Environment

• Fishing for votes: WA Liberals make pitch to recreational fishing community (photos)

  By Nikki Roberts

  Posted February 18, 2017 16:36:29 | Updated February 18, 2017 18:14:07

  The Barnett Government makes a pitch to the third of the state who fish, offering to create artificial reefs and invest more money boosting stocks if it wins re-election.

  Topics: fish, elections, government-and-politics, rural, fishing-aquaculture, environment, wa

• Protest forms at Glenside Hospital over plans to fell trees

  By Loukas Founten

  Posted February 18, 2017 16:11:51

  About 100 people protest outside Glenside Hospital against plans to remove 83 trees as part of a new housing development in Adelaide's inner-south-east.

  Topics: environment, urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, glenside-5065, adelaide-5000, sa

• Off-grid switch gives SA resident peace of mind

  By Ruby Jones

  Posted February 18, 2017 14:49:41 | Updated February 18, 2017 15:18:52

  Adelaide Hills resident Keith Bladon is working toward taking his property off the electricity grid and is keen to frame his final power bill.

  Topics: alternative-energy, solar-energy, environment, sa, adelaide-5000

• How Bob Brown and Tasmania inspired a concerto

  RN

  By Patrick Carey for The Music Show

  Posted February 18, 2017 10:49:03

  Bob Brown recently helped inspire the creation of a brand new oboe concerto, premiering at the Sydney Opera House next week.

  Topics: brown-bob, classical, music, arts-and-entertainment, environment, cygnet-7112, tas, australia

• Trump threatens to punish US companies for moving jobs overseas

  Posted February 18, 2017 10:08:20 | Updated February 18, 2017 12:32:52

  President Donald Trump promises to boost US manufacturing and punish companies for moving jobs overseas, during a visit to a South Carolina Boeing factory to celebrate the unveiling of the company's latest Dreamliner jet.

  Topics: business-economics-and-finance, industry, environmental-policy, environment, air-transport, us-elections, united-states

• So, do you want the good news or the bad news?

  Tim Leslie, Catherine Hanrahan, Ben Spraggon and Colin Gourlay

  Posted February 18, 2017 07:36:21 | Updated February 18, 2017 13:55:30

  With the year getting off to a wild start, we asked a range of experts what they're most excited about for the rest of 2017— and what they're most worried about.

  Topics: government-and-politics, environment, science-and-technology, australia

• The Drum Friday February 17 Video

  Video
  The Drum

  27min 59sec

  Posted February 17, 2017 18:46:49

  Host: Ellen Fanning
  Panel: Nick Cater, Georgina Dent & Tory Shepherd
  Interview with: Steve Hambleton
  The panel discusses the Australian Medical Association's latest public hospital report card & Labor’s backtrack on its renewable energy target.

  Topics: government-and-politics, health, environment, australia

• Investigation into contamination near Linc Energy plant widens

  By the National Reporting Team's Mark Willacy

  Posted February 17, 2017 13:39:25 | Updated February 17, 2017 13:58:21

  The Queensland Government declares an expanded "investigation zone" after the discovery of flammable levels of hydrogen in soil on the western Darling Downs.

  Topics: oil-and-gas, electricity-energy-and-utilities, energy, environment, states-and-territories, hopeland-4413, chinchilla-4413, qld

• Bird banding and one man's 30-year duty tracking diversity

  ABC Radio Sydney

  By Amanda Hoh

  Posted February 17, 2017 13:10:29 | Updated February 17, 2017 15:07:12

  Alan Leishman has spent 30 years catching and recording birds in the Australian Botanic Garden, and has not only honed his talent for mimicking their chirps, but has witnessed the effects of climate change and industrial development.

  Topics: animal-science, birds, environment, environmental-impact, lifestyle-and-leisure, people, human-interest, sydney-2000

• John Howard's vision for the Murray-Darling hangs in the balance Analysis

  RN

  By Jo Chandler for Background Briefing

  Posted February 17, 2017 10:39:14 | Updated February 17, 2017 16:37:42

  With political heat flaring the length of the Murray-Darling, there are fears the future of the fragile water sharing deal hangs in the balance.

  Topics: rivers, environment, water-management, water-supply, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, joyce-barnaby, turnbull-malcolm, howard-john-winston, murray-darling-basin, australia, sa, qld, vic, nsw

• The Drum Wednesday February 15 Video

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  The Drum

  28min 1sec

  Posted February 15, 2017 18:47:54

  Host: Ellen Fanning
  Panel: Michael Pascoe, Dee Madigan, Ming Long and Jim Molan
  The panel discusses the Government’s threat to increase taxes if the omnibus bill doesn’t pass, Adani coal mine protest plans and Australia’s alliance with the US.

  Topics: government-and-politics, business-economics-and-finance, unrest-conflict-and-war, environment, australia, singapore

• New strain of calicivirus to be released in SA

  By Leah MacLennan

  Posted February 15, 2017 17:50:33

  Rabbit owners are being urged to make sure their pet is vaccinated, as the South Australian Government prepares to release a new strain of the calicivirus.

  Topics: pests, environment, rural, pest-management, science-and-technology, sa

• Yandina Creek image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 15, 2017 12:52:21

  Topics: wetlands, environment, sugar, agricultural-crops, rural, alberton-4207

• Yandina Creek Wetlands seen in the distance beyond an adjacent cane field image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 15, 2017 12:52:21

  Topics: wetlands, environment, sugar, agricultural-crops, rural, alberton-4207

• Sale of Sunshine Coast wetlands for development leads to confusion

  ABC Sunshine Coast

  By Marty McCarthy, Annie Gaffney and Robert Blackmore

  Posted February 15, 2017 12:52:21 | Updated February 15, 2017 16:17:56

  Farmers, 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

• Reg Sprigg honoured with SA's first fossil emblem

  By Nicola Gage

  Posted February 15, 2017 10:02:32

  The man who first documented Ediacara fossils, the late Dr Reg Sprigg, is again being recognised, with South Australia's first state fossil emblem named after him.

  Topics: fossils, science-and-technology, palaeontology, environment, parachilna-5730, sa

• Turtles nesting on 'Galapagos of Australia' receive helping hand

  By Kristy Sexton-McGrath and Stephanie Smail

  Posted February 15, 2017 06:50:37 | Updated February 15, 2017 14:15:37

  While endangered green turtle hatchlings have more than doubled on Queensland's remote Raine Island, scientists are still working to help the species in its battle against rising sea levels and overcrowding.

  Topics: human-interest, animals, environment, conservation, animal-science, science-and-technology, cairns-4870, qld, australia

• Labor warned to tread carefully on wave power plan

  Posted February 14, 2017 14:26:31 | Updated February 14, 2017 14:47:14

  Energy experts say the West Australian Labor party must undertake a detailed feasibility study before backing a wave power farm in the Great Southern.

  Topics: alternative-energy, tidal-energy, environment, electricity-energy-and-utilities, albany-6330, wa

• Discovery of ant-eating spider with 'lock and key' genitals

  ABC Radio Brisbane

  By Jessica Hinchliffe

  Posted February 14, 2017 12:34:17 | Updated February 14, 2017 12:50:54

  A Queensland scientist finds a new species of ant-eating spider and names it after a chance meeting with a new friend on Gumtree.

  Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, animal-science, animals, environment, human-interest, brisbane-4000, lord-howe-island-2898

• Sewage deal helps secure the preservation of 'significant' wetlands

  ABC Sunshine Coast

  By Marty McCarthy, Annie Gaffney, Robert Blackmore

  Posted February 14, 2017 12:29:17 | Updated February 14, 2017 14:55:45

  A 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

• Richard Sievers image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 14, 2017 10:36:18

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, sculpture, history, environment, albury-2640

• Wagirra crew to increase use of Aboriginal language on sculpture walk

  ABC Goulburn Murray

  By Allison Jess

  Posted February 14, 2017 10:36:18 | Updated February 14, 2017 10:42:55

  Albury's Wagirra Trail project team is keen to increase the amount of Aboriginal language they use on the Yindyamarra Sculpture Walk.

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, history, community-and-society, travel-and-tourism, local-government, lifestyle-and-leisure, sculpture, environment, albury-2640

• Composite of solar panels and wind turbine image

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  ABC News

  Posted February 14, 2017 10:00:27

  Topics: wind-energy, solar-energy, energy, alternative-energy, environment, australia

• Solar batteries 'exploding' in popularity with uptake tipped to triple: audit

  By consumer affairs reporter Amy Bainbridge and the National Reporting Team's Rebecca Armitage

  Posted February 14, 2017 06:07:33 | Updated February 14, 2017 06:09:40

  The first national audit of batteries that store solar power shows almost 7,000 were installed in Australian homes last year — and that's predicted to triple this year.

  Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, industry, business-economics-and-finance, alternative-energy, environment, energy, science-and-technology, australia

• The Drum Monday February 13 Video

  Video
  The Drum

  28min 1sec

  Posted February 13, 2017 18:43:15

  Host: John Barron
  Panel: Maha Abdo, Caroline Overington and David Hetherington
  Interview with: Iain MacGill
  The panel discusses the ongoing Australian energy debate, the Liberal Party's deal with One Nation in WA & the increase in female finalists in Tropfest.

  Topics: arts-and-entertainment, government-and-politics, environment, australia

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