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| UpdatedThere are fears Tasmania's giant kelp forests are almost extinct, as Senate inquiry into the impact of climate change on sea life begins.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, government-and-politics, climate-change, eaglehawk-neck-7179, tas, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedExploration could be about to take off with the Australian Antarctic Division investigating a new year-round runway site on the icy continent.
Topics: science-and-technology, earth-sciences, research, engineering, environment, antarctica, australia
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| UpdatedWA's Kimberley is in the midst of one of its biggest wet seasons on record, causing headaches for emergency services, remote communities and cattle stations cut off by flooding, but it is not all bad news for the region.
Topics: weather, rainfall, environment, kununurra-6743
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| UpdatedThe coal industry's multi-million-dollar advertising and lobbying campaign in the run-up to the last federal election was bankrolled by money deducted from state mining royalty payments and meant to fund research into "clean coal".
Topics: coal, environment, activism-and-lobbying, federal---state-issues, australia, qld, nsw
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| UpdatedThere are fears the price of prawns is about to go "through the roof" following a decision by the Federal Government to recall all imported raw prawns.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, rural, food-processing, pest-management, food-and-cooking, pests, environment, federal-government, brisbane-4000, canberra-2600, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe ABC obtains a raft of Cabinet briefing documents prepared for the Newman government's razor gang showing it axed Ecofund despite being told it was a "profitable, cash flow positive and standalone entity".
Topics: climate-change, environment, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, qld, australia
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| UpdatedThe Government is considering lifting a ban on allowing the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to invest in carbon capture and storage, as well as low-emission coal-fired plants, but Labor says there will not be any support from the market.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, environmental-policy, environment, energy, climate-change
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| UpdatedThe 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
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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
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| UpdatedAdelaide 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
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| UpdatedBob 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
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| UpdatedPresident 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
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| UpdatedWith 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
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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
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| UpdatedThe 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
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| UpdatedAlan 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
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| UpdatedWith 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
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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
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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
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Topics: wetlands, environment, sugar, agricultural-crops, rural, alberton-4207
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Topics: wetlands, environment, sugar, agricultural-crops, rural, alberton-4207
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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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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
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| UpdatedWhile 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