Environment
Sustainability
Sydney seawall edges closer but legal issues remain unresolved
Work to build a seawall to protect coastal residences along part of Sydney's northern beaches could start before legal and financial issues are resolved.
- by Peter Hannam
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Middle-aged men are always wrong: lunch with Sir Tim Smit
Sir Tim Smit talks about his vision for Anglesea's former mine, creative learning and the risks of sloppy optimism.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
Biodiversity
The fight over Australian logging goes global
The Wilderness Society has appealed to authorities in Europe and the US to crack down on timber it says may have been harvested illegally in Australia.
- by Nick O'Malley
SpaceX, NASA crew make 1st splashdown in 45 years
Two NASA astronauts returned to Earth on Sunday in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown, their capsule parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico. This was the first splashdown by U.S. astronauts in 45 years. (August 2)
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Darling disaster
Irrigators pushed for NSW 'primacy' over basin plan, more water access
NSW's main irrigator lobby group pressed the Berejiklian government to place the state's water plans above the federal law and sought to tap water earmarked for the environment.
- by Peter Hannam
Vanishing coast
Coast-dwellers ordered to evacuate after 30m of beach washed away
Erosion problems had been evident since the 1970s at Wamberal but state legislation had tied council's hands against a remedy.
- by Peter Hannam
Renewables
Printed solar panels a shining light for saving energy
An Australian breakthrough in lightweight solar panels that can turn any surface into an energy source could deliver a boost to local manufacturing.
- by Mike Foley
Animals
Seahorse males left holding (and feeding) the baby
Male seahorses transport nutrients to their developing babies in their pouches during pregnancy, a team from the University of Sydney has found.
- by Tim Barlass
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Biodiversity
Green groups call on Bunnings to extend Victorian timber ban to NSW
Environmental groups have called on Bunnings to extend to NSW its recent halt to sourcing native timber from Victoria's state forests, fearing supply will simply shift to the state's fire-hit forests.
- by Peter Hannam
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Biodiversity
NSW farmers accelerate land-clearing rates, doubling previous decade
Farmers in NSW are increasing the rate they clear land, taking advantage of looser native vegetation controls to more than double the pace of deforestation of the previous decade.
- by Peter Hannam
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Planning
Rose Bay golf course proposal 'would remove entire urban forest': planner
Royal Sydney Golf Club has put in a DA to Woollahra Council to remove 569 trees, which would decrease the canopy cover, even with its plan to plant 700 more, critics say.
- by Julie Power