Most cities are lucky to have even one great beach. Sydney? We have more than 100. But we’ve got more than just quantity going for us: it’s the sheer diversity of Sydney’s beaches that make us one of ...

A number of areas across the Bayside Council have been impacted, including a beach on Kyeemagh Avenue in Mascot at a popular plane-spotting lookout. Locals across multiple Sydney suburbs have been ...

An analysis of balls that washed up on Sydney beaches earlier this month found they were made of soap scum and cosmetics. Other small items, including pharmaceuticals and traces of animal faecal ...

The disturbing findings have in part been blamed on the state’s sewage systems, which overflow when they reach capacity and “drain to waterways, usually via the stormwater system,” the NSW State of ...

In mid-January, nine beaches in Sydney, Australia were closed after a bunch of gross little mysterious balls washed up along the coastline. At the time, the composition of the forbidden beach ...

The mysterious balls that forced the closure of several beaches in Sydney last week were found to contain saturated fatty acids, E. coli and faecal bacteria, authorities say. Sydney's Northern ...

More than 150 false killer whales have been stranded on an isolated beach in the Australian state of Tasmania, with rescue crews trying to save the majority of the large dolphins that survived the ...

our beaches have been no-go zones. Daylight bathing was first proscribed in 1833 around Sydney Cove and spread throughout the harbour until 1902, when a local went for a midday swim and Manly ...

Nine swimming spots on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, including at Dee Why, Manly, and North Narrabeen, were closed earlier this month due to the debris. University of NSW chemistry professor Jon ...

Testing has revealed some of the contents in the mysterious grey balls of pollution that closed nine popular Sydney beaches, as more balls wash up at a Harbourside beach. Premliminary testing ...

One part of Sydney has several suburbs with near-perfect scores. Less than an hour away, it was a different story.

Nine beaches in Sydney were closed by authorities on 14 January after white-grey, ball-shaped debris washed up along the shore. The Northern Beaches Council, which described the debris as marble ...