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| UpdatedA major Hunter Valley mine expansion, Anglo American's Drayton South project, is rejected for the fourth time amid concerns it poses too many risks to the environment.
Topics: mining-industry, industry, mining-rural, environment, environmental-impact, singleton-2330, scone-2337, muswellbrook-2333
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Topics: land-pollution, water-pollution, animals-and-nature, environmental-impact, cowes-3922
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Topics: animals-and-nature, water-pollution, land-pollution, environmental-impact, cowes-3922
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| UpdatedHelium balloons are killing wildlife at one of Victoria's top nature tourism destinations, with an Australian fur seal the latest animal to be saved from a painful death caused by a burst balloon.
Topics: animals-and-nature, environmental-impact, environmental-health, water-pollution, human-interest, animals, land-pollution, cowes-3922
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| UpdatedThirty-five new sites of Aboriginal heritage significance are discovered on Tasmania's Tarkine coastline, renewing calls for the area to be declared a national park.
Topics: indigenous-culture, environmental-impact, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, environmental-management, government-and-politics, arthur-river-7330, tas
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| UpdatedAn Australian team of international scientists is hoping to discover whether meltwater is speeding up the disintegration of the Antarctic's glaciers.
Topics: climate-change, science-and-technology, environmental-impact, earth-sciences, research, antarctica
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The Opposition demands to know what led to an error that has caused construction on the Western Highway duplication in the state's west to halt.
Topics: road-transport, environmental-impact, environmental-management, aboriginal, ballarat-3350, buangor-3375, ararat-3377
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| UpdatedWhat does it take to service the 330 public toilets in some of the most remote and difficult places to get to in Tasmania.
Topics: national-parks, human-interest, offbeat, environmental-impact, tas, hobart-7000
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Rusting and unseaworthy boats that linger on Sydney Harbour and leak oil and fuel are threatening marine life and waterways, according to environmental and marine advocates.
Topics: environmental-impact, lifestyle-and-leisure, travel-and-tourism, environmental-management, human-interest, water-pollution, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedTasmania's giant kelp forests are almost extinct, a Senate inquiry into the impact of climate change on sea life is told.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, government-and-politics, climate-change, eaglehawk-neck-7179, tas, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedQueensland's land-clearing laws are preventing producers from setting up what could be a billion-dollar Manuka honey industry which would operate with minimal impact on the environment, beekeepers say.
Topics: agribusiness, food-and-beverage, food-processing, agricultural-crops, national-parks, environmental-impact, environmental-management, entomology, bundaberg-4670, maroochydore-4558, rainbow-beach-4581
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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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| 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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Thousands of dead bats drop from trees after temperatures top 45 degrees in parts of New South Wales.
Topics: animals, weather, environmental-impact, casino-2470, singleton-2330
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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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Hundreds of timber industry job losses could be offset with $45 million in government and private investment into a new national park in eastern Victoria, The Wilderness Society says.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, melbourne-3000, kinglake-3763, healesville-3777, marysville-3779, heyfield-3858
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| UpdatedAn environmental group is warning water quality in Macquarie Harbour is threatening the survival of an ancient skate species.
Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, fishing-aquaculture, environmental-management, environmental-impact, strahan-7468
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Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, environmental-impact, greens, lismore-2480, tenterfield-2372, yetman-2410
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A push to reduce single-use shopping bags on the New South Wales mid-north coast is gaining momentum.
Topics: pollution, environmental-impact, environmental-management, government-and-politics, local-government, lifestyle, community-and-society, nambucca-heads-2448
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| UpdatedMore than 100 flying foxes in Adelaide's Botanic Park are found dead in what ecologists say is a devastating result of the heatwave that has hit South Australia.
Topics: environmental-impact, weather, adelaide-5000
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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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| UpdatedBeverley O'Connor speaks to Brandon Barnes, a senior litigation analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence about the legal options for Native Americans who oppose the pipeline.
Topics: environmental-impact, indigenous-other-peoples, engineering, united-states