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'Scandal': NSW coal power plants will kill thousands before they close

'Scandal': NSW coal power plants will kill thousands before they close

Air pollution from NSW's five coal-fired power stations carry a "substantial health burden", including leading to an estimated 279 deaths a year with thousands more to come before they close.

  • by Peter Hannam

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Dead whale had 115 plastic cups, 2 flip-flops in its stomach
Animals

Dead whale had 115 plastic cups, 2 flip-flops in its stomach

Researchers found 115 plastic cups, four plastic bottles, 25 plastic bags, 2 flip-flops, a nylon sack and more than 1000 other assorted pieces of plastic in the stomach of a whale that washed ashore in eastern Indonesia.

Saving food from deep burial
Waste

Saving food from deep burial

Katy Barfield once rescued 27 tonnes of yellowfin tuna from deep burial.

  • by Jewel Topsfield
‘Impending plasticide’: Emergency tax tipped as waste crisis deepens
Waste

‘Impending plasticide’: Emergency tax tipped as waste crisis deepens

Australia’s waste crisis is tipped to deepen, with global wealth manager Credit Suisse predicting the federal government will intervene within two years.

  • by Jewel Topsfield
Bush turns its back on support for logging native forests
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Biodiversity

Bush turns its back on support for logging native forests

Harvesting of native forests is overwhelmingly unpopular, including in rural and regional communities, according to a leaked study commissioned by the timber industry.

  • by Peter Hannam
'Champion' needed to break slow SEQ water quality decline: ecologists
Brisbane River

'Champion' needed to break slow SEQ water quality decline: ecologists

Despite some improvements in some rivers Brisbane residents remain apathetic about being able to make improvements to the Brisbane River.

  • by Tony Moore
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Newcastle City Council, UTS join the stampede into solar energy
Renewables

Newcastle City Council, UTS join the stampede into solar energy

Two new solar farms add to the growing surge in the renewable energy source in NSW – and abroad.

  • by Peter Hannam
The number one recycling mistake Australians are still making
Waste

The number one recycling mistake Australians are still making

The most common recycling mistake made by Australians is to throw soft plastics, such as bread bags, into the kerbside recycling bin.

  • by Jewel Topsfield
Top scientists blast NSW government over brumbies
Science

Top scientists blast NSW government over brumbies

A conference of eminent scientists in Canberra has condemned the NSW government for preventing the culling of brumbies.

  • by Steve Evans
10 million animals a year die from tree clearing in NSW, report finds
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Farming

10 million animals a year die from tree clearing in NSW, report finds

The destruction of habitat on private land is pushing more species towards threatened or endangered status, such as the greater glider or even koalas, WWF-Australia.

  • by Peter Hannam
'Inexplicable': Power plants' pollution limits weak by world standards
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Coal

'Inexplicable': Power plants' pollution limits weak by world standards

Major coal-fired power stations in NSW have pollution controls that were so weak they are akin those in "fairly under-developed third world countries", a US energy expert claims.

  • by Peter Hannam