9 d. ago Mystery as 'weird' mass of sea foam coats pristine Australian beaches killing off fish and leaving hundreds of surfers with breathing problems

Health authorities closed Waitipinga and neighbouring Parsons Beach on Monday, and say that the foam could be due to a microalgal bloom stemming from unusual weather conditions.

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1 week ago More than 100 surfers fall ill as mysterious sea foam appears on beach

Authorities close Waitpinga and Parsons beaches citing possible link between foam and microalgal bloom

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1 week ago Strange foam and dead fish wash onto 2 Australian beaches as surfers fall sick

An Australian state has closed two beaches after surfers reported feeling unwell while dead fish and unusual foam washed ashore

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1 week ago Mysterious sea foam on South Australian beaches reportedly leaves more than 100 surfers ill

Leafy seadragons, fish, and octopuses among creatures to have washed up dead on both Waitpinga beach and Parsons beach Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA mysterious foam on a South Australian beach is being blamed for more than 100 surfers becoming ill, and for the deaths of leafy seadragons, fish, and octopuses.Health authorities have closed Waitpinga and Parsons Beach, about 80km south of Adelaide.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Shark attack horror as drone footage captures missing surfer being killed at Australian beach

Horrified bystanders reported hearing screams shortly before Steven Jeffrey Payne, 37, from Melbourne, disappeared - after being dragged away by a shark in a horrifying attack

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2 w. ago 8.3 million UK workers to have ‘unliveable’ sick pay despite changes, say campaigners

Exclusive: Millions of workers in the UK get just a third of minimum wage if they fall sick, putting financial strain on those with cancer struggling to pay bills

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3 w. ago More than a million salmon dumped after ‘unprecedented’ mass mortality at Tasmanian fish farms

Bob Brown Foundation’s drone footage appears to show farm workers pumping live salmon into a tub carrying dead fish and then sealing itGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAt least 1 million salmon died at Tasmanian fish farms and were dumped at landfill sites and rendering plants in February in what authorities and the industry described as an “unprecedented” mass death triggered by a bacterium outbreak.The revelation that waste facilities in Tasmania’s south received more than 5,500 tonnes of dead salmon last month – equivalent to about 1.07 million full-grown Atlantic salmon, or 8% of total annual production in the state – followed weeks of reports of fatty chunks of fish washing up on beaches in the Huon Valley and on Bruny Island.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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