Thursday, 10th January 2013
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
The Environment Department is allowing around 50,000 native animals including rare and vulnerable species to be killed each year, prompting calls for a review of its permit system.
Government to assess KI oil exploration.
Skiing will be banned at 28 sites along the River Murray under a plan to reduce riverbank erosion. The plan, which has State Government backing, targets many popular waterski areas, from Goolwa to the Victoria border.
The Point Lowly Peninsula is the only known place in the world where hundreds of thousands of Giant Australian Cuttlefish gather to breed. We need your help to urge the State Government of South Australia to protect this wildlife phenomenon from proposed industrial impacts.
The horrific bushfires blazing across southern Tasmania not only caused widespread damage to residents, properties and bushland, but have also put the lives of thousands of animals at risk including pets, farm animals and wildlife.
Australia has suffered through its hottest day on record, and more heat waves are forecast. If we want to spare our children worse to come, we need to stop creating greenhouse pollution.
WWF-Australia today called on Queensland's Acting Premier, Jeff Seeney, to reveal the Government's plan to avert a potential environmental disaster at the Yabulu Nickel Refinery, near Townsville.
Three Sea Shepherd ships have left New Zealand for the Southern Ocean ready to do battle in the activist group's biggest Antarctic summer campaign against Japanese whaling.
The number of farmers in Australia has fallen by 40 per cent in a single generation, according to data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Waste in Australia is growing to around 44 million tonnes— the equivalent of more than 2000 kilograms for every Australian per year. An exciting new partnership between Social Firms Australia and e-waste recycling company MRI allows companies and local government to meet the new requirements of the National Waste Policy while being socially responsible.
For over 30 years, Lark Quarry in central Queensland has been regarded as the world’s only evidence of a dinosaur stampede. This is all about to change, however, due to a recent study which suggests that the tracks were made by swimming and wading dinosaurs, rather than those running on land.
A rare light show through the waves on the NSW coast is the focus of this week's reader photo.
Last year was the warmest on records going back to 1895 for the 48 contiguous US states and the second-worst for weather extremes including drought, hurricanes and wildfires, according to a US report.
Pictures: Centralia Mine Fire, at 50, Still Burns with Meaning
The people of Kangaroo Island last night were rejoicing a Federal Government decision to delay an oil exploration venture they fear will damage its pristine environment.
A breeding program for endangered great apes at Adelaide Zoo has been dealt a blow after one of the zoo's Sumatran orangutans gave birth to a stillborn baby.
Strict new rules are driving visitors out of popular holiday haunt Innes National Park, according to nearby residents who say national parks chiefs are destroying its appeal.
A new study published in December investigating the speed and direction that waste travels across the sea has uncovered worrying results.
The Flinders Ranges is expected to get a boost in recreational vehicle (RV) tourism with the installation of black waste disposal points at Quorn and Hawker.
Cleland Wildlife Park is once again offering school holiday activities for the whole family.
Amateur photographer Tom Hassell, described his picture at Port Elliot's Boomer Beach as "one in a million" when an unassuming surfer was joined by three finned thrill-seekers.
Local ranger Steve Johnson has issued a reminder to dog owners that their pets must be on a lead inside the recreation zone in the Mt George Conservation Park near Bridgewater.
AUSTRALIA
Bushfire stories from around the nation.
www.abc.net.au
A fire which is burning out of control in Tasmania's south-west wilderness has destroyed almost 50,000 hectares of the World Heritage Area.
Bushfire stories from around the nation.
www.abc.net.au
A fire which is burning out of control in Tasmania's south-west wilderness has destroyed almost 50,000 hectares of the World Heritage Area.
Conservationists say they are deeply concerned about the death of two whales off the central Queensland coast.
Greens leader Christine Milne has backed an anti-coal activist whose actions temporarily wiped more than $300 million from the value of Whitehaven Coal, arguing it was part of a "long and proud history" of civil disobedience.
The weather bureau says a tropical cyclone off the West Australian coast will delay the onset of the monsoon period in the Northern Territory.
Dingo activists says they are extremely disturbed about the death of two dingo pups on Fraser Island.
Rick Farley was a pioneer in Australia's land management history. He headed the Cattlemen's Union and the National Farmers Federation. But in a rather unconventional life, he also co-founded National Landcare.
INTERNATIONAL
The Burma-India border region has been shaken by a strong 5.9-magnitude earthquake.
The Burma-India border region has been shaken by a strong 5.9-magnitude earthquake.
An asteroid 275 metres-wide will pass by Earth tomorrow, but scientists say a collision won't happen - at least until 2036.
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