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Saturday, 2nd February 2013
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
A stretch of the River Torrens has re-opened after a drop in the level of blue-green algae.

South Australia's new water minister has only been in office ten days, but he's come out swinging, blaming NSW for cuts to the Murray-Darling Basin Authority. Late last year, the NSW Government cut $16 million from its contributions to the MDBA, saying it needed to reduce spending everywhere.

Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy Tom Koutsantonis said South Australia tomorrow enters a new era of energy deregulation with lower prices and stronger consumer protection.

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) will begin monitoring low frequency noise around the Waterloo Wind Farm, in northern South Australia, later this year.

About 370 kilograms of fruit and vegetables have been seized at a random fruit fly roadblock in South Australia's Riverland.

A review of worldwide rainfall data has found the intensity of the heaviest downpours is increasing across the globe as temperatures rise. The research collated data from more than 8000 observation stations in the period from 1900 to 2009 and was led by the University of Adelaide's Dr Seth Westra.

Canola growers on SA’s Eyre Peninsula have added an estimated $20 million to their harvest cheques by switching to a variety with a different source of resistance to the blackleg disease. With GRDC funding, University of Melbourne School of Botany researchers last year identified disease resistance in new variety trial sites and commercial paddocks on the Lower EP.

A pelican has been spotted at the isolated Kulgera Roadhouse, near the South Australian and Northern Territory border. Thought to be a coastal bird, it's arrival more than 1000 kilometres from the sea, has baffled publican Julie Smith.

A thirsty koala has made the rare move of climbing down a tree before following a walker along suburban roads, drinking three bottles of water over an hour.

Young people will be targeted to have more awareness about the importance of keeping the environment clean in Roxby Downs.

A small crowd gathered at Point Sinclair, south of Penong on Saturday, January 19 for the official announcement of the establishment of the Point Sinclair Surfing Reserve.

The amount of water held in storage for South Australia has dropped to its lowest level in a decade for the start of February.

Up to 40,000 hectares of farming land on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula will be placed on the market by the receivers of the region's largest landholder.

Funding is currently available through the Native Vegetation Council for groups and individuals wanting to carry out large scale conservation and restoration projects aimed at enhancing biodiversity, protecting native flora and fauna or contributing to the long term sustainability of sensitive habitats.


AUSTRALIA
The Federal Government has submitted a report to UNESCO, outlining actions it is taking to preserve and protect the Great Barrier Reef.

"Activists all over Australia today took to the streets today demanding our government do better at keeping our Reef great. If our government won’t take action to protect the Great Barrier Reef, the Australian community must!"

Yesterday Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke proposed to expand the existing 1.4 million hectare Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area by more than 170,000 hectares. Two Bush Heritage reserves have been included in the nomination.

A compensation deal worked out between Chevron's Wheatstone project and commercial fishers off Onslow could be used as a blueprint for fishing operations disrupted by offshore oil and gas construction.

Scientists are conducting research on the NSW south coast to determine whether the destruction of seagrass beds is releasing large amounts of ancient carbon into the atmosphere.

Shell breaks its 10 year promise not to develop World Heritage Sites. The evidence of damage to the Great Barrier Reef continues to mount. This article by Andrew Jeremijenko provides further documentation. DEA has worked behind the scenes on this issue, corresponding with UNESCO on the impacts of coal mining on the catchments and the reef and by writing to Minister Burke.

NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell and his Queensland counterpart Campbell Newman are exposing communities to greater risk from extreme weather because of their refusal to accept climate change, according to Greens leader Senator Christine Milne.

Research has found floodplains across the Murray-Darling Basin are not recovering as well as expected after the recent drought.

The Federal Government has ordered a Japanese whaling vessel to get out of Australia's exclusive economic zone.

Last month was not just the hottest January on record for Australia – it was also the hottest for any month, smashing peaks that had stood since January 1932.

Around 500 people have attended a dawn ceremony to officially open Canberra's National Arboretum.

Australians will have even more opportunity to inform their fascination with one of the ocean's most magnificent creatures. A new online map is helping researchers to monitor sea turtle nesting sites around the world.

New research has shed light on Australia's mysterious Argyle diamonds, which are naturally pink in colour.

Lanternfish are generally the most abundant group of fishes caught during trawls of the mid-water (mesopelagic) and deep (bathypelagic) regions of the ocean.


INTERNATIONAL
The US is consuming energy considerably more efficiently and with lower emissions than just five years ago thanks to a slew of modern technologies that are changing decades-old patterns.

BARACK OBAMA is certainly talking the talk on climate change - promising to put the fight against global warming at the heart of his second term. What's more surprising is that the US - historically, the world's biggest emitter - actually seems to be walking the walk.

The Republic of Congo has just announced creation of a new national park that protects some 15,000 western lowland gorillas. Ntokou-Pikounda National Park also provides safe harbor for an estimated 800 elephants and 950 chimpanzees, as well as a remote swamp WCS researchers call the "Green Abyss."

Germany and six other EU nations hold the key to the decision on a rescue plan for the world's biggest carbon market after prices slumped due to record oversupply.

Chinese environmental groups warn that government plans for a slew of hydroelectric dams on the pristine Salween (Nu) river - often called the Grand Canyon of the east for its deep valleys and sweeping views - could jeopardise biodiverse ecosystems and indigenous cultures, and lead to potentially catastrophic seismic events.

Alaska cleanup crews last year found some beaches covered with polystyrene foam that floated across the Pacific from the 2011 Japanese tsunami and threatens wildlife, a state official told legislators on Tuesday.

The city administration of Padang, West Sumatra, is striving to fight against the popular trade of endangered sea turtle eggs by cooperating with the police and the Natural Resource Conservation Agency.

A Dutch court has rejected a bid by Nigerian farmers to hold Shell responsible for oil damage to their villages, in a case that environmental groups had hoped would set a precedent for global corporate responsibility.

Two-thirds of Britain's 337 species of common larger moths have experienced a substantial decline over the past four decades, a survey has shown.

Keep rainforests – they drive the planet's winds.

Lights out – France to force shops and offices to go dark overnight. French light pollution law is expected to save 250,000 tonnes of C02 a year.

North America Has Capacity to Store 500 Years of CO2 Emissions.

Inside these transparent shells you'll find sea fireflies, amazing bioluminescent creatures that inhabit coastal waters of Japan.

The US Geological Survey has released a new selection of interesting images from the Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 satellites showing the Earth is all its glorious colour.


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