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| UpdatedFarmers, residents, and conservationists on Queensland's Sunshine Coast say they are receiving contradictory information about plans for a multimillion-dollar land sale.
Topics: environmental-impact, environment, environmental-management, environmental-policy, sugar, agricultural-crops, rural, wetlands, conservation, yandina-4561, maroochydore-4558
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| UpdatedBushfires, floods and heatwaves are the new standard in Australia, leading climate scientists say, but they are growing fatigued explaining it to people who cannot accept it or have a vested interest that means they do not want to.
Topics: climate-change, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, weather, australia, nsw, wa, qld, tas
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| UpdatedA deal over sewage disposal was the key to protecting a significant wetland on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
Topics: environmental-impact, environment, environmental-management, environmental-policy, birds, human-interest, wetlands, government-and-politics, community-and-society, yandina-4561
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Former UK chief scientist Sir John Beddington
Topics: agricultural-policy, environmental-policy, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedMassive cuts to Queensland's public service and government programs under the LNP administration of Campbell Newman were given a "pain" ranking, confidential documents reveal.
Topics: federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, liberal-national-party-queensland, budget, environmental-policy, qld
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| UpdatedA diverse alliance of industry, community and environmental groups is calling for a new bipartisan approach to energy policy.
Topics: environment, government-and-politics, federal-government, environmental-policy, federal-parliament, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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Teenage turtles like Cliff are lucky to be rescued, because many others like him are dying after eating hidden plastic pollution in Sydney Harbour and the Hawkesbury River.
Topics: environmental-impact, environmental-policy, animals, animal-welfare, plastics-and-rubber, retail, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe developer of a controversial oil pipeline crossing several US states resumes construction of the long-delayed project, a month after President Donald Trump ordered it to be continued.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, environmental-impact, environment, environmental-policy, community-and-society, indigenous-other-peoples, donald-trump, united-states
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Topics: environmental-management, environmental-policy, mining-environmental-issues, kalgoorlie-6430, norseman-6443, southern-cross-6426
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Topics: environmental-management, environmental-policy, mining-environmental-issues, kalgoorlie-6430, norseman-6443, southern-cross-6426
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Topics: environmental-management, environmental-policy, mining-environmental-issues, kalgoorlie-6430, norseman-6443, southern-cross-6426
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Topics: environmental-management, environmental-policy, mining-environmental-issues, kalgoorlie-6430, norseman-6443, southern-cross-6426
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| UpdatedThe US Army says it will allow the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline to cross under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota, clearing the way for completion of the disputed four-state project.
Topics: environmental-policy, environment, water-pollution, oil-and-gas, united-states
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Topics: aboriginal, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, kalgoorlie-6430
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Topics: aboriginal, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, kalgoorlie-6430
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| UpdatedPower companies are accused of "postcode discrimination" after one provider struck a special deal with inner-city suburbs in Sydney to reduce a controversial tree lopping program.
Topics: local-government, government-and-politics, environmental-policy, environment, sydney-2000, marrickville-2204, nsw, australia
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Topics: rural, medical-research, australia-day, environmental-policy, access-to-education, brookstead-4364, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedEuropean settlement has altered Australia's environment in ways we're only now beginning to understand, and nowhere is that more clear than in WA's South West.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, environmental-management, climate-change, forestry, rainfall, drought, bunbury-6230
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| UpdatedPresident-elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the US Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt expresses doubt about the science behind global climate change to his Senate confirmation hearing.
Topics: us-elections, government-and-politics, world-politics, environmental-policy, united-states
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The Labor Party in Tasmania is still considering its position on the Government's plan to open up more areas to logging, Upper House MP Craig Farrell says.
Topics: forestry, forests, states-and-territories, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, port-arthur-7182
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The Victorian Environment Protection Authority will receive a $45 million boost to its powers and independence, in the first major overhaul to the watchdog since it was established 45 years ago.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, environmental-health, government-and-politics, state-parliament, morwell-3840, vic
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Sea turtles have a remarkable ability to find their way home, and new research from James Cook University has partly revealed their secret.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, environment-education, environmental-health, science-and-technology, research, research-organisations, townsville-4810, james-cook-university-townsville-4811, gladstone-4680, qld
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| UpdatedVictoria's Environment Minister is dismissing calls to waive regulatory fees for operators of the southern hemisphere's biggest used tyre yard in Stawell.
Topics: environmental-health, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, state-parliament, states-and-territories, regional, stawell-3380
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| UpdatedEven those living on sewers in Cambodia's capital are not safe from eviction, with lakes being filled in for a billion-dollar development and little hope of compensation for the city's poorest.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, cambodia
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Officials in Beijing create a new environmental police squad in the latest effort to fight China's persistent problems with heavy smog.
Topics: air-pollution, environmental-health, environmental-policy, china