SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Bight Petroleum is proposing extensive seismic testing and potential deep water drilling in the ecological hotspot of the Kangaroo Island pool and canyon area. We have only a few days before environment minister Tony Burke decides on allowing and/or placing conditions on the proposed seismic testing component.
Another algal bloom has occurred in the Torrens Lake less than a month after the State Government committed $1 million to fix the problem.
A stronger than expected mid-week cool change will help to soften a hot week in Adelaide.
A few hundred hectares of land was burnt near the town of Finniss south of Adelaide on Friday afternoon. The grass and scrub fire started around midday and was contained by eight Friday night. It left 330 hectares of land burnt, including cropping country and 150 hectares of vineyards.
Researchers say mosquito numbers are set to drop dramatically this year, as the heat and lack of recent rain are slaughtering the pest. University of SA researcher, Stephen Fricker, has already found lower than average numbers of the insect in catchment areas.
Here is your chance to get your hands dirty and help us look after a bit of South Australia! Lots of jobs to suit everyone young and old. No experience required; just an enjoyment of being out in the bush and willing to help look after our 'natural history'.
The Nature Conservation Society of SA celebrates 50 years.
AUSTRALIA
Tasmanian police investigating a bushfire in the Upper Derwent Valley say they will charge a man for leaving a campfire unattended.
Red Cross is accepting monetary donations to help people in Tasmania as they begin the process of rebuilding their lives.
Tasmanian police investigating a bushfire in the Upper Derwent Valley say they will charge a man for leaving a campfire unattended.
Conservationists warn toxic canisters found washed up on Queensland beaches could be deadly to marine life on the Great Barrier Reef. The containers of deadly aluminium phosphide have been found on five central Queensland beaches, as well as other parts of the coast between Torres Strait and the Gold Coast.
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Fisheries officers in W.A. have suspended the hunt for several large sharks considered a threat to swimmers at popular South West beaches.
The threat to the Great Barrier Reef from massive coal port developments has been featured on French television, in a sign of growing international concern for the future of the world’s largest coral reef.
www.abc.net.au/news
Fisheries officers in W.A. have suspended the hunt for several large sharks considered a threat to swimmers at popular South West beaches.
Australia is in the midst of a heat wave. In and of itself, that's nothing special. We have heatwaves all the time. But it is getting hotter. Climate change is making things worse. What Australia – and the world – is seeing is weather on steroids.
Climate Change appears to be intensifying the El Nino events in the past few decades. El Nino generally causes drought in Australia and east Pacific, but wet conditions in the Western Pacific.
A device being developed by the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry is helping cane farmers to spray herbicides more effectively.
INTERNATIONAL
8 reasons why Shell can't be trusted in the Arctic.
8 reasons why Shell can't be trusted in the Arctic.
Green schemes to fight climate change by producing more bio-fuels could actually worsen a little-known type of air pollution and cause almost 1,400 premature deaths a year in Europe by 2020.
Scientists have captured footage of an elusive giant squid, estimated to have grown as large as eight metres long, that roams the depths of the Pacific Ocean.
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