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Tuesday, 15th January 2013
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Farmers are being warned not to draw too much fresh water out of coastal aquifers, because they could become inundated with salt water.

The Conservation Council of SA has been awarded a $30,000 Natural Resource Management Community Grant to help its work towards unravelling the secrets of the western blue groper.

You are invited to comment on the concept statement for the preparation of a groundwater allocation plan for the Adelaide Plains.

Apartment blocks of up to four storeys could be built along the River Torrens.

Dozens of thirsty koalas struggling to cope with SA's recent hot, dry weather are badly injuring themselves as they search for water. Volunteer organisation Fauna Rescue SA is taking in up to 17 sick and injured koalas every day.

Entire shack communities in the path of rising sea levels may have to be moved in the same way as the flood-damaged Queensland town of Grantham, the SA Government warns.

The game is up for one of the world's worst agricultural pests, the diamondback moth, now scientists have revealed its "evolutionary trick".

Australia's crop dusting industry wants a national database to identify wind farm research sites and other aviation hazards.

Solution for wombats and fencing for farmers.
Yookamurra Sanctuary in South Australia is seeking volunteers to assist ecology staff with biodiversity surveys from February 11-23.
www.australianwildlife.org


AUSTRALIA
Bushfire stories from ABC.
www.abc.net.au

More than 250 scientists from the UN's chief science body are in Hobart this week to discuss the science of global warming before the release of their fifth paper later this year. 

We stand united with scientists, intellectuals, academics and forty other non-government organisations calling for a halt to the expansion of coal exports.

The push against big coal is growing. The NSW Nature Conservation Council and 24 other environmental groups and 15 academics have signed a joint statement calling for an end to Australia’s coal exports.

Everyone's talking about the heatwave - now let's kick off the conversation around what climate change has to do with it. Will you LIKE and SHARE this infographic to help tell the climate story?

A study into the health of people living near a coal mine has found many are suffering from lack of sleep.
au.prime7.yahoo.com

"Is it possible mining companies could contaminate the entire Great Artesian Basin or Murray Darling Basin? Then these massive reserves of water could no longer be used for either drinking nor agriculture. They could only be used exclusively for industrial purposes such as mining."

The NSW Minerals Council’s chief executive advocates stripping the Environmental Defenders Office of funding because, as he puts it, the EDO is ‘‘an organisation intent on using those funds to lodge legal challenges against decisions taken on behalf of taxpayers by the NSW government’’

In north-west New South Wales, where coal mining and coal seam gas exploration is taking hold, greenies and farmers are seeing eye to eye.

The Environment Protection Authority says lessons have been learnt during work to clean-up more than 100 years of contamination from Newcastle's former BHP steelworks site.

Western Australia's remote Kimberley has been recommended by the New York Times as one of the best places on the globe to visit.

In a small corner of the state of Victoria, the bush returns to life.
www.theage.com.au

The NT Parks and Wildlife Commission says it has seen an increase in the illegal trafficking of native wildlife from the Territory.

Queensland's surf lifesavers have treated nearly 8,000 swimmers for stings this summer as a result of a jellyfish plague which is affecting most of Australia's coastline.

Poul Holm is Professor of Environmental History at Trinity College, Dublin, and Academic Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, the research institute for the arts and humanities. His current research is on the history of marine animal populations.

With around 640,000 tonnes of fishing gear lost or discarded each year, ghostnets are a huge problem worldwide. Originating mainly from fisheries and Asia and Australia, ghostnets in Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria are among the highest concentration in the world and are threatening our marine turtles.

A feral cat is not a metaphor, it's a furry killing machine.


INTERNATIONAL
Tens of millions of people may be spared droughts and floods by 2050 if Earth-warming carbon emissions peak in 2016 rather than 2030, scientists say.

China, Mexico and other emerging economies are leading the fight against climate change by passing laws to cut carbon and raise energy efficiency.

Can you imagine a world without rhinos, elephants and tigers? Neither can we. But unfortunately the illegal wildlife trade is driving some of the world’s most iconic species to extinction.

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