SOUTH AUSTRALIA
(Australia and International stories will be updated Saturday)
The entire Lucky Bay shack community may have to be relocated due to rising sea levels, the South Australian Government has warned.
SA Water will start turning on the salt interception schemes at Bookpurnong and Loxton this week. The schemes use bores and pipes to catch water with high levels of salt, before it runs into the River Murray.
$20 trillion shale oil find surrounding Coober Pedy 'can fuel Australia'
There will be a simulated phylloxera outbreak in South Australia's Riverland, after this year's vintage. The Riverland Viticultural Technical Group met the Phylloxera and Grape Industry Board last week, to begin planning for the exercise.
The Invasive Animals CRC has recently embarked on a further five years of work under the Commonwealth Government’s Cooperative Research Centres program. Some new PestSmart resources have been finalised and are now available on the web.
As native fauna joins the online sales boom, the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources is warning buyers to beware.
Lea Redfern talks to people who have succumbed to the unique charm of the playful and noisy sulphur-crested cockatoo. Despite its familiarity in our skies and homes, we have a lot to learn about this larrikin of the air.
Piccaninnie Ponds in South Australia's South-East will join the ranks of the world's most important wetlands.
Locals photographed the first elephant seal to be spotted along Robe's coastline in more than 10 years on December 5.
Dog owners are being asked to keep an eye on their pets when koalas are around following a spike in the number of koalas being attacked.
The Federal Government estimates there are now 18 million feral cats in Australia, and it's estimated they eat around five native animals each day.
A mining company in South Australia says it's found an oil field that's big enough to turn the country from an oil importer, to an oil exporter. Miner Linc Energy has released two independent surveys, saying there's up to 200 billion barrels of oil in a shale gas field near Coober Pedy.
Scientists are still grappling to find out if efforts to rid the Torrens Lake of toxic algal blooms are working.
BHP Billiton has released its half-yearly report, showing a drop in copper production at Olympic Dam.
The Green Carpenter Bee has become extinct in Victoria and mainland South Australia, probably as a result of land clearing and large wildfires. Kangaroo Island is its last foothold in southern Australia.
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