SOUTH AUSTRALIA
It's the nuclear-waste facility that few people know about - 21 barrels of medium- to high-level radioactive material stored in a tin shed in South Australia's Outback paradise. The waste is in the heart of Arkaroola, the Outback wilderness sanctuary the State Government hopes will one day be included on the World Heritage list.
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A bushfire that burned more than 5700 hectares of scrub in the state's South-East also caused more than $500,000 worth of damage, destroying pasture, fences and stock.
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Gentle giants of the rocky reef are the focus of a statewide snorkelling survey.Reef Watch is recruiting volunteers for the latest survey of South Australia's largest reef fish, the western blue groper, which can grow up to 1.7m in length and live for 50 years.
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South Australian dairy cattle studs have proved their worth following the Semex-Holstein Australia On-Farm Competition south-eastern Australia finals and the Semex-Jersey
Australia Great Southern Challenge.
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World-first 3D mapping technology is creating a new wave of cave exploration, giving researchers and the public unprecedented access to sites of global significance. CSIRO researchers used the new 3D mapping technology to explore the Koonalda Cave in South Australia, near the western border, for the SA Museum earlier this month.
Pictures: Capturing the Beauty of Life Through a Microscope.
Fight for the Murray is proudly supporting this year’s Sounds by the River to raise awareness and celebrate our beautiful river. The 2013 event will be an Aussie Rock Extravaganza and is the biggest line up Sounds by the River has seen: Jimmy Barnes, Ian Moss, Dragon, Ross Wilson, Chocolate Starfish, John Swan (Swanee), Mamboobies and more.
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7News Adelaide is running a poll on their website home page; Would you eat genetically modified salmon?
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Crossing the Simpson Desert without an air conditioner, a map, GPS or mobile phone.
That was Marg Sprigg's experience fifty years ago, in 1962. 50 years later she has crossed it again.
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Aldinga resident Bill Jolley reckons he is blessed with stunning landscapes on his doorstep. His photograph of the jetty ruins at Port Willunga proves his point.
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AUSTRALIA
7News Adelaide is running a poll on their website home page; Would you eat genetically modified salmon?
http://au.news.yahoo.com/sa/home/
Crossing the Simpson Desert without an air conditioner, a map, GPS or mobile phone.
That was Marg Sprigg's experience fifty years ago, in 1962. 50 years later she has crossed it again.
www.abc.net.au/rural
Aldinga resident Bill Jolley reckons he is blessed with stunning landscapes on his doorstep. His photograph of the jetty ruins at Port Willunga proves his point.
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AUSTRALIA
A smell from a fish oil plant on Tasmania's East Coast has divided holiday makers and business owners.
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The federal coalition says there is a risk of a dangerous conflict in the Southern Ocean between Japanese whalers and the anti-hunt group Sea Shepherd.
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Victoria will be a hotter and drier place by mid-century, with more desert and fewer temperate regions because of the impacts of global warming, new scientific analysis has found.
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Cartoon characters such as the Paddle Pop lion and Freddo Frog are increasingly being used across media platforms to lure children to unhealthy foods and should be banned, a health coalition says.
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One of Australia's rarest birds, the Princess Parrot, was discovered on Newhaven Reserve, about 500 kilometres north west of Alice Springs earlier this year.
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Researchers are using termites to find precious metals beneath Australia's landscape.
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With volcanoes, ancient uplifts and a limestone coast, western Victoria's geological past has created a fantastic walking region.
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INTERNATIONAL
Chile has raised the alert level for the Copahue volcano to red, the highest possible, as seismic activity in the area increased overnight.
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Hundreds of dead Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas), also known as jumbo squid, have washed ashore on Capitola beach.
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Not so long ago, fracking was a technical term little known beyond the energy industry. Now it's coming to Hollywood, as the fierce battle between environmentalists and oil firms is played out in several forthcoming films.
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In a tiny corner of western Poland a forest of about 400 pine trees grow with a 90 degree bend at the base of their trunks - all bent northward. Surrounded by a larger forest of straight growing pine trees this collection of curved trees, or "Crooked Forest" is a mystery!
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Northwest Europe's threatened Bewick's swan population has been boosted by a bumper year for chicks. Numbers of the bird have declined dramatically since the 1990s.
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The federal coalition says there is a risk of a dangerous conflict in the Southern Ocean between Japanese whalers and the anti-hunt group Sea Shepherd.
www.sbs.com.au/news
Victoria will be a hotter and drier place by mid-century, with more desert and fewer temperate regions because of the impacts of global warming, new scientific analysis has found.
www.theage.com.au/victoria
Cartoon characters such as the Paddle Pop lion and Freddo Frog are increasingly being used across media platforms to lure children to unhealthy foods and should be banned, a health coalition says.
www.theage.com.au/national
One of Australia's rarest birds, the Princess Parrot, was discovered on Newhaven Reserve, about 500 kilometres north west of Alice Springs earlier this year.
www.abc.net.au/rural/
Researchers are using termites to find precious metals beneath Australia's landscape.
www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/
With volcanoes, ancient uplifts and a limestone coast, western Victoria's geological past has created a fantastic walking region.
www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/
INTERNATIONAL
Chile has raised the alert level for the Copahue volcano to red, the highest possible, as seismic activity in the area increased overnight.
www.abc.net.au/news
Hundreds of dead Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas), also known as jumbo squid, have washed ashore on Capitola beach.
news.nationalgeographic.com/news
Not so long ago, fracking was a technical term little known beyond the energy industry. Now it's coming to Hollywood, as the fierce battle between environmentalists and oil firms is played out in several forthcoming films.
www.reuters.com/article
In a tiny corner of western Poland a forest of about 400 pine trees grow with a 90 degree bend at the base of their trunks - all bent northward. Surrounded by a larger forest of straight growing pine trees this collection of curved trees, or "Crooked Forest" is a mystery!
www.trueactivist.com/forum
Northwest Europe's threatened Bewick's swan population has been boosted by a bumper year for chicks. Numbers of the bird have declined dramatically since the 1990s.
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