Environment
Conservation
Environment department investigates potential chemical spill at super dump site
Queensland government environment inspectors are investigating a spill from an explosives storage plant beside a controversial proposed super dump at Ipswich.
- by Tony Moore
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Energy
NSW riled by lack of 'fit and proper' test for offshore gas venture
Companies exploring for energy off the NSW coast should be subject to the same "fit and proper person test" as those on land, the Berejiklian government says
- by Peter Hannam
Animals
Fast as a racing car, a falcon can zigzag after prey at 15 g
The bird as a hunter is not a dumb meteorite screaming from the skies but a skilled navigator that makes split-second adjustments.
- by Ben Guarino
South-east Queensland
'They might just disappear': warning over 'punk' turtle's future
Queensland's rare Mary River turtles are reaching pension age with very few teenagers to rejuvenate the species in a critical 'Night of the Living Dead' scene.
- by Tony Moore
Public service
'A fantastic opportunity': How buying a fishing licence could save Queensland dugongs
Gillnets trap 20,000 sharks, turtles and dugongs each year. WWF wants donations to buy the last gillnet licence and halt gillnetting in far north Queensland.
- by Tony Moore
Science
Underwater volcanic craters and rich rocky reefs found off NSW coast
A wonderland of extinct volcano craters, ancient river beds and rocky reefs teeming with life has been found just off the NSW coast.
- by Peter Hannam
Opinion
In praise of the pepper tree
The house on the corner of our street had huge, rounded, drooping pepper trees growing in the chook yard and hanging over the dirt footpath.
- by Liz Low
Animals
Japanese whalers return home with massive whale catch
Three Japanese whaling ships return to their home port with 333 minke whales following a hunting trip to Antarctica that attracted international condemnation.
Water
'Absurd': Veteran environmentalist aims to stir Warragamba wall debate
Is lifting the dam wall primarily a flood-mitigation exercise or a way to unlock more development in the Hawkesbury-Nepean floodplain?
- by Peter Hannam
Farming
Pesticide impact on prawns in Queensland must be heeded: Reef scientist
The CSIRO's latest lab tests showing pesticides kill prawn larvae should be heeded immediately, a chief scientist from James Cook University says.
- by Tony Moore
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Research
Pesticides killing prawn larvae in early warning for $80m industry
CSIRO research shows three pesticides used on farms are killing tiger prawn larvae in a dramatic early warning to Queensland's prawn industry.
- by Tony Moore