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Sunday, 6th January 2013

 SOUTH AUSTRALIA

 Cuttlefish Country documentary film trailer now online. The mystery of the vanishing cuttlefish and the extent of the expansion plans for the mining industry around Spencer Gulf.

A variety of case studies from homeowners all over the country, via Sustainable House Day and an online eco-community.

The Bureau of Meteorology's Annual Climate Statement, released Thursday, highlights a climate shift from the wetter and cooler La Niña conditions in the first half of the year to the drier and warmer conditions in the second half.


The Bureau of Meteorology says the dry spell that has affected much of Australia's south has not been of sufficient duration to be considered a drought.

From ice blocks filled with meat, fish or fruit to water misters and wading pools these are just some of the methods zookeepers at Adelaide Zoo use to keep its animal residents cool during scorching weather. Top tips for hot weather animal care.
AUSTRALIA
There were more than 200 individual breaches of national and international air pollution standards in the Hunter Valley during 2012, a cumulative analysis of air quality monitoring data has revealed.

The Baillieu government has failed in its legal bid to overturn a ban by the Commonwealth on its plans to return cattle grazing to the Alpine National Park.

Lorraeme Shume describes her work producing an illustrated anatomical atlas of the skeleton of Nimbacinus dicksoni. This is a 15 million-year-old thylacine and a relative of the Tasmanian tiger.

A newly-discovered comet approaching the sun might be visible from earth twice in 2013.


INTERNATIONAL


Cleanup crews in Fukushima Prefecture have dumped soil and leaves contaminated with radioactive fallout into rivers. Water sprayed on contaminated buildings has been allowed to drain back into the environment. And supervisors have instructed workers to ignore rules on proper collection and disposal of the radioactive waste.

Chinese state media says the country has resumed construction of a nuclear power plant suspended after the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

Officials have cancelled a tsunami warning for parts of southern Alaska and coastal Canada.

Fifteen years after its painful birth in Kyoto, Japan, the world's first legally binding agreement to limit emissions of greenhouse gases ended this week.
A Bluefin tuna has sold for a record $US1.76 million ($A1.69 million) at a Tokyo auction, nearly three times the previous high set last year.

The blowflies and flesh flies that settle on dead animals aren't just feasting on the carrion — they're sampling their DNA.

Snow-covered deserts are rare, but that’s exactly what the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite observed as it passed over the Taklimakan Desert in western China on January 2, 2013.
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