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Saturday, 26th January 2013
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
The massive Super Trawler FV Abel Tasman is back and could soon be operating by stealth in Australian waters. 

OneSteel has apologised to the Whyalla community for increased emissions from the local steelworks in recent weeks.

Mining company Oz Minerals plans to spend $58 million on exploration in 2013, mostly in South Australia.

New fee structures for exporting fresh produce from Australia have been met with anger in the Riverland.

Join Reef watch SA in snorkel surveys across South Australia to help us with a snapshot of western blue groper and other reef fish.

Free workshop and field trip. Shorebirds of Gulf St Vincent. Mawson Lakes, Sunday 10 February. 3:00 - 6:00pm. For more information or to RSVP: chris.purnell@birdlife.org.au.

AWC’s Dakalanta Wildlife Sanctuary in SA is seeking volunteers to assist ecology staff with its annual biodiversity survey from 9-24 March 2013.

River Murray Weekly Flow Report


AUSTRALIA
Oyster farmers in the Hawkesbury, north of Sydney, are locked in a desperate bid to stop the spread of a disease that is killing off huge numbers of shellfish.

The Whitehaven coal project, one of three open pit coal mines proposed for Leard State Forest, would clear thousands of hectares of native habitat, including 500 hectares of critically endangered White Box-Gum woodland. 

After more than three years in administration, southern Queensland's Cubbie Station will be handed over a Chinese-led consortium today.

The Supreme Court in Brisbane will hear a judicial review of the Queensland Government's approval of a $7 billion coal mine in the state's southern inland.

Researchers say there are fewer species still to be discovered than previously thought and most can be saved. New research has quelled fears that millions of animal and plant species will be extinct before they are actually discovered.

Public meetings soon will discuss how to put more water down the Murrumbidgee River near Gundagai, to deliver flows under the Murray Darling Basin Plan.

Woylie numbers in a sanctuary near Manjimup have quadrupled in two years. The critically endangered animals have flourished at Perup Sanctuary since 41 woylies were released into the 420ha predator-free enclosure in 2010.

A new research project started by the Northern Territory's Department of Primary Industry is attempting to discover whether carbon farming could be economically viable for northern pastoralists.

The Nature Conservation Council NSW have published this fantastic map of projects over the whole state (coal and gas).maps.google.com

Climate change signals the end of the social sciences.

Last week 10 people (Trust for Nature staff, scientists, family and friends) participated in a Hooded Scaly-foot survey on the Trust's property Korrak Korrak on the Avoca Plains.


INTERNATIONAL
The collapse of Europe's controversial market for carbon emissions rights is "an extremely serious" matter and an EU Comission proposal to freeze a related auction for 2013-2015 is simply a "patch" for the problem, a French economist warned lawmakers on Wednesday.

About 15,000 crocodiles have reportedly escaped from a farm in South Africa's far north amid heavy rains and flooding.

The Philippines says it plans to sue the United States military for damages after an American warship ran aground on a coral reef in a protected marine park in the country's south-west.

In the midst of the domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil-and-gas drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling sick and dying. While scientists have yet to isolate cause and effect, many suspect chemicals used in drilling and hydrofracking (or “fracking”) operations are poisoning animals through the air, water, or soil.

Needing 100 anti-wind protesters by next week and apparently unable to find them, a mysterious firm advertised a “quick and easy $20″ on Craigslist.

In a serendipitous sighting in the North Atlantic, researchers have discovered a group of the cetaceans that seem to have taken in an adult bottlenose dolphin with a spinal malformation.

The bright blue morpho butterfly could hold the key to the next generation of security technology that protects items such as bank notes, documents and tickets.

Food waste is a massive global problem that has negative humanitarian, environmental and financial implications. The up side: with relative ease and a few simple changes to our habits, we can significantly shift this paradigm.

Researchers from computer firm IBM say they have invented a new non-toxic gel that can kill deadly drug-resistant bacteria by cutting through the sludge that shelters them and attacking the germ’s cell membrane. 

Scientists in Sweden have found that dung beetles use the Milky Way to orientate themselves as they roll their balls of muck along the ground.


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