtourism”. A record number of people from across the world visited in theContinue Reading
Monday was the world’s hottest day on record, exceeding an average of 17 degrees Celsius for the first time, according to initial measurements taken on Tuesday by US meteorologists. The average daily air temperature on the planet’s surface on July 3 was logged at 17.01C by an organisation attached toContinue Reading
Darwin. Broome. Port Hedland. These significant Australian economic centres risk being uninhabitable within 70 years, a new report warns. Government inaction and corporate disinformation have the world on track for an average temperature increase of 2.7C by 2100, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in March. Now aContinue Reading