Rain and flooding risks are predicted for large parts of NSW in the coming days, as more than 35,000 people remain out of their homes.

Know your neighbours and their circumstances. Accelerating climate change will soon outstrip the capabilities of the ADF and SES: communities are the only thing you can rely on.

Defence wants to relocate the 100 Australian gannet chicks that are still too young to fly. But experts want the department to delay the plan, saying moving the chicks now would be fatal for them all.

The floodwaters lap at the ground floor of every house in Mawson Place in Pitt Town. Instead of parked cars on their driveways, they have floating canoes, jet skis and tinnies.

Exmouth Gulf is considered a sea snake biodiversity hotspot, but researchers have still been amazed by the discovery from a scientist out for a casual paddle.