SOUTH AUSTRALIA
The Energy Supply Association of Australia expects an upgrade of ElectraNet's power infrastructure will lead to more investment in wind energy in South Australia.
South Australia's largest company, Santos, posted record revenues of $3.2 billion for the past year, underpinned by good oil production in the state's Far North.
After a reasonable start to the growing season on the Eyre Peninsula and a positive outlook from farmers, many were disappointed with their final yield results.
The Flinders Ranges and Mount Remarkable Councils will receive state government funding to help the region safely recover and dispose of electronic waste.
A Sea Lion reportedly attacked a man at the Isles of St Francis off of Ceduna recently.
Private forest growers have used a parliamentary inquiry to raise concerns about Tasmania's forest peace deal.
Tasmanian plantation farmers facing uncertainty with the collapse of the timber company Gunns are considering legal action.
The RSPCA says it wont support a cull of wild horses in the Kimberley of Western Australia until all options for their removal are discussed.
Melbourne Zoo has a new addition with the long-awaited arrival of an Asian elephant calf.
The New South Wales Farmers Association is calling for a bounty on dead wild dogs and foxes similar to that introduced in Victoria. Under the Victorian Government's bounty, hunters are paid $10 for a fox scalp or $100 for a wild dog pelt.
A drill and poison have been used to vandalise a river red gum worth more than $26,000 in the latest tree attack in the Glenelg East area.
Kangaroo Island may have created a first with its protests about seismic testing off the west cost of the island.
The Environment Protection Authority is getting tough on illegal dumping of wastewater from riverboat sinks and showers.
Noisy and destructive little corellas have descended on the Fleurieu Peninsula town of Old Noarlunga for the summer to the disdain of local residents.www.abc.net.au
Feral cats numbers are increasing in Andamooka and the local rubbish tip is a significant source of food for the animals.
Feral cats numbers are increasing in Andamooka and the local rubbish tip is a significant source of food for the animals.
The Broken Hill Golf and Country Club is considering applying for a permit to cull kangaroos, which it says are damaging the course.
AUSTRALIA
The Federal Environment Minister has interrupted his holidays to travel to Hobart and warn Legislative Councillors the forest peace deal could collapse if it is not resolved quickly.
The Sydney Morning Herald has revealed that NSW is at greater risk from "fracking" as energy companies push to set up gasfields in suburbs according to NSW's Chief Scientist.
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The Opposition's climate spokesman, Greg Hunt says the Federal Government's rollout of the Carbon Farming Initiative is turning into a farce.
A group of Queensland farming families is launching a last-ditch effort to stop the southern hemisphere's biggest coal mine being built on their land.
Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett has, for the first time, drawn a strong link between his proposed gas hub at James Price Point and vast onshore shale gas deposits in the Kimberley’s Canning Basin.
100th national park proclaimed in Western Australia.
A sheep station owner, on the edge of the Nullarbor, says he is facing possible closure because of "plague-like" proportions of wild dogs.
The State Government has announced plans to re-stock mulloway off the WA coast.
An assistant police commissioner is denying suggestions local officers are be used as a defacto security service for coal seam gas companies.
The company behind a proposed underground uranium mine in the Northern Territory says it hopes to start operations within two years.
The Victorian Government has announced a crack-down on protesters who trespass in operating logging coupes.
The Western Australian Agriculture Minister says a new policy framework on inland drainage will only succeed with the help of landholders.
Greens Leader Christine Milne has lamented the lack of urgency in the debate about climate change in Australia – despite the recent heat-wave across the continent – and said she predicted that both mainstream parties would seek to avoid the issue in the upcoming Federal election.
When it comes to flora and fauna Australia is one of the most diverse countries in the world with around 10 per cent of all global species found here. But as the planet warms, climate scientists say the rare and threatened species stand little chance of survival.
Scientists in Vietnam have identified a new bright-blue lizard hiding in plain sight.
New bus corridors such as the line seen here running through the city center have helped Mexico City clearits traffic-clogged streets and earn the Sustainable Transport Award.
New data from scientists at NASA and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) now indicate that 2012 capped the hottest decade on record for global temperatures.
The first drill sample ever collected on Mars will come from a rockbed shot through with unexpected veins of what appears to be the mineral gypsum.
The Murray-Darling, Australia's largest river basin, is in environmental and agricultural decline – but a large cross-state water experiment could set a global example.
Jeff Hansen, Australian director of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a man who believes nature represents the grandest show on earth - it is our life support system and our very survival depends on it.
Rain is continuing to tumble down around North Queensland and the weather bureau is predicting more to come as the monsoon trough deepens over the Gulf by the weekend. Nowhere is it more welcome than in the Etheridge Shire where many graziers are still reeling with the impact of devastating fires late last year.
INTERNATIONAL
How Alberta Will Fight Fracking Folk Hero Jessica Ernst. In famous flaming water case, regulator to argue 'no duty of care' to landowners or groundwater.
How Alberta Will Fight Fracking Folk Hero Jessica Ernst. In famous flaming water case, regulator to argue 'no duty of care' to landowners or groundwater.
Tigers are thriving in the forestsof southern India, thanks to the absence of organised poaching gangs there.
A South Korean court has ordered a $694 million payout to victims of the country's worst oil spill, which fouled miles of coastland in 2007 and decimated local fishing and tourism industries.
You could call them early bloomers: In 2010 and 2012, plants in the eastern U.S. produced flowers earlier than at any point in recorded history, a new study says.
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