SOUTH AUSTRALIA
One-off rebates on South Australian water bills came into effect yesterday after the State Government increased water prices last year to pay for the desalination plant.
Honey production across Australia is down by as much as a third this year due to a lack of spring rain. South Australia is the worst affected by the dry conditions with the state's honey crop predicted to be 60 per cent less than last year.
Several states are preparing for high temperatures and serious fire danger in coming days as a heatwave crosses the south east of the country.
Resting in around 30 metres of water off the South Australian coast near the township of Yankalilla, the Hobart is a purpose sunk wreck for local divers that is a protected home to a large variety of marine life.
A new $173,000 project aimed at respecting Aboriginal connection to the Sea Country and exploring future employment opportunities for Aboriginal people to work in the coastal and marine environment has been initiated by the State Government.www.pir.sa.gov.au/pirsa/media
Trees for Life have a Carbon Calculator on their home page; check out your footprint.AUSTRALIA
Scientists analysing Australian rocks have discovered traces of bacteria that lived a record breaking 3.49 billion years ago, a mere billion years after Earth formed.www.watoday.com.au/
Former Greens leader Bob Brown says fear of a diplomatic fallout is preventing Australia from standing up to Japan on whaling.www.abc.net.au/news
The Premier Barry O'Farrell has talked down the impact of coal seam gas drilling under homes and other properties in Sydney's south-west.Egg industry plans to kick-start the year with a new national quality assurance trademark for free-range eggs have been taken back to the drawing board.
An environmental audit of high risk industries has found several Hunter businesses were not complying with regulations.
Water restrictions have been lifted across south-east Queensland, with the State Government saying dams across the region are at more than 90 per cent of capacity.
The proposal to eliminate what has been called 'green tape' would constitute a massive erosion of environmental standards, writes Ian Lowe.
Canberrans are recycling about 10 tonnes of computers and televisions each day as part of a free e-waste dumping scheme.
A Central Queensland University (CQU) researcher says dingoes may be more similar to other wild dogs like wolves, than domestic dogs.
INTERNATIONAL
The U.S. Coast Guard and Royal Dutch Shell were fighting 70 mile-per-hour winds and 40-foot swells as they tried to assess damage to a floating oil drilling ship grounded on a remote Alaskan island.
A patent application from the computing giant Apple claims to be able to store wind power as heat, and then release it on demand to generate electricity.
A US ethanol glut is causing some biofuels producers to go full circle by diverting their corn from fuel production towards food products such as energy bars and fish food, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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