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| UpdatedEfforts to mitigate the effects of climate change on sea turtles are being ramped up on the southern Great Barrier Reef coast, as a joint Federal and State Government program expands the use of shade cloth to reduce the temperature for turtle egg incubation.
Topics: conservation, environment, climate-change, environmental-management, environmental-policy, environmental-impact, mining-environmental-issues, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, qld, australia
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| UpdatedThe Kingdom of Morocco is offering to pay the travel expenses of Pacific Island leaders and their delegations who are planning to attend the climate change talks in Marrakech next month.
Topics: environmental-policy, pacific, morocco
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There is a growing international push for a focus on the vulnerable and valuable rangelands of the world.
Topics: pasture, livestock, rainfall, environmentally-sustainable-business, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, bourke-2840, wanaaring-2840, enngonia-2840
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| UpdatedA marine biologist is trying to restore lost reefs in the waters off south-east Queensland, by supplying locals with bags of native oysters.
Topics: rural, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, environment, fishing-aquaculture, bribie-island-4507
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The Murray-Darling Basin Authority has released its long-awaited report on the social and economic effects of the Basin Plan, on northern irrigation communities. The results back up what communities have been saying for years - that the removal of water from farming is having a devastating impact on employment. The Basin Authority is now working through whether it will recommend changes to the Basin Plan, which would require the approval of the Commonwealth Parliament. Basin Authority chief executive Philip Glyde discusses the findings, and the next steps, with ABC Rural's Anna Vidot.
Topics: environmentally-sustainable-business, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, murray-darling-basin, water, water-management, water-supply, federal---state-issues, federal-government, agribusiness, agricultural-policy, irrigation, parliament-house-2600
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The Basin Plan is hitting northern irrigation communities hard, a long-awaited report finds.
Topics: environmentally-sustainable-business, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, murray-darling-basin, water, water-management, water-supply, federal---state-issues, federal-government, agribusiness, agricultural-policy, irrigation, parliament-house-2600
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| UpdatedNewer suburbs established without trees and green corridors experience hotter temperatures, a study finds.
Topics: environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, urban-development-and-planning, community-development, lismore-2480, north-lismore-2480, upper-coomera-4209
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Topics: land-management, land-clearing, environmental-policy, environmental-management, agricultural-policy, agricultural-prices, clermont-4721
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South Australian Labor MP Mark Butler responds to a questioner who claims the state's electricity grid is a disaster because "wind turbines and solar don't work".
Topics: alternative-energy, energy, environmental-policy, storm-event, storm-disaster, sa, australia
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| UpdatedPacific island calls for stronger environmental systems have been heeded, with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, SPREP, launching new guidelines for environmental impact assessment at its annual meeting last week.
Topics: environmental-management, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, tourism, pacific
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government secures $3.6 million from failed resources company Linc Energy to begin rehabilitation efforts on the western Darling Downs.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, environmental-health, health, mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, law-crime-and-justice, chinchilla-4413, qld
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Topics: oceans-and-reefs, research, conservation, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, environmental-health
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Topics: oceans-and-reefs, research, conservation, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, environmental-health
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Topics: oceans-and-reefs, research, conservation, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, environmental-health
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| UpdatedA plan by Tasmania's water corporation to run a sewage pipe through the Peter Murrell Reserve, south of Hobart, angers residents and community leaders.
Topics: environmental-impact, environmental-policy, animals-and-nature, blackmans-bay-7052
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| UpdatedFears for the future of Landcare as the environmental movement marks 30 years.
Topics: sustainable-and-alternative-farming, agribusiness, agricultural-policy, environmental-policy, shepparton-3630, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull uses an address to the United Nations General Assembly to champion Australia's bid for the Human Rights' Council despite criticism from UN officials over its asylum seeker policy.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, immigration, foreign-affairs, environmental-policy, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedThe NT Government says a large flame burning from an exploratory gas well on the Barkly Tableland is standard exploration practice.
Topics: mining-industry, oil-and-gas, environment-education, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, alice-creek-4610, darwin-0800
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Topics: mining-industry, oil-and-gas, environment-education, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, alice-creek-4610, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedWheelie bins will be banned and rubbish will go underground when a state-of-the-art automated waste system is installed on the Sunshine Coast.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, environmental-health, recycling-and-waste-management, local-government, maroochydore-4558, qld
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The NSW Environmental Protection Authority says it is relieved to have finally solved the mystery behind hundreds of pelican deaths on the State's Central Coast.
Topics: environmental-management, environment, environmental-policy, environmental-impact, birds, animal-science, science-and-technology, woy-woy-2256, nsw
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Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, road-transport, ararat-3377, buangor-3375, ballarat-3350
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| UpdatedA sheep farmer considers taking the Victorian Government to court to stop a stretch of highway cutting through their farmland, after a report revealed the highway's approval relied on "flawed" data.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, road-transport, industry, environmental-management, ararat-3377, ballarat-3350
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Canada will impose a carbon price on provinces that do not adequately regulate emissions by themselves, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says.
Topics: environment, foreign-affairs, environmental-management, environmental-policy, world-politics, canada
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Topics: environmental-management, environmental-policy, environmental-health, wetlands, bairnsdale-3875