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Tuesday, 29th January 2013
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
The announcement of a significant shale oil resource in the Arckaringa Basin, in South Australia's far north, has seen a flurry of activity on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).

Wind turbine installations will probably stall in 2013 as policy uncertainty, financing difficulties and delayed grid connections weigh down on projects, Suzlon Energy Chairman Tulsi Tanti said.

University of Adelaide geologists have shed new light on the origin of Australia's largest delta, the Ceduna Delta, and the river systems which drained the continent millions of years before the Murray-Darling system came into existence.

New research has shed light on the landscape around the Nullarbor some 80 million years ago.

Historian and author Rob Linn has been working on documenting the history of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia, organiser of the Royal Adelaide Show, for the past four years.

Australians appear reluctant to pay more for fuel efficient vehicles, despite hybrid and electric vehicles become more accessible. More than 98 per cent of private new car buyers chose conventionally powered cars in 2012, with 96 per cent of fleet vehicle sales going to petrol, diesel or LPG fuelled vehicles.

Photographs of Babblers, Quailthrushes and Whipbirds, Wedgebills now online.


AUSTRALIA
Floods and fires, ABC Environment
www.abc.net.au


A fundraising appeal has been launched to help farmers repair fences damaged by recent fires across NSW. More than 3,500 kilometres of fencing has been destroyed.

Mercury was washed down drains into Botany Bay and released into the air on the site of Orica's Botany chemical plants, its former managers said.

The WA State Government has announced a fifth marine park and a new national park on the Kimberley coast.

The Wilderness Society has warmly congratulated Geoff Law on his receipt of an Order of Australia in today’s Honours list. “Geoff Law is an icon of the Australian conservation movement. His selfless and life long commitment to conservation in Tasmania, outstanding record of environmental protection, and abiding passion for wild places has and continues to be of great benefit to Tasmania and Australia.” 

The Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre is investigating the ecological role dingoes and free-ranging crossbreed dogs play in Australia, so they can be effectively managed.

Conservationists have accused the Baillieu government of locking the community out of more than 200 public wetlands across Victoria by giving priority to duck hunters.

Last year the state government implemented new laws in a bid to head off clashes between animal rights protesters and hunters during this year's duck shooting season.
Tasmania could become home to Australia's first commercial plant converting trees into the biofuel, ethanol.

CSIRO scientists are tracking disused fishing nets to understand how they are affecting marine life.

Two pygmy sperm whales have died after being washed ashore in wild weather on the New South Wales mid-north coast.

Residents living near Orica's former chemical plant at Port Botany in southern Sydney say an independent review of mercury contamination around the site does not go far enough.

Gemma Lee Steere has had a gutful of being stereotyped, misrepresented and tarred with the same brush, by animal activists and in mainstream media, as someone who doesn’t care about animals, and is doing something about it.

The horse plays a significant part in our national story. In this discussion we follow the horse through time, and around the world, in a celebration of the special relationships forged between humans and the noble equus.

Storm Stanford has some very peculiar room-mates. They are noisy, smelly and are taking up valuable space in her Petersham apartment. But it's not the noise and the smell that make them different to any other room-mates in the heart of Sydney, it is that Ms Stanford's room-mates are flying foxes.

A Canberra Times reader has provided this photograph of a brushtail possum joining in the celebrations for the nation's special day.


INTERNATIONAL
Solar power cheaper than coal: One company says it’s cracked the code.

Nélida Barajas restored a prairie on a 46,000-acre ranch in Mexico. In the end, she brought back a whole lot.

The energy big cities burn - mostly coal and oil to power buildings, cars and other devices - produces excess heat that can get into atmospheric currents and influence temperatures thousands of miles away, a new study found.

Perhaps the most interesting of the new vehicles unveiled at this year'sNorth American International Auto Show (NAIAS) is a new midsize SUV from Volkswagen that merges VW diesel with electric hybrid drive called the Cross Blue.

There seems to be no singular reason explaining why marine mammals such as the Gowanus dolphin and Queens' finback whale wander up New York city's rivers or strand on beaches. Each case is unique. But not all the city's marine mammal visitors suffer terrible fates.

A prominent Malaysian biologist on Saturday was named first chief of a UN scientific panel which aims to turn the world's spotlight on species loss, as a Nobel-winning counterpart has done for climate change.

2012's Biggest Moments in Science.



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